Ukraine

According to South Korea's defense minister, since last year, North Korea has shipped about 7,000 containers of ammunition and other military equipment to Russia.

The EU is considering approving a €5 billion fund to help Ukraine and using the excess profits from frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine's defense, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said.

Entrepreneurs used affordable loans to replenish working capital, for which banks allocated UAH 8. 7 billion.

The Ministry of Reintegration's hotline, which consists of 36 operators working around the clock, has processed more than 850,000 calls from Ukrainians since mid-2012 to address crisis issues faced by internally displaced persons, including status and benefits, as well as payments to families of prisoners of war.

Russia has organized pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, trying to demonstrate legitimacy by engaging foreign observers, but these "elections" are legally null and void and violate Ukrainian and international law, and Ukrainians in the occupied territories live under the threat of violence.

russia has launched a kamikaze drone attack on a military unit in unrecognized Transnistria to destabilize the region.

Five Ukrainian refugees, including children, were diagnosed with measles in a refugee center in Chisinau, Moldova, leading to the closure of the facility for 21 days.

President Zelenskyy held the meeting to discuss reports from the front, ammunition supplies, defense contracts, protection of critical infrastructure, and efforts to build defense borders.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed significant losses of Russian troops - more than 600 killed and 800 wounded during raids by the Russian Freedom Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion in the Belgorod and Kursk regions of Russia.

The government plans to reduce the number of vacant positions in government agencies by almost 19,300 to cut costs and prevent overstated salaries due to excessive vacancies.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis approves the training of about 50 Ukrainian pilots on F-16s at a military base in Romania, as well as the transit of weapons for Ukraine through Romania, donated by Finland.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine proposes to create search groups to find people who went missing during the war.

France condemns russia's illegal organization of the presidential elections in the occupied Ukrainian territories and separatist regions, which violates Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Senator Lindsey Graham and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Robert Needham discussed Ukraine's anti-corruption efforts with representatives of civil society organizations.

Ukraine's armed forces repelled 12 Russian attacks in the south, while Russian forces applied pressure using numerous attack drones and fired at least 14 bombs and missiles in Zaporizhzhia.

With American aid blocked, Western production slowing down, and stockpiles in Ukraine dwindling, the Czech Republic is using Cold War contacts to purchase ammunition for Ukraine from countries allied with Moscow.

The DOT has tightened requirements for the quality of meat, dairy products and sausages to be supplied to the Armed Forces.

The Russian "elections" held in the occupied Ukrainian territories violated Ukraine's sovereignty. They were based on repression and intimidation, Borrell said.

President Zelenskyy congratulated Prabowo Subianto on his election as President of Indonesia, invited Indonesia to participate in the upcoming peace summit, and expressed hope for continued fruitful bilateral relations.

Russia's war in Ukraine is approaching a "point of no return" with consequences for European countries, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal believes.

Ukraine seeks to establish itself as a future EU member in the areas of defense, energy, agriculture, raw materials, and digital technologies.

U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham arrived in Kyiv today to support Kyiv in its efforts to counter Russian aggression.

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security plans to close a loophole in the draft law on mobilization that allowed several people to register as guardians of one person with a disability to avoid the draft.

The Ukrainian government has allocated an additional UAH 5 billion for the purchase of drones to strengthen the country's defense capabilities against Russian aggression.

Over the next three days, wet weather is expected in Ukraine, with ice on the roads and fog in the western regions, with temperatures ranging from 4°C to 12°C.

The Government has approved the Plan for the Ukraine Facility, a 4-year, €50 billion EU assistance program aimed at implementing structural reforms based on European approaches and bringing Ukraine closer to EU membership, with the potential to receive about €16 billion this year.

Lithuania does not consider the March 15-17 presidential elections in russia to be a legitimate democratic expression of will due to repression, fraud, coercion, suppression of the opposition and independent media, and the absence of OSCE observers, which makes Vladimir Putin's new "government" lack any democratic legitimacy.

Ukraine will bring far more benefits to the EU than the costs of its accession process, making it a worthwhile investment for the bloc.

With the help of international partners, Ukraine will establish a Coordination Center for Environmental Damage Assessment to assess and document environmental damage caused by russian aggression in order to restore ecosystems and recover damages from russia.

Ukraine expects to start accession negotiations with the EU in the first half of 2024 after the European Council approves the negotiation framework.