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The Upper House of the French Parliament approved a bilateral agreement with Ukraine today, following the Lower House's endorsement yesterday. Signed by Presidents Macron and Zelensky on February 16th, the agreement sets a financial support budget of 3 billion euros for 2024, marking a 43% increase from 2023. It covers cooperation in security and civilian sectors, including intelligence, counter-espionage, humanitarian...

What Happened:  An aid bill that would give Ukraine more money to support buying ammunition and supplies for their troops has been stalled in the House of Representatives for months. It has created immense pressure on the speaker, Mike Johnson, and the House to pass something soon. Johnson is facing pressure from members of his own party to create a plan...

Lead Up to Today's Actions: After the 12-13 March Ukrainian Freedom of Russian Legion raids into the settlements of Odnorobovka, Nekhoteevka and Spodaryushino in the Belgorod Region of Russia, Ukrainian forces warned Russian civilians in the area to seek shelter. Those threats appear to have materlized this morning as a massed drone strike and surface-to-surface fires impacted Belgorod proper. Ongoing Missile/Drone...

Early this morning, a drone strike targeted a Rosneft-owned oil refining facility in Ryazan, located in Western Russia, resulting in a series of three explosions and a fire. Around the same time, another attack hit an FSB building in Belgorod, Russia. The two strikes used two and three allegedly Ukrainian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in their respective attacks. Local authorities...

On March 12, the anti-Kremlin rebel Russian unit known as the Freedom of Russia Legion announced that they were engaged in a “special liberating operation” alongside other anti-Kremlin Russian volunteer units in the Belogrod and Kursk oblasts, as reported by Newsweek. Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma, and the political leader of The Freedom of Russia Legion,...