The Ukrainian army announced on Tuesday that it had taken two more villages near the eastern town of Avdiyivka, which was captured by Russian forces earlier this month. A senior commander said troops had strengthened new defensive positions west of Avdiivka, the capture of which was Russia’s biggest military victory in nine months. Kyiv’s army said its troops had withdrawn from Siverny and Stepovoy after inflicting heavy casualties on Russian forces, a day after the Ukrainian army abandoned the village of Lastochkine.

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07:31 Last night, Russia attacked with S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from the occupied Donetsk region and 10 Shahed drones from the Russian Primorsky-Akhtar region, the Air Force of Ukraine reported.

Mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces and anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force destroyed 10 Shaheds in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, according to a Telegram post. The Ukrainian Air Force does not say what happened to the S-300 missiles launched by the Russians.

00:34Secret documents of the Kremlin – ​​”Kremlin Leaks” – disclosed to the Estonian website Delfi, reveal the allocation by the administration of Vladimir Putin of a budget worth one billion euros for the ideological control of the population of Russia and the annexed Ukrainian territories in order to re-elect him on March 17 through unprecedented propaganda, reports Le Pont.

“Kremlin Origins,” published by the Delfi website and an international media consortium, presents a detailed picture of the network of propaganda and censorship created by the Kremlin to influence every citizen of Russia and residents of the annexed territories of Ukraine.

A brief retelling of the last events of the war:

• The Russian army continues its advance into Ukraine after capturing the Avdiyiv Bastion and occupying more than 300 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since the beginning of the year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
• The President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Ihor Grosu believes that there is no threat of escalation or destabilization of the situation in Transnistria in the context of convening the “Congress of Deputies of All Levels” on Wednesday, the forum gathered in Tiraspol to make exceptional decisions.
• Russia is France’s main enemy “in information warfare and aggression on our territory,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanen said on Tuesday.
• Russia experienced a strange internet outage on Tuesday, with popular local networks such as Telegram and VKontakte suffering massive outages, while banned social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram partially returned to the internet after nearly two years of bans .
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico were greeted in Prague with boos and placards calling them “servants” of Vladimir Putin.
• The Ukrainian army said it shot down two Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers and four scouts.
• Steve Hall, the former head of the CIA’s operations in Russia, says President Vladimir Putin was right to predict that the United States would lose its “resoluteness” and stop supporting Ukraine.
• The team of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on Tuesday condemned the obstruction in organizing the politician’s funeral so that his supporters could say goodbye to him in Moscow.
• Vasyl Dubkov, the lawyer of Oleksii Navalny, was detained in Moscow. Dubkov, who last week accompanied the mother of the late opposition figure Lyudmila Navalna when she demanded that her son’s lifeless body be handed over to her, was arrested on Tuesday.
• The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that if European NATO members send troops to fight in Ukraine, a conflict between Russia and the North Atlantic alliance will become inevitable.
• The USA has announced that it will not send troops to fight in Ukraine. The United States will not send troops to fight in Ukraine, the White House said Tuesday, after French President Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of ​​sending ground troops a day earlier.
• French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne tried to defuse tensions on Tuesday over President Emmanuel Macron’s comments after he said Western countries could not rule out sending troops to Ukraine.
• Russia: Western diplomats pay tribute to opposition leader Nemtsov. About two dozen Western ambassadors paid their respects in Moscow on Tuesday at the site of the killing of dissident Boris Nemtsov, who was shot several times in the back in 2015, a few meters from the Kremlin.
• Dissident Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was sentenced by a Moscow court on Tuesday to two and a half years in prison for repeatedly condemning Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine.

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