We are avoiding our policy of the war in Ukraine and will be back soon with more updates.

Before you go, here’s a reminder of the lines today:

Our Editor of Security and Defense Deborah Haynes is in Ukraine and spoke with the convicts released for their country.

You can read what is here.

The EU is due to discuss a fresh set of sanctions against Russia as the war in Ukraine nears the three-year mark. 

According to the reports, the Member States won the proposal on Tuesday and had to start on Wednesday afternoon.

A Kremlin Running organization said the West prepared to interfere in Russia’s 2026 federal legislative elections.

The working group, whose objective is to save external interference, said that “the commission records the active preparation of Western countries to organize attempts to interfere in the state elections of the DUMA in 2026”, in a document cited through the Russian state news signature TASS.

“The United States and its satellites have already made test attempts to interfere in the Russian elections in 2024,” it added.

It’s not the first accusation of election interference over the past few months. 

Possibly, last month, Romania annulled the result of the first vote circular in her presidential elections after Russia was accused of wearing a “massive influence operation. “

Moscow told the Australian government that one of its citizens was alive after being captured while fighting along Ukrainian forces.

Oscar Jenkins, a 32 -year -old teacher, taken captive before last year.

“The Australian government has received confirmation from Russia that Oscar Jenkins is alive and in custody,” the country’s foreign minister Penny Wong said.

Reports emerged earlier this month, suggesting that Jenkins had been killed through Russian forces, prompting an investigation into his well-being.

“We still hold serious concerns for Jenkins as a prisoner of war,” Wong added.

She then called on Russia to release him from captivity, adding “Russia is obligated to treat him in accordance with international humanitarian law, including humane treatment.”

Ukraine urgently wants to start loading significant amounts of fuel to satisfy his wishes, warned the former head of the country’s public maritime transport operator.

Sergiy Makogon said the volume of gas in Ukraine’s storage facilities had fallen to near the critical mark of 10%.

“Our garage comforts are gradually arriving but in reality the 10% bleeding point,” Makogon said, added that this would reduce imaginable retreats to 60 million cubic meters consisting of the day.

“This will mean that we will not be able to meet gas demand through production and underground gas facilities, and we will need to import gas on an emergency basis,” he added.

Makogon explained storage facilities were around 20% full a year ago and between 22-23% full at the same time in 2023.

Daily fuel production cannot cover all of Ukraine’s wishes in the bloodless season, with the country pumping fuel into garage in the summer for winter use.  

Russia has said it held “frank” discussions with Syria in a bid to keep its two military bases in the country.

It seeks to maintain its naval base in Tartus, as well as the HMEIMIM Air Base, near the Port City of Latakie.

While it is not clear what is not easy in return, the new leader of the country Ahmed al Sharaa has asked Moscow to deliver former President Bashar al Assad, who fled when he overthrew in December, a source told Reuters.

The new Syrian management said that it had “emphasized that the recovery of relationships will have to face beyond errors, respect the will of other Syrian people and serve their interests” conversations with a Russian delegation.

Syria has also held talks with Ukraine since the fall of Assad, and said it hopes for “strategic partnerships” between the two countries.

“It is true that the other Syrians and the other Ukrainians have the same delight and the same suffering that we have suffered for 14 years,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Hassan Al Shaibani.

Ukraine has sent food aid to Syria after the fall of Assad, with Zelenskyy, adding: “We need Syria and the security, stability and recovery of the inhabitants. We know the truth of those things. “

Russia has systematically tried “information operations” to deter Western for Ukraine, according to the War Study Institute.

It comes after senior NATO official James Appathurai told the European Parliament yesterday the alliance had faced acts of sabotage in recent years, including train derailments and arson.

He also stressed an alleged Kremlin conspiracy to homicide the head of the German author Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, adding that Russia aimed to “create a fear to undermine Ukraine. “

The ISW said Moscow’s sabotage campaign directly targeting NATO states supports their assessment that Vladimir Putin sees Russia as waging a hybrid war directly against NATO.

Russia’s “insecure war” with the West is already underway, warned an expert and acknowledges that it makes the defeat “only a matter of time. “

Oleksandr Danylyuk, specialized in the Russian multidimensional war, said Moscow “said more and more” that he did not see any prerequisite for a high fire and that the production of weapons continues to increase.

When writing for the Royal United relays of the Royal United Services Institute, Danylyuk said: “All these signs underline the intensification of Russian efforts not only for military Ukraine, but also to destabilize and capture the West.

“Western leaders are stubbornly trying not to notice this, to some extent imitating the behaviour of their Ukrainian colleagues on the eve of the Russian invasion.”

Despite the fact that Vladimir Putin did not claim war in the West, Danylyuk said he is known by Russian citizens.

The country’s media, opinion leaders, civil and army representatives “said about several events that Russia’s war opposed NATO in Ukraine,” he said.

“Without a doubt, Russia is not in a position to move on to war with the forces of a united Europe, but it has enough perspective to take individual countries, even large,” he added.

Danylyuk added: “Russia’s undeclared war against the West is already underway, and the damned refused to acknowledge this fact through the top Western leaders defeating the West.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has opened an investigation into Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and will investigate the abuse of his authority.

As we reported yesterday, Ukraine’s government sacked its deputy defence minister following accusations of insufficient arms purchases.

Western officials have warned Ukraine that a rift between the country’s defence minister and the arms procurement chief could jeopardise trust in the country.

The representatives of the G7 nations called kyiv to the scenario “and to concentrate on keeping up the defense supply”.

Umerov requested the withdrawal of the Minister of Defense, Dmytro Klimenkov, and said that the company had “inexplicably remodeled in” Amazon “” and that their purchases were too visible.

In a reaction to complaints, the firm said it had made a “significant progress” to develop the source and prices.

Earlier, we informed you with Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments overnight about his hopes of running with US President Donald Trump (see our post at 8:0).

In an interview with Fox News, the Ukrainian president suggested that Trump be on the side of his country.

Zelenskyy has now brought in X to expand on his remarks, saying “the end of the heat of the war is critical. “

He went to the “absence” of Washington in the Minsk agreements signed in 2014 and 2015 to verify to guarantee a high fire between the Ukrainian government and the separatists supported through Russia in the east of the Council.

Zelenskyy also said Putin could have been forced into “real peace” if the United States had been involved.

“A strong America could have forced Putin into real peace, not just a frozen conflict,” Zelenskyy said.

“I am confident that if President Trump wants to, he can force Putin into peace.”