"The Biden administration announced this week that it plans to resume humanitarian aid drops into Gaza amid reports that large-scale famine is looming. However, critics have said that the airdropped crates from large military transport planes are dangerous given thecramped and desperate conditions on the ground below.
So far the Pentagon has delivered at least 17 airdrops of nearly 500,000 meals, but the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry has said that just on Monday alone 18 people died trying to desperately access the aid, much of which landed in the sea. Airdropping supplies just off the coast is an apparent safety precaution, after earlier this month Palestinian civilians died after apparently being impacted by falling crates amid parachute failure.
But 12 of the deceased drowned on Monday while trying to access the aid which landed in the Mediterranean. "The aid airdrops pose a real threat to the lives of hungry Palestinians," Gaza’s government media office warned. Others reportedly perished during stampedes as the aid arrived on land." ZH
"The Spanish Defense Staff (EMAD) has reported that during 21-26 March, patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy spotted two Russian landing craft and a tanker in Spanish sovereign waters. The Spanish patrol vessels Atalaya and Vigía have been tracking the Russian amphibious assault ships Ivan Gren and Alexander Otrakovsky, as well as the oil tanker Kola." MS
"Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization‘s Military Committee, Lt. Adm. RobBauer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, has called for Ukraine to bolster its troop numbers through conscription to offset its massive losses on the battlefield.
Bauer made this statement during the opening session of the Kyiv Security Forum, a conference organized annually by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Bauer stressed the need for not only replenishing Ukraine’s stockpile of weaponry but also augmenting the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the massive casualties incurred in combat with Russia. . He advocated for a collective effort akin to the approach taken by the world’s nations to combat the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, asserting that societal sacrifices are imperative.
Notably, Bauer emphasized that such sacrifices primarily entail the involvement of others, distancing himself and fellow proponents of war from personal risk." NW
"Czechia expanded the list of sanctions against Russia. Former Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk has been added to the list of restrictions, announces Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
According to him, the government expanded the national sanctions list to include two individuals and one legal entity.
This concerns former Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk, the company Voice of Europe, and propagandist Artem Marchevsky.
Fiala said the sanctions are aimed at hitting the pro-Russian network that tried to conduct an influence operation in Czechia." RBC
"The United States and South Korea have set up a new working group aimed at preventing North Korea from illegally purchasing oil as the UN Security Council deadlock casts doubt on the future of international sanctions, Reuters reports. The two sides expressed concern over Russia's oil supplies to North Korea and discussed ways to end the illegal cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang, the statement said." RBC
"Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia terror group, fired rockets into northern Israel hitting a factory that employed people with special needs, and killing a 23-year-old Druze Arab named Zaher Bashara in the facility. Israel’s Iron Dome typically intercepts rockets, but Hezbollah has been firing shorter-range projectiles such as anti-tank missiles, which do not fly high enough for radar to detect, making it more difficult to prevent them from landing." Breitbart
"Using operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery units of the Russian Armed Forces, strikes were delivered on assembly and storage sites of unmanned aerial vehicles. In turn, air defense systems destroyed 210 Ukrainian drones and shot down 21 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS projectiles in the special military operation zone." Sputnik
"In the past 24 hours, the enemy launched five missile attacks, 74 air strikes, and 152 MLRS attacks on the positions of Ukrainian forces and populated areas.
Over the past day, the following populated areas came under Russian air strikes: Novoyehorivka, Ivanivka, and Kyslivka in the Kharkiv region; Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region; Terny, Yampolivka, Vesele, Kurdiumivka, Chasiv Yar, Berdychi, Novopokrovske, Novomykhailivka, Mykilske, Karlivka, Umanske, Semenivka, Krasnohorivka, Oleksandrivka, Staromayorske in the Donetsk region; Malynivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Volyn and Polissia sectors, the situation has remained unchanged.In the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna sectors, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts sabotage activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to the threatened areas, and increases the density of minefields along the state border.
In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy made one unsuccessful attack on the positions of Ukrainian troops near Ivanivka in the Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian troops repelled 13 enemy attacks near the towns of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region; Terny, Yampolivka, and north of Vesele, Donetsk region, where the enemy, supported by aircraft, attempted to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian forces.
In the Bakhmut sector, the Ukrainian forces repelled seven enemy attacks in the areas of Ivanivske, Bohdanivka, and Klishchiivka in the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiivka sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled nine enemy attacks in the vicinity of Berdychi, Semenivka, Nevelske, and Pervomaiske in the Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlivka sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to hold back the enemy in the areas of Novomykhailivka, Heorhiivka, and Urozhaine, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops 26 times.
In the Orikhiv sector, the enemy, with the support of aircraft, attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 7 times near Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region; Robotyne, and north-west of Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Kherson sector, the enemy does not abandon its intention to dislodge Ukrainian units from their footholds on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Over the past 24 hours, they launched three unsuccessful attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops near Krynky, Kherson region." Ukrin
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