🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Zelensky Says 'Build The Wall': Ukraine Erecting 2,000km Of Fortifications On Front Lines | March 11, 2024:

"Ukraine's President Zelensky has more or less indicated he's ready to build the wall—to borrow the old Trump phrase...

He announced on Telegram Monday that he has ordered the construction of some 2,000 kilometers of fortifications in order to solidify the front lines with Russian forces. He touted the good "pace of construction of new defense lines."

He reviewed the status of the fortification in a meeting with military commanders and ministers following approval of a "record amount" of funds allocated for the fortification efforts, at between $500 and $800 million."

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🇩🇰🇺🇦A new military aid package for Ukraine worth around 2.3 billion kroner ($336.6 million) has been agreed at the Danish Foreign Policy Council.

According to the Ministry of Defence, 2.3 billion kroner will be allocated for the period 2024-2026. Of this, about 1.3 billion kroner ($190.2 million) will be spent in 2024, about 0.2 billion kroner ($29.3 million) in 2025 and about 0.7 billion kroner ($102.4 million) in 2026. A total of 25.3 billion kronor ($3.7 billion) has been earmarked for Ukraine's assistance fund, to be disbursed between 2024 and 2028.

The 16th assistance package includes funds for the purchase of CAESAR self-propelled artillery units in cooperation with France, 120 mm self-propelled mortars and their ammunition in cooperation with Estonia and the Czech Republic.

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🇪🇺 Brussels vs. Brussels: EU Parliament to sue Commission over Hungary cash — Politico

The European Parliament is preparing to sue the European Commission over its controversial decision to unfreeze billions in funds for Hungary late last year, people involved in the decision told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.

The Parliament’s legal affairs committee on Monday voted nearly unanimously — with 16 members in favor, one opposed and no abstentions — to take the Commission to court for breaching its obligation to protect taxpayer money from being misused.

Last December, the Commission unblocked €10.2 billion in frozen EU cohesion funds earmarked for Budapest, which had been held back amid human rights and rule-of-law concerns.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s decision to unfreeze the funds was met with backlash from MEPs, who accused her of caving to Orbán’s blackmail.

“We believe we have a solid case, as the Commission has contradicted itself on whether Hungary is respecting the rule of law,” Greens MEP Daniel Freund told Playbook Monday night. “The Court of Justice of the EU has always stood up for the independence of the courts.”

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/parliament-sues-commission-over-unfreezing-of-hungary-funds/

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🇺🇸❗️🇷🇺🔫📈 — 🇺🇸 The Libertarian Institute | Russia Producing 3 Times More Shells Than US, EUROPE Combined – Report | March 12, 2024:

"Russia’s defense industry is turning out nearly three times more artillery shells than its American and European counterparts, according to a NATO intelligence report obtained by CNN. Western powers have scrambled to ramp up production as Ukrainian troops face dire ammunition shortages.

While the US and Europe have the capacity to produce a combined 1.2 million shells annually, Russia’s output has now reached 3 million, the NATO estimate said. Though Washington aims to boost production to 100,000 155mm shells each month by 2025 – up from just 28,000 last September – that target can only be met with a resumption of American aid to Kiev, and would still put US output at less than half of Moscow’s.

According to US officials, Russia is burning through around 10,000 shells per day, vastly outgunning Ukraine’s daily average of just 2,000. The Estonian Defense Ministry has estimated that Kiev would need 200,000 rounds every month to match Russia’s firepower."

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🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦 High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell announced 5 billion EURs in aid to Ukraine.

📝 The EU is the sole Western country still funding Ukraine after the U.S. got stuck in a deadlock and halted funding for the last ~9 months

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🇨🇳🔫💸📈 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | China Steps Up Military Spending | March 12, 2024:

"According to SIPRI data, China has increased its military expenditure by almost 900 percent since 1992.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, at around $300 billion in 2022, the Chinese spent significantly more than the Russians (around $72 billion), but their spending was still well below that of the U.S. (around $812 billion).

China is the second-biggest spender in total military budget after the United States."

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🇩🇰 Denmark to begin connoscripting women for the military in rare move

Women in Denmark can already volunteer for military service. In 2023, they made up about a quarter of the cohort.

Denmark is now the third country in Europe to introduce female connoscription. Norway and Sweden did so in 2015 and in 2017, respectively.

The Danish Army consists of 7,000 to 9,000 professional troops, excluding connoscripts undergoing basic training, according to official figures. Compulsory military service applies to men over the age of 18. However, because there are enough volunteers, not all young men are connoscripted. Instead, a lottery is held.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-extend-military-service-women-connoscription/

🇺🇸💸 Breaking Down $1.3T in NATO Defense Spending 🪖

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🇳🇮👁🌐⚠️ — In an initiative that intensifies control over telecommunications, the dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, proposed a new law to his controlled parliament that requires telecommunications companies to provide detailed information about their users to the Sandinista regime

➡️ The measure, which is being reviewed by the Infrastructure Committee of the Parliament, which has an almost absolute Sandinista majority, includes the delivery of statistical and georeferenced data to the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (Telcor).

➡️ The legislative proposal, which would replace the current General Law of Telecommunications and Postal Services, aims to "update regulations to correspond to technological advances."

‼️ However, exiled and persecuted opponents of the Sandinista regime warn that it would give permission for Ortega's dictatorship to develop a comprehensive surveillance system, directly affecting both operators and users.

⚠️ The proposed law also imposes, under Telcor's supervision, the importation of technological equipment and requires telecommunications operators to provide the geolocation of their users to the regime.

➡️ The legislation also obliges companies to make their facilities and services available to the regime free of charge in situations of "national or regional emergency." Ortega's regime argues that the new Convergent Telecommunications Law will promote "high-speed connectivity, quality, and affordability for Nicaraguans."

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🇺🇸 Officials in New Mexico confirm the death of a man resulting from infection with the bubonic plague

A man in Lincoln County succumbed to the bubonic plague becoming the first fatality since 2020 and the first recorded case since 2021.

The New Mexico Health Department is assessing the risks of further infections in the Lincoln County. The department warned locals to avoid sick or dead rodents, rabbits, their nests and burrows to prevent infected fleas from jumping onto the skin of humans and passing on the bacterial infection.

🔗 https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/health-officials-man-dies-bubonic-plague-new-mexico