With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his neighbor that could put even more pressure on Kyiv.

By Olena Harmash KYIV, March 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine is still expecting the first tranche of a 90-billion euro ($103.89 billion) loan from the European Union next month, despite a failure to break Hungary's veto of the funding at a summit this week,

As of 8 a.m., Ukrainian air defenses, aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups had shot down or suppressed 133 of the drones across the north,