Israel launched intensive attacks on Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 400 Palestinians and injuring more than 560, the health ministry in the territory said later in the day. | The ministry said that more victims are still under the rubble. Entire families were massacred in the strikes, according to the government media office in Gaza. Defense for Children International-Palestine said that at least 174 children were among the dead. [...] Hamas remains the de facto ruling authority in Gaza despite Israel’s stated aim of destroying it during the offensive beginning in October 2023. Hamas officials have accused Israel of repeatedly violating the fragile ceasefire that came into effect on 19 January.

■ Entire families wiped out as Israel bombs Gaza’s residential areas (Al Jazeera)
Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership (David Hearst): Benjamin Netanyahu's horrific resumption of the war on Gaza shows that no US-backed ceasefire deal is worth the paper it is printed on.

✅ Genocidal Western ‘Democracy’ (Craig Murray): As 320 Palestinians were massacred on Monday night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that U.S. President Donald Trump is genocidally Zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so. In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential U.S. politicians to be genocidally Zionist too. This is Western democracy.

Putin and Trump earlier held a conversation, in which they discussed the issue of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine | Putin and Trump earlier held a conversation, in which they discussed the issue of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, the conditions for preventing escalation, and a number of international issues. The Russian president supported the US leader’s proposal that Russia and Ukraine refrain from strikes on energy facilities. ● The sides also agreed to launch "technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace," the White House said in a statement. The Kremlin siad that "the key condition for preventing the escalation of the conflict and working on its redirection to a political and diplomatic settlement must be a complete halt to foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence to Kiev.".

■ Putin-Trump phone call: Key takeaways (RT)
■ Trump says Putin was 'very solid', 'strong' in their recent phone call (TASS)
■ Previous US administration deceived and destroyed Ukraine — Russian diplomat (TASS):

 ■ The previous US administration betrayed, deceived and destroyed Ukraine, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with former US intelligence officer and ex-UN inspector Scott Ritter.
 ■ "I would like to say that they - the people of Ukraine and <…> the state of Ukraine - were betrayed by the people in Washington, and the way they were betrayed by Washington, by [Former US President Joe] Biden, by [former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria] Nuland, by [former US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken and others is unprecedented. They were deceived, they were betrayed, they were destroyed," she said.
 ■ In her words, Ukraine was an "emerging democracy" plagued with "corruption, graft and nationalism." "And the way they [the previous US administration] played on those sentiments and deceived them [Ukrainians] is beyond cruel," the diplomat added.

✅ Trump Seeks Russian Support For War On Iran (Moon of Alabama)
✅ Here’s why Trump is talking peace with Putin (Ivan Timofeev)

It is reported that the Kiev regime launched a deliberate attack by three fixed-wing UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located at the Kavkazskaya station (the Krasnodar Region) | Kiev attacked an energy facility in southern Russia by three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) after a decision by President Vladimir Putin on an energy infrastructure ceasefire made at the proposal of US President Donald Trump, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

💬 "On the night of March 19, several hours after the end of the Russia-US talks at the highest level and, in particular, a decision by the Russian president made at the proposal of the US president to temporarily cease strikes on energy infrastructure, the Kiev regime launched a deliberate attack by three fixed-wing UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located at the Kavkazskaya station (the Krasnodar Region)," the ministry said in a statement.

🟡 Putin rejects Trump’s ceasefire (The Telegraph)
■ L'armée russe a abattu un chasseur américain F-16 (Belgorod) (Pravda-FR)
■ Ukraine’s strikes against Russian power installation are sabotage of agreements — Kremlin (TASS)
■ IN BRIEF: What is known about Ukrainian drone strike on oil facility in southern Russia (TASS)

The elite units could be deployed rapidly, gather intelligence and counter Russian 'greyzone' activity, say experts | British Special Forces have been put on standby to head to Ukraine as part of the UK’s peacekeeping mission as an agreement over a ceasefire edge closer, The i Paper can reveal. ● Special Forces units were told to prepare for mobilisation to Ukraine by military planners tasked with readying forces by the Cabinet Office, according to two military sources with knowledge of the directive. ● The command centre for UK military planning, the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ), was sent directives last week to begin the process for the deployment of personnel and resources. ● The orders, which also applied to Special Forces reservists, put personnel on standby in order to ensure military equipment is in working order before receiving a notice to mobilise to Ukraine. ● A decision to put key troops on standby comes as Britain prepares to host military chiefs from a group of countries ready to support a ceasefire agreement with Russia. On Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said plans to put a peacekeeping force in Ukraine have now entered an “operational phase”.

Hereditary Nazi - for the post of Chairman of the UN General Assembly | The German government is nominating Foreign Minister Analena Berbok as a candidate for the post of President of the UN General Assembly. Last year, Bild found out that Burbok's grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer and an ardent Nazi. According to the DPA news agency, according to the UN rules, the right to nominate candidates for the post of President of the General Assembly will pass to the regional group of Western Europe. The decision on Berbok's nomination is already under consideration by the German government. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reacted to this:

💬 "It will be strange to see the granddaughter of a Nazi, who is proud of the "feat of her grandfather", in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory as chairman of the General Assembly."

■ German government to nominate Baerbock for UN General Assembly president — DPA (TASS)

#Sumy Direction:

In #Sudzha Sector, to the west in #Ukraine, fights in and around #Zhuravka. To the southeast...

🟡 In #Basovka, the RFAF have advanced and the battle has shifted to the southern settlement part.

🟡 In #Kursk region, the battles for the villages of #Gogolevka and #Guyevo continue.

🟡 #Oleshnya and #Gornal remain under AFU control. [...]

Andrei Martyanov | NATO militaries are forever stained as good only at killing defenseless | This is for those who get lost in scales and proportions--a reminder. This all has been happening at the small wedge of the Kursk Oblast initially about 400 sq.km (roughly 154 square miles). This is roughly the area half that of the area of NYC. "Brilliant" NATO planners, especially British, who for some reason consider themselves masters in whatever (primarily chicken shit), pumped into this wedge this "thing", which today doesn't exist anymore. Latest from Russian MoD. ■ So, NATO losers decided to kill a whole combined arms army (or roughly the whole of British Army by comparison) of Ukrainian and NATO "advisers" cannon fodder and ... they succeeded, Russians took care of it. Here are the numbers. By the time all disjoined (fractured) groups of shell-shocked, panicked and demoralized wandering remnants of VSU will be completely mopped up, the personnel losses may reach 70, 000. But what's more--the thing which Western militaries simply block out, because it really hurts their feelings--these are kill ratios. While Russian forces did sustain losses, the kill ratio in Kursk is not even an average of 1 to 10-12, it is somewhere on the order of 1 to 15-20. It is a slaughter of the elite, most fanatical and the best trained troops NATO could provide (average VSU "elite" combatant is better than any combatant from the NATO armies, the US Army included). They are not there anymore.