Netanyahu and Trump being both strong backers of Orban and thus opponents of democracy (and Ukraine) in Europe is a terrible position for the US and Israel to be

🇭🇺📞 According to The Washington Post, Szijjarto called Moscow during EU meetings and relayed details of the discussions to Lavrov. Such communication actually gave Russia the opportunity to be aware of the internal discussions of the EU. Szijjarto himself does not comment on the situation.

⚡️Ukrainian activist, former political prisoner, says he was beaten at Kyiv recruitment center. Volodymyr Balukh, a former Kremlin-held political prisoner who took part in pro-Ukrainian activism in Russian-occupied Crimea, was reportedly beaten at a military recruitment center in Kyiv.

🇫🇷 Macron: This morning in the Mediterranean, the French Navy intercepted and boarded another vessel from the shadow fleet, the Deyna. The war involving Iran will not deflect France from its support for Ukraine, where Russia’s war of aggression continues unabated.

❗️❗️Russia is preparing a major offensive. Thanks to rising oil prices, the Russian budget has been replenished, while the West's attention and resources have been scattered due to the conflict with Iran, — Associated Press

⚡️At least 6 killed, 32 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Russian forces launched 156 drones against Ukraine overnight, of which over 90 were Shahed-type, the Air Force said, reporting that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 133.

🔴 A Ukrainian first responder, Oleksandr Dudulad, stood as the lone survivor to bid a final farewell to his colleague, Oleh Zhuravliov, following a deadly Russian attack in the Kupiansk region. 1/2

NEW: Russian authorities continue efforts to temporarily deport Ukrainian children to Russia for cultural re-education, indoctrination, and forced integration into the Russian sphere of influence. 🧵 (1/9) Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...

🇫🇮🇺🇦🇬🇧 Stubb published a joint photo with Zelensky and Starmer. 💬 In difficult times, it is always good to sit down and talk with friends and allies. Thank you for your hospitality, Keir! Glory to Ukraine, Volodymyr!💬 ​​— wrote the Finnish leader

Remember the people who defended Belgian PM De Wever for shielding Russian frozen assets? They seem hopelessly naive today. They accepted his short-sighted legal excuses, and now he is openly calling to normalize relations with Moscow. A total embarrassment

The Souls of Mariupol memorial was held in Milan to commemorate the massacre of Ukrainians by russia at the Mariupol Drama Theater. Participants formed the word ДЕТИ (children) — a message that russian war criminals ignored. 200 white balloons were raised to honor the victims⚪️

⚡️ Moldova declares environmental alert as Russian strike pollutes key water supply. "We are acting to protect our people," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said.

Fragments of a Russian drone fell near the Independence Monument on Maidan in central Kyiv. This morning, the capital once again woke up to the sound of explosions. Video: Telegram / Реальний Київ

As I sit through yet another russian Shahed attack on Kyiv, I'm thinking of one of russia's most horrific crimes — the targeted destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theater four years ago today. That airstrike killed hundreds of innocent people, mostly women and children who had sought shelter there.

🕯️ Russia struck an ambulance in Kharkiv region, killing two medics. Doctor Dmytro Kolesnyk and emergency technician Oleh Zhuravlov were transporting wounded patients when the strike hit. Both had survived a previous FPV drone attack in the Kupiansk sector last month.

❗️❗️Russia and China are aiding Iran in a number of ways, including by providing "military cooperation," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. Araghchi called Russia and China strategic partners for Tehran during its war with the U.S. and Israel, - Politico

Childhood in Ukraine 💔

⚡️Hungary returns Ukrainian bank vehicles but keeps $82M in gold, cash. Hungary returned two seized armored vehicles to Ukraine's Oschadbank on March 12 but is withholding cash and gold worth about $82 million amid an ongoing dispute between Budapest and Kyiv.

A Russian drone with a 100 kg warhead pierced through the roof and ceiling of a house in Mykolaiv, yet miraculously, it did not explode.

Your hate towards russia is not enough. Bakhmut.

🤬 Six people injured in Russian strikes on hospital in Kherson and across oblast

❗️ Russians allowed a game about their crimes in Ukraine to be put on Steam Russian game "Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes" promotes Russian narratives and shows the Russian army with positive characters. Now the Ukrainian gaming community is fighting to remove this abomination from the store.

⚡️Update: Over 40 police officers injured in Russian drone strike in Sumy Oblast. Interior Ministry Spokesperson Mariana Reva told the outlet Ukrainska Pravda that the number of officers injured in the Russian attack on a district police department in Shostka had risen to over 40.

⚡️Russia earns additional 6 billion euros in fossil fuel revenue as oil prices soar amid US-Iran war, analysis finds.

❗️G7 countries agree not to lift sanctions against Russia amid Middle East war 🇫🇷 The rise in oil prices caused by the war in the Middle East does not justify lifting sanctions against Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron announced after a remote G7 meeting.

In Kherson, Russia continues its "hunt" for civilians. Today Russian forces struck a minibus in the Dniprovskyi district. Ten people were injured, including a 17-year-old boy, and one person is in very critical condition.

🇭🇺 Kremlin has reportedly backed a covert online disinformation campaign to help Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán win the April 12 election, - FT The plan aims to flood Hungarian social media with pro-Orbán messages and attacks on Magyar.

⚡ At least 9 killed, 44 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over the past day. Russia launched 99 attack drones — including 70 Shahed-type drones — at Ukraine over the past day, the Air Force reported.

It turns out that if you help Ukraine with modern highly effective missiles - and stop trembling in fear of Putin and burying Ukraine under endless absurd restrictions - Russia starts losing key military factories and weapons one after another. It becomes less capable of continuing this war.

⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds. The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.

Putin: Donetsk and the region are rebuilding well. Meanwhile in Donetsk: ...

🤡 Seizure of Oschadbank cash and gold: Hungarian government approves confiscation of valuables

NEW: The Russian military simply does not have the capacity to overrun Ukrainian defenses that Putin constantly claims. 🧵⤵️ (1/5) 1/ Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions but also in western Zaporizhia Oblast. isw.pub/UkrWar030926

Ukraine’s MFA said Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards detained March 5 near Budapest were held in handcuffs for 28 hours and transported blindfolded. The operation involved a Hungarian counter-terrorism unit with an APC, machine guns, and grenade launchers, although the Ukrainians were unarmed.

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Ukrainian biathlete Oleksandra Kononova was reprimanded for wearing earrings with the inscription “Stop War” at the 2026 Paralympics. She shared this with journalists after the individual race, where she won bronze.

🇺🇦🇫🇮 Russia’s war in Ukraine could have ended by now if Kyiv had received the level of air defense deployed in the Persian Gulf countries during the week of the war, — Finnish President Stubb

The most influential group of pro-Russian traitors in the European Parliament. Siding with Russia against Ukraine in 2026 should be a crime in Europe

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

❗️Hungary has still not returned two armored vehicles carrying ~$40M, €35M, and 9kg of gold seized from Ukraine's Oschadbank. Seven staff detained alongside the vehicles have returned to Ukraine, but the assets remain in Hungary. Oschadbank demands immediate return. #Ukraine

🇭🇺❗️🇺🇦 Hungarians never returned the money they seized during the arrest of the collectors, — Oschadbank We are talking about 40 million US dollars, 35 million euros and 9 kg of bank gold.

Just sent out my free weekend update. This was the most extraordinary week, when the Ukrainians stood up to help the USA and the USA stood up to help the Russians (across the board). Ukraine is saving American lives while Russia is helping end them… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

russia was allowed to compete in Paralympics under their flag. Here’s what Andrew Parsons the President, had to say about it. Behold. “It doesn’t matter to us what they have done.” No it’s clear why they made those Nazi Olympics tees and stood by that decision.

💔😔The number of people killed in russias hit on a residential building in Kharkiv has now risen to 7, including two children. According to President Zelenskyy russia launched a total of 29 missiles, nearly half of them were ballistic, and 480 drones at Ukraine during the night.

This photo was taken this morning in a residential area of Kharkiv. You know… before the events in the Middle East, there was a sense of certainty that maybe, sooner or later, everything would work out. But it’s like a chain reaction. The world is spinning out of control…

It would be strategic lunacy for Europe to support the US/Israeli war on Iran. It is an illegal war that comes with huge costs: regional spillover, higher energy costs, helping Putin in Ukraine. It risks drawing Europe into a new regime change quagmire ecfr.eu/article/stra...

❗️Half of the house in Kharkiv is gone: ballistics simply demolished it. People are lying under the rubble

Make no mistake, Russian soldiers have committed atrocities in Ukraine — things we haven’t seen since WWII. Over 25,000 people, including women and children, were slaughtered in Mariupol alone, and Russia continues to bomb cities, schools and hospitals. Sickening.

Six months after my capture, I was finally exchanged. Beaten, emaciated and tortured right up until the last day. These photos were taken the first day after my transfer, safely back in the UK. Electric cattle prods, truncheons, beatings, all the way home.

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