Ukraine has installed anti-drone protection along 42 kilometers of roads in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine's defense minister Fedorov announced.
President Zelensky and Romanian President Nicusor Dan signed a package of bilateral agreements in Bucharest covering energy sector cooperation, joint defense production, and a strategic partnership declaration between Ukraine and Romania.
❗️In addition: Bangladesh has formally requested a US sanctions waiver to buy Russian oil, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury confirmed after meeting US Ambassador Brent Christensen. Dhaka is seeking terms similar to those granted to India.
❗️The US has informally approved Romania's plan to reactivate the sanctioned Petrotel-Lukoil refinery in Ploiesti, Romanian Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan announced. The 48,600-barrel-per-day plant would supply nearly a fifth of Romania's fuel needs.
❗️The US has informally approved Romania's plan to reactivate the sanctioned Petrotel-Lukoil refinery in Ploiesti, Romanian Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan announced. The 48,600-barrel-per-day plant would supply nearly a fifth of Romania's fuel needs.
❗️Zelensky told Politico he wants Trump to pressure Putin rather than Ukraine. "We need more pressure on Russia, not on me," he said. He added security guarantees must be ratified by parliaments to bind future administrations, and that no details on their form have been provided.
❗️Ukraine has received PAC-3 Patriot missiles from Germany, Zelensky announced. Berlin had pledged the missiles at the most recent Ramstein meeting.
❗️Hungary's energy state secretary Gabor Csepek led a group to Ukraine for alleged Druzhba pipeline talks, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs announced. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said the group has no official status and no scheduled meetings, having entered as regular Schengen visa-free visitors. "It is incorrect to call them a delegation," Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi sai...
The Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency has developed a disinformation campaign backing Orbán ahead of Hungary's elections, the Financial Times reported. The campaign portrays Orbán as a strong sovereign leader and Magyar as a "Brussels puppet without external support." To avoid exposure, the agency used Hungarian influencers rather than direct contact with Orbán's circle.
❗️Turkish President Erdogan called for the war against Iran to stop before it escalates and sets the entire region on fire, saying diplomacy must be given a chance. "Turkey is not a country that turns its back on friends and brothers in times of crisis," he said.
EU member states are preparing €30 billion in bilateral loans to Ukraine that would bypass Hungary and Slovakia's veto on the bloc's €90 billion loan package, two diplomatic sources told Politico. The funds, led by Nordic and Baltic states, would cover Ukraine's budget deficit and war costs through mid-year.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump's claim that Iranian Tomahawk missiles killed 170 people including children at a girls' school "goes beyond absurdity." "Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles, Donald Trump. He says whatever comes to his mind, regardless of the truth," Schumer said.
Democratic Senator Blumenthal said after a Trump administration Senate briefing on the Iran war: "I am more fearful than I have ever been. We may be putting boots on the ground." He said administration priorities remain unclear across nuclear capacity, missiles, regime change, and terrorism.
❗️Ukraine offered the United States a drone technology deal involving the transfer of Ukrainian UAV developments and technologies, President Zelensky confirms. Zelensky says Kyiv wants the agreement signed directly with President Trump.
Ukrainian forces struck a plant in Bryansk that produces control systems for Russian missiles, President Zelensky confirmed. Zelensky says he received the report from commander in chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.