Despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's calls for alternative options to secure the €90 billion European loan for Ukraine blocked by Hungary, the EU still has no such "Plan B".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he found it strange that the CEO of German defence company Rheinmetall compared the manufacturing of Ukrainian drones to "playing with Lego" and said they were created by "housewives with 3D printers".

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Ukraine is ready to provide certain support for the unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz, on which the United States is working, citing Ukraine's experience in unblocking the trade route in the Black Sea.

Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže has announced that the Latvian government has adopted a decision to provide Ukraine with a new aid package.

Acting Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Gyurov arrived in Kyiv on a visit on Monday 30 March.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday 29 March that he does not oppose a Russian-flagged oil tanker reaching Cuba, even though such a move would violate the fuel blockade imposed by his administration.

EU officials are discussing contingency plans in the event that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's party wins the parliamentary elections, with five different options under consideration.

Several hundred US special operations forces fighters have arrived in the Middle East, joining thousands of marines and paratroopers to provide President Trump with additional capabilities for escalating the war with Iran.

Candidates from the opposition Tisza party are showing strong chances of defeating long-serving MPs from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ruling Fidesz party in several key constituencies ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections on 12 April.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said Russia will not take part in the talks between Ukraine and the United States scheduled for 21 March in the US.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said media reports misrepresented her comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's position on blocking a loan to Ukraine.

EU leaders have condemned Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure that resulted in pollution of the Dnister River.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he believes the European Union will not survive without Russian energy resources and described the EU's stance on phasing out Russian oil as "crazy".

Naftogaz, Ukraine's largest state-owned oil and gas company, has announced that it has briefed the EU deputy ambassador to Ukraine on a plan to repair the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is holding a meeting on Thursday with a US delegation led by John Coale, the US Special Envoy to Belarus.