The Swedish government has decided to provide the World Bank with a second guarantee that will enable Ukraine to receive a loan of approximately SEK 2.5 billion (€236 million).

Romanian President Nicușor Dan announced after a meeting of the National Security Council that the Russian consulate general in Constanța will be closed and the Russian consul expelled.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said the European Union should immediately begin dialogue with Moscow after a Russian attack drone hit a residential apartment block in the city of Galați, Romania.

Ukraine is to receive a tranche of nearly €2.8bn after the Council of the European Union approved the seventh regular disbursement under the EU Ukraine Facility support mechanism.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has announced that 16 used Gripen fighter jets are to be sent to Ukraine, and there are plans to purchase 20 new aircraft of the same model.

The Hungarian government has outlined the condition under which Prime Minister Péter Magyar would meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including to discuss the situation of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.

Anne Keast-Butler, Director of the UK intelligence service GCHQ, has said Russia is deliberately threatening critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust in the United Kingdom.

The European External Action Service has summoned the Russian chargé d'affaires over Moscow's threats to foreign diplomats.

Poland has received provisional approval from the US Department of State to manufacture missiles for Patriot air defence systems at facilities belonging to its domestic defence industry.

The Netherlands has delivered more than 60 Toyota Hilux pickup trucks and unmanned systems to Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine.

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna wants the European Union to focus on the process that will lead Ukraine to full EU membership and to open all six accession negotiating clusters ahead of the June summit.

Remigijus Bridikis, director of Lithuania's State Security Department (VSD), has stated that amid drone incidents, Russia is conducting an information operation against Lithuania and other Baltic states while, in the long term, testing its readiness for various scenarios, including military ones.

The Czech government has approved amendments to legislation on Ukrainian refugees that would introduce stricter residency and humanitarian assistance requirements for some Ukrainians holding temporary protection status.

Marcin Kierwiński, Poland's Minister of the Interior and Administration, has said that five Polish citizens aged between 15 and 18 had been detained in connection with the brutal beating of three Ukrainian teenagers in Warsaw.