EU foreign ministers will hold a meeting in Kyiv led by Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on 31 March.

US President Donald Trump has criticised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for stating that Berlin does not consider the war America is waging against Iran to be its own affair.

US President Donald Trump has commented on media reports about the possible redirection to the Middle East of American weapons intended for Ukraine.

Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whom the country's government has accused of espionage, has stated that government and private aircraft belonging to Hungarian officials may have transported significant sums of money and valuables out of Russia.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said he sees nothing unusual in Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó helping to arrange a visit to Moscow for former Slovak prime minister Peter Pellegrini in support of his election campaign.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit France on 27 March to take part in a meeting of G7 foreign ministers, where the Russo-Ukrainian war will be among the topics on the agenda.

Germany will fund the production of 15,000 Ukrainian-made Strila (Arrow) interceptor drones, which will be handed over to units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

The Deyna, a tanker from Russia's so-called shadow fleet seized by the French military, has arrived at the port of Marseille-Fos, where it will be handed over to judicial authorities for further investigation.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that the easing of US sanctions on Russian oil could bring Moscow around US$2 billion in additional revenue, which he described as insignificant.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will be represented only by a political delegation at talks on 21 March in the US on ending the war, in which Russia will not attend, citing a lack of "political will" to end it.

An operation to seize Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards and assets belonging to Oschadbank on 5 March was planned by Hungarian intelligence services to provoke a confrontation with Ukraine ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reported the detention in the Mediterranean Sea of the vessel Deyna belonging to Russia's shadow fleet.

US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy John Coale has announced during a visit to Belarus that sanctions would be lifted on several Belarusian banks and potash-producing companies.

Gergely Gulyás, the head of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Office, has said the Hungarian government has decided to ban three Ukrainian citizens.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Downing Street.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has lashed out at a proposal by the European Union to help Ukraine restore oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.

Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has said she sees no desire among member states to conclude energy deals with Russia, even "behind closed doors".

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit London on Tuesday 17 March.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stressed during an online address to the Council of the European Union that the approval of a €90 billion loan from the European Union cannot be contingent on the operation of the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to arrive in Spain on 18 March for a visit.