Ukraine has responded to demands presented by Hungary during a meeting in the city of Uzhhorod in late January, in order to unblock the eighth tranche of €500 million to the European Peace Facility.

Ukraine will consult its NATO partners about the supply of batteries of air defence systems, which it believes can be delivered immediately.

Germany has initiated a search for available Patriot air defence systems for Kyiv at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on 4 April.

During the NATO-Ukraine Council meeting at the level of foreign ministers at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba will focus on providing Kyiv with air defence systems.

The NATO-Ukraine Council meeting at the level of foreign ministers will take place in Brussels on 4 April, with the participation of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and will primarily focus on long-term support for Kyiv.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated that member countries are still discussing the format for establishing a new fund to assist Ukraine, and Kyiv is also involved in the discussion.

Krišjānis Kariņš, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Latvia, confirmed that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg did propose creating a multi-year fund to support Ukraine in the amount of US$100 billion.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has once again called on the US Congress to approve additional military assistance to Ukraine, stressing that the delay in this decision has "real consequences" on the battlefield.

Discussions on establishing a new multi-year fund to support Ukraine within the North Atlantic Alliance are expected to continue until the NATO summit in Washington in July this year.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he had agreed to appoint Oleksii Danilov, the former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, as ambassador to Moldova.

Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Vitalii Ihnatiev, a citizen of Ukraine and Transnistria's "foreign minister", on the wanted list [Transnistria is a breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova – ed.].

The Ukrainian government expects the European Commission to approve the reform plan under the Ukraine Facility in the coming weeks, which provides €50 billion in macro-financial assistance until 2027.