Euromaidan Press Staff

Ukraine's defense transformation is no longer a secret.

Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on Hungary ended in a democratic landslide on Sunday, as Peter Magyar's Tisza party swept to a two-thirds supermajority.

Ahead of Easter, 182 Ukrainians come home from the Russian captivity.

Russia announced a unilateral Easter ceasefire days after dismissing an identical offer from Kyiv, repeating a pattern from 2025 when Moscow violated the same kind of truce more than 2,000 times. Zelenskyy warned that withdrawing from Donbas would open an unobstructed Russian route to Kharkiv and Dnipro, with replacement fortifications taking up to 18 months to construct. Ukraine struck two Russian oil platforms in the Caspian Sea, nearly 1,000 km from the front, as Russia's envoy arrived in Washington hours before a 30-day US oil sanctions waiver expires.

Russia is racing to field 165,000 drone troops by year's end, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said, as Ukrainian forces struck the Krymskaya oil station, destroyed a ninth Tor-M1 in nine days, and Zelenskyy accused Washington of ignoring proof that Moscow passed US base coordinates to Iran.

The Washington Post reported that Hungary is simultaneously sharing intelligence with Iran, after US Vice President Vance flew to Budapest to campaign alongside its leader.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's frontline robot army has more than doubled in four months.

Leaked documents expose Russia's Africa disinformation machine, while Ukraine wins chess ruling at the CAS.

An RFI investigation places more than 200 Ukrainian military specialists at three Libyan sites with Mediterranean access, on the same day Cairo pledged to stop buying Russian-supplied grain from occupied Ukrainian territory and purchase Ukrainian wheat instead.

Hungary's block on €90 billion in EU funds for Ukraine is exposing a structural fracture in the bloc, with 26 member states increasingly moving ahead without Budapest.

Meanwhile, leaked transcripts revealed Hungary's foreign minister not only removed 72 Russian entities from EU sanctions but asked Moscow to write his arguments for delisting more.

On the day Russia spurned a Ukrainian ceasefire offer and demanded Donbas in two months, Kyiv accused Moscow of deliberately redirecting drones into Finland and the Baltic states — while continuing strikes on the Ust-Luga oil port for the second consecutive day.

On the home front, a looming budget crisis threatens to drain war funding.

Ukraine absorbed more than 3,000 drone strikes in seven days, its forces set Ust-Luga ablaze again with yet another Baltic port strike, and Zelenskyy arrived in Amman to sign the Gulf region's latest defense partnership — all while Atesh partisans were burning Russian electronic warfare towers to punch corridors for Ukrainian drones deep inside Russian territory.