Maria Tril

Kurylo Budanov expects Witkoff, Kushner and Graham in Kyiv after 12 April Orthodox Easter — their first visit, as security guarantee talks advance.

The two presidents also signed a security cooperation deal and discussed joint gas development during their meeting on 4 April

Ukraine destroyed one Inokhodets UAV worth millions at Crimea's Kirovskoe airfield; Alchevsk steel plant, a T-90M tank supplier, halted after drone strike.

Iran is unlikely to relinquish control of the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway carrying a fifth of the world's oil — because doing so would surrender the only leverage it holds over Washington, US intelligence reports have concluded.

Russia launched 286 drones at Ukraine overnight on 3–4 April and, as the attack wound down, struck a market in Nikopol, killing five and wounding 19, according to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Air Force.

They had Kremlin-issued permits to be involved in the looting of Ukrainian cultural heritage

A country that was mediating between Washington and Tehran as recently as February is now lobbying for a military coalition to seize Iranian-held islands and clear the Strait of Hormuz by force — a strategic about-face driven by nearly 2,500 Iranian missiles and drones that have hit Dubai's airports, hotels, and airline routes.

Ukraine is working to give its low-cost interceptor drones — which can cost as little as $1,200 — the ability to operate in swarms, as Kyiv looks to scale up air defenses against Russian attacks that last week included nearly 1,000 drones in a single day.

Ukraine's drone forces have two new senior commanders whose stated task includes closing the Drone Line continuously along the entire contact line, according to SBS chief Robert "Madyar" Brovdi.

Oil tankers, stolen grain, occupied ports: Ukraine's military intelligence has expanded its maritime blacklist to 51 vessels, and is now addressing ship captains directly, warning that liability for participating in Russia's operations "is inevitable."

Ukraine has recorded more than 217,000 war crimes since Russia's full-scale invasion, but its courts have delivered just 245 verdicts — 23 of them with the defendant physically present. With the ICC prosecuting only senior commanders, the rest falls to a judiciary running at roughly half its required staffing, according to a Suspilne investigation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed on security and defense cooperation with the UAE after meeting President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with Ukrainian military specialists already deployed in the country for several weeks ahead of the visit.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas to "step back" and handle Russia diplomacy herself after she pressed him over Washington's failure to increase pressure on Moscow at a G7 ministerial in France, Axios reported

"What has been promised to Ukraine must reach Ukraine" — Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen, announcing that Helsinki will audit US compliance with contracts under which European NATO members purchased weapons for Ukraine from American suppliers.