On Thursday, 30 March, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will deliver a speech to the members of the National Council of Austria, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament.

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, sees the possible deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus as a threat to European security.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine officially responded to Russia's intention to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Germany has provided Ukraine with a new package of military assistance, which included Dachs engineering vehicles, machine guns and spare parts for armoured vehicles.

Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, has suggested that diplomacy may still play a role, as Kyiv may decide not to regain all the territories by military means.

Russia's training of military personnel based on the weaker Belarusian army shows that the war in Ukraine has seriously disrupted the training system of the Russian military.

The European Council has supported the establishment of an international mechanism to register the damages Russia has inflicted during its military invasion of Ukraine. 

The European Council condemned on Thursday Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the military assistance provided to Russia by other states.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his video address to the EU leaders at the summit, has suggested holding a "peace plan summit" in one of the European capitals.

The European Union expressed its full support to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after threats by the Russian Security Council deputy head, Dmitry Medvedev, to hit the courthouse in The Hague with a hypersonic missile.

Ukrainian pilots have been trained to operate anti-aircraft defence systems, as well as survival in the event of ejection over enemy territory.

Slovakia has handed over the first four MiG-29 fighters to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Hungary will not arrest the Russian leader if he comes to the country, despite the arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Czech Republic has been helping Ukraine with arms supplies as much as possible, but it only has a few options for further assistance.

EU heads of state and government are meeting on Thursday 23 March in Brussels for a spring summit: one of the topics of discussion is the issue of providing Ukraine with ammunition.

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, has met with Andrii Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, in Brussels. They discussed holding Russia accountable for the war and crimes committed.

The Annual Report issued by Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, provides an estimate of the total amount of assistance that member states have provided to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, stated that there are signs that Russia has requested lethal aid from China to bolster the full-scale war in Ukraine.

The UK plans to hand over armour piercing round with depleted uranium and Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine.

The Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster, rather than the newer M1A2.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola have held a telephone conversation in which the key topic was the creation of a tribunal for the crime of aggression committed by the Russian Federation.

The European Union paid Ukraine on Tuesday the second tranche of macro-financial aid amounting to 1.5 billion euros from the package of 18 billion euros.

So far, 18 countries plan to participate in the project on joint purchase of ammunition to help Ukraine and replenish the national reserves of member states. In addition, others expressed their readiness to join later.

Boris Pistorius, Head of the Ministry of Defence of Germany, said that the German Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), the transfer of which Berlin announced in January, are already on their way to Ukraine.

Latvians support Ukraine not only rationally but through absolute conviction and emotions because in the past Russia did the same to them as it is doing to Ukrainians now.

European Union foreign affairs and defence ministers have reached an agreement on a two-billion-euro plan to raid their stockpiles and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell hopes that EU countries will agree on a multipronged initiative aimed at speeding up supplies and bolstering their defence industries on Monday.

A decision by the Russian occupation authorities to declare Melitopol as "the capital" of the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast means they cannot implement their plans for advancing further.