https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/27/8032005/
"Here in Rzeszów, I want to emphasise very clearly that Polish-Ukrainian relations and relations between Europe and Ukraine are not one-way assistance to a country at war. We have succeeded – and Poland has succeeded because we were a...
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04/28/hungarys-incoming-pm-peter-magyar-offers-to-meet-ukraines-president-in-june
"I am initiating a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for early June, symbolically in Berehove, which has a Hungarian majority," Magyar said in a social...
https://theconversation.com/ukraine-is-countering-the-impact-of-the-war-in-iran-by-attacking-russian-energy-facilities-280204
The Ukrainian attacks have prevented Russia from effectively exploiting higher oil prices — and its own war effort in Ukraine is facing a sustained challenge as well.
I’m certainly not a scholar, but the idea is similar to North Korea’s "permanent" war stance where it “uses the threat of external conflict to justify the nation’s massive military budget and maintain domestic control”.
In the article Putin uses the Ukraine war for the same justification.
https://www.rferl.org/a/china-eu-export-controls-russia-sanctions-taiwan-april-24-2026/33741631.html
These latest punitive measures from Brussels focus on tackling ways Russia seeks to circumvent existing sanctions, including through countries such as China and the United Arab Emirates.
As...
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-23-2026/
The Kremlin continues to set conditions for possible future aggression against Baltic states. The Russian Security Council accused Lithuanian authorities on April 23 of creating a “hotbed of...
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04/22/exclusive-hungarys-new-government-to-review-orbans-eu-defence-plan-over-corruption-concern
The corruption risks referred to are understood to relate to Hungarian industrial interests with ties to Viktor Orbán's outgoing government.