Ukraine's role in Middle East war could boost its negotiating leverage – expert
Ukraine's wartime experience can be leveraged into additional security guarantees and stronger negotiating positions for the country.
23 March 2026
Ukraine's wartime experience can be leveraged into additional security guarantees and stronger negotiating positions for the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia is planning to further deploy ground-based control stations for long-range drones, both in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories and in Belarus.
The Russian army has attacked the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces 116 times since the beginning of the day. The enemy is exerting the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk sector and is showing increased activity in the Kostiantynivka and Huliaipole sectors.
Ukrainian service members are continuing professional training on foreign weapons and military equipment abroad, and for this year, basic combined-arms training activities are planned in three EU countries.
Risks to Europe from Russia in the hybrid domain could increase significantly in the coming years, even before Moscow finishes rebuilding its military capabilities.
The Ministry of Defense has codified and authorized the Ukrainian-made unmanned aerial system JEDI Shahed Hunter for operation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The settlements of Platonivka and Minkivka in Donetsk region are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Andrii Hnatov, during a meeting with Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Admiral Pierre Vandier, stated that Ukraine is ready to share its combat experience with partners in the context of high-tech warfare.
Amid media reports that Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto allegedly shared details of discussions from EU ministerial meetings with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the European Commission has expressed concern and requested explanations from Budapest.
Satellite images indicate that after the Ukrainian strike, at least four oil tanks are burning at one of Russia’s largest export oil terminals, "Transneft – Port Primorsk."
In the Kherson region, Russian forces shelled Bilozerka, where two people were wounded; the central part of Kherson and the settlement of Zelenivka also came under attack in the morning.
In the Kherson region, Russian forces shelled Bilozerka, where two people were wounded; the central part of Kherson and the settlement of Zelenivka also came under attack in the morning.
All Western intelligence agencies, including European and American ones, miscalculated the duration of Russia’s war against Ukraine, significantly underestimating Ukrainian resilience and defence readiness.
For many years, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) assessed Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia much more soberly and critically than the federal government, and recognized early on the resurgence of Russian imperialism and Ukraine’s central role in this strategy.
Russian troops have intensified their offensive operations across several fronts—between March 17 and 20, the Russian army carried out 619 assaults.
Last weekend, Russian forces damaged two schools in the Shevchenkove community of the Kupiansk district.
The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police of Ukraine detained a Russian agent within a few hours who carried out a double terrorist attack in Bucha, Kyiv region, on the morning of March 23.
The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police of Ukraine detained a Russian agent within a few hours who carried out a double terrorist attack in Bucha, Kyiv region, on the morning of March 23.
Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck Russian air defense systems and drone depots.
Defense Forces have struck key fuel and energy infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation. Specifically, these include the Transneft – Port Primorsk oil terminal and the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil refinery.
Injury toll after the Russian drone attack on Kryvyi Rih has increased to four. One of them is in critical condition.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service of Ukraine to initiate sanctions against a former member of parliament from the banned Party of Regions, who is one of the suspects in the land fraud case at the Stolychnyi market.
In frontline regions, new power outages have occurred as a result of enemy shelling and drone attacks.
Russia is trying to catch up with Ukraine in the production of naval drones; the Defense Forces consider this threat real and are preparing for it.
Claims regarding Russian troop advances in Vovchansk and Synkivka are unfounded.
Russian authorities reported a massive drone attack early Monday morning; at the port in Primorsk, Leningrad region, a fuel tank was damaged in the attack, which caused a fire.
In a village in the Novyi Bilous community in the Chernihiv region, a local woman who was working in her garden at the time was injured as a result of a drone attack by Russian forces.
On the morning of Monday, March 23, two explosions occurred in Bucha, Kyiv region, and two law enforcement officers were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces attacked nine settlements in the Kharkiv region with guided bombs and drones; a woman was injured.
The Russian troops have attacked Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region again, damaging infrastructure and injuring two people.