Mar 28

On 27 March, a coalition of organisations, activists, and citizens gathered outside the Federal Council of Ministers, demanding that Belgium stop hedging and start choosing.

The demonstration, organised by the European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine and Steun Oekraïens Verzet, delivered a message: commit to Ukraine’s victory, or own the consequences of failing to do so.

Earlier, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever described Russia’s defeat as “a fairy tale” and “a complete illusion,” and argued it would not even be desirable.

He blocked a reparation loan backed by frozen Russian assets in December 2025.

Last week, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán blocked a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, a move that followed Belgium’s earlier opposition and now places Ukraine at genuine risk of losing the funding it needs to defend itself.

De Wever has also recently been suggesting the normalisation of economic relations with Russia after a “peace deal”.

Olena Kuzhym, coordinator of the Brussels protest, named the pattern directly: “He has all the instruments in his hands to help Ukraine, and instead of using them, he is basically calling the situation desperate.”

Co-organiser Michael Desloover put it plainly, “‘Not abandoning Ukraine’ is not enough, without Ukraine’s victory and Russia’s defeat, a lasting peace is not possible.”

Russia is not ambiguous about what this war is. It says openly that it targets all of Europe, and backs that statement with daily hybrid attacks.

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The United States is conditioning its security guarantee offer on Ukraine ceding all of Donbas to Russia — a position President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed to Reuters in an interview.

“The Americans are prepared to finalise these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ready to withdraw from Donbas,” Zelenskyy said.

That condition is indistinguishable from Russia’s own stated war aim. Vladimir Putin has called full control of Donbas a non-negotiable objective, to be secured at the negotiating table or on the battlefield. Zelenskyy, who has not attended any of the three rounds of US-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi and Geneva, said he nonetheless understands Washington’s posture — and linked it to Trump’s parallel focus on Iran. Trump, he said, “still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”

Russian advances toward full control of Donbas have been slow for two years. Military analysts cited by Reuters say the region’s Fortress Belt of heavily fortified cities would require significant time and manpower to capture — making the battlefield route costly and uncertain for Moscow.

Yet three rounds of trilateral talks have left the two questions Zelenskyy calls essential entirely unresolved: who funds Ukraine’s post-deal weapons purchases to sustain deterrence, and how exactly allied countries would respond to renewed Russian aggression after any agreement is signed.

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Ukraine’s “Magyar’s Birds” drone brigade destroyed a Russian Tor air defense system in Luhansk Oblast, working with the Deep Strike Center.

Ukraine has destroyed over 27 Russian anti-air assets in the first half of March alone — each one punches a new hole in the air defense screen protecting Russia’s rear.

📹 Unmanned Systems Forces

Video here :

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/171p9EDhLo/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Ukrainian drones struck the Yaroslavl oil refinery — one of Russia’s top-5 largest, processing over 15 million tons of crude annually. A fire has broken out.

The facility sits 700 km from Ukraine and has been targeted before.

📷 Exilenova+

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh and left with a defense deal. It could reshape how the Middle East protects its skies amid Iran’s terror strikes.

Over four years of full-scale war, Russia has fired more than 58,000 Iranian-designed drones at Ukrainian cities. Ukraine has intercepted the vast majority of them.

No country on earth has more real-world experience defeating the exact weapon system that Saudi Arabia currently fears from Iran itself.

The agreement opens the door to joint contracts, technological projects, and security investments. Ukrainian experts are already on the ground in Saudi Arabia, having delivered their initial findings on air defense vulnerabilities and proposed solutions.

Ukraine has what Riyadh needs. Riyadh has the resources and technologies Ukraine wants. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/27/ukraine-signs-defense-pact-with-saudi-arabia-after-its-experts-spent-week-finding-holes-in-regions-air-defenses/

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While Russia wages war on Ukraine, Ukrainians are building an economy inside Poland and outpacing everyone else doing it.

In 2025, Ukrainian citizens opened 3,200 new companies in Poland, more than any other nationality by a wide margin.

The closest competition was Belarusian entrepreneurs, who registered 2,000 companies.

After them, the Chinese founders managed around 610, the Germans approximately 514.

According to Poland’s Office for Foreigners, there were 1.55 million Ukrainian citizens in Poland in 2025 — the largest foreign group in the country, representing 78% of all foreigners, most of them on temporary protection status.

These are people who left under fire, often with children, often with nothing. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/27/ukrainians-opened-record-number-of-businesses-in-this-european-country-nearest-competitor-managed-2000/