Ukraine records first territorial gains since 2023 amid Russian army woes — Al Jazeera
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The head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission on Saturday threatened to attack Ukraine, claiming Kyiv had become a “legitimate target” by supplying drone technology to Israel.
Ebrahim Azizi justified his warning by citing Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which recognizes a country’s right to individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs.
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“By providing drone support to the Israeli regime, failed Ukraine has effectively become involved in the War and, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, has turned its entire territory into a legitimate target for Iran,” Azizi said in a post on the social platform X.
Azizi did not offer any specific evidence to support his claim, which came as the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign entered its third week.
(The Shahed drones being used in Tehran’s retaliatory attacks are the same Iranian-designed systems that Russia, a close ally of theirs, has deployed extensively against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022)
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Ebrahim Azizi justified his warning by citing Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which recognizes a country’s right to individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs.
Zelensky: Russia providing Iran with Shahed drones used against US bases — The Hill
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia provided Iran Shahed drones that were later used on U.S. bases.
Azizi did not offer any specific evidence to support his claim, which came as the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign entered its third week.
(The Shahed drones being used in Tehran’s retaliatory attacks are the same Iranian-designed systems that Russia, a close ally of theirs, has deployed extensively against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022)
Iranian lawmaker cites UN charter in calling Ukraine ‘legitimate target’ for helping Israel with drones — The Hill
The head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission on Saturday threatened to attack Ukraine, claiming Kyiv had become a “legitimate target” by supplying drone technology to Israel.
What does Ukraine gain by stepping in to help US/Israel in a fight they are losing?The head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission on Saturday threatened to attack Ukraine, claiming Kyiv had become a “legitimate target” by supplying drone technology to Israel.
Ebrahim Azizi justified his warning by citing Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which recognizes a country’s right to individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs.
“By providing drone support to the Israeli regime, failed Ukraine has effectively become involved in the War and, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, has turned its entire territory into a legitimate target for Iran,” Azizi said in a post on the social platform X.Zelensky: Russia providing Iran with Shahed drones used against US bases — The Hill
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia provided Iran Shahed drones that were later used on U.S. bases.
Azizi did not offer any specific evidence to support his claim, which came as the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign entered its third week.
(The Shahed drones being used in Tehran’s retaliatory attacks are the same Iranian-designed systems that Russia, a close ally of theirs, has deployed extensively against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022)
Iranian lawmaker cites UN charter in calling Ukraine ‘legitimate target’ for helping Israel with drones — The Hill
The head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission on Saturday threatened to attack Ukraine, claiming Kyiv had become a “legitimate target” by supplying drone technology to Israel.
What does Iran gain by supplying drones to Russia to use against Ukraine for the last several years, and then having a tantrum because the reverse happens?
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Canada sends another $51 million to Ukraine
Friday's money is part of the nearly $26 billion sent to Ukraine by Canada since the war began in February 2022
Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Apr 03, 2026 • Last updated 23 hours ago • 2 minute read
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) shakes hands Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney during their meeting prior the talks in Kyiv on Aug. 24, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) shakes hands Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney during their meeting prior the talks in Kyiv on Aug. 24, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY /AFP via Getty Images
OTTAWA — Canada is sending another $51-million aid package to Ukraine.
The money, announced Friday by Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai, will go towards humanitarian relief, preparing Ukraine for post-war elections, and support for veterans of the war against the now four-year old Russian invasion.
Friday’s money is part of the nearly $26 billion sent to Ukraine by Canada since the war began in February 2022, funding that encompasses direct aid, purchases or transfer of military equipment, humanitarian aid, and financial loans.
Bulk of funding going to humanitarian aid
According to a backgrounder published by Global Affairs Canada, $32.1 million will go to a variety of “trusted partners” in the region to provide humanitarian relief, including the Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada, the International Committee of the Red Cross, HelpAge Canada, the International Medical Corps, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Food Programme.
This support, the background said, will go towards “urgent humanitarian needs,” including shelter, water, sanitation, food, and emergency health care for impacted civilians.
As well, $5 million will go towards UN Women to support “inclusive recovery and EU accession of Ukraine,” as well as $2 million to the United Nations Development Programme, bringing Canada’s contributions for that program to $19.5 million.
Aid for post-war elections, war veterans
Of the money announced Friday, $6 million will help Ukraine conduct fair and free elections once hostilities are concluded.
Those millions will go towards International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, which Global Affairs Canada says will facilitate “the conduct of credible, inclusive and well-prepared post-war elections,” as well as facilitate administration of elections by Ukrainian government agencies and help combat misinformation and civil oversight.
While Ukraine normally holds regular presidential and parliamentary elections, the Russian invasion has put that on hold.
The last elections carried out in Ukraine took place in 2019, a little under three years before Russia invaded.
Current President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in April 2019, with Parliamentary elections taking place three months later.
As well, the Ukrainian constitution prohibits elections while the country is under martial law — which Ukraine has been under since the invasion began.
In addition, $5 million of the money from Canada will be set aside to support Ukrainian veterans of the Russian invasion, meant to bolster the capacity of Ukraine’s Ministry of Veterans to provide support to veterans and their families.
This latest round of funding comes one month after Canada formalized a $35-million contribution to NATO’s Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine, as part of the 2025 federal budget.
In February, Canada pledged another $2 billion in military aid for Ukraine, as well as applying additional sanctions against the Russian government.
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Friday's money is part of the nearly $26 billion sent to Ukraine by Canada since the war began in February 2022
Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Apr 03, 2026 • Last updated 23 hours ago • 2 minute read
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) shakes hands Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney during their meeting prior the talks in Kyiv on Aug. 24, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) shakes hands Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney during their meeting prior the talks in Kyiv on Aug. 24, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY /AFP via Getty Images
OTTAWA — Canada is sending another $51-million aid package to Ukraine.
The money, announced Friday by Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai, will go towards humanitarian relief, preparing Ukraine for post-war elections, and support for veterans of the war against the now four-year old Russian invasion.
Friday’s money is part of the nearly $26 billion sent to Ukraine by Canada since the war began in February 2022, funding that encompasses direct aid, purchases or transfer of military equipment, humanitarian aid, and financial loans.
Bulk of funding going to humanitarian aid
According to a backgrounder published by Global Affairs Canada, $32.1 million will go to a variety of “trusted partners” in the region to provide humanitarian relief, including the Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada, the International Committee of the Red Cross, HelpAge Canada, the International Medical Corps, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Food Programme.
This support, the background said, will go towards “urgent humanitarian needs,” including shelter, water, sanitation, food, and emergency health care for impacted civilians.
As well, $5 million will go towards UN Women to support “inclusive recovery and EU accession of Ukraine,” as well as $2 million to the United Nations Development Programme, bringing Canada’s contributions for that program to $19.5 million.
Aid for post-war elections, war veterans
Of the money announced Friday, $6 million will help Ukraine conduct fair and free elections once hostilities are concluded.
Those millions will go towards International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, which Global Affairs Canada says will facilitate “the conduct of credible, inclusive and well-prepared post-war elections,” as well as facilitate administration of elections by Ukrainian government agencies and help combat misinformation and civil oversight.
While Ukraine normally holds regular presidential and parliamentary elections, the Russian invasion has put that on hold.
The last elections carried out in Ukraine took place in 2019, a little under three years before Russia invaded.
Current President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in April 2019, with Parliamentary elections taking place three months later.
As well, the Ukrainian constitution prohibits elections while the country is under martial law — which Ukraine has been under since the invasion began.
In addition, $5 million of the money from Canada will be set aside to support Ukrainian veterans of the Russian invasion, meant to bolster the capacity of Ukraine’s Ministry of Veterans to provide support to veterans and their families.
This latest round of funding comes one month after Canada formalized a $35-million contribution to NATO’s Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine, as part of the 2025 federal budget.
In February, Canada pledged another $2 billion in military aid for Ukraine, as well as applying additional sanctions against the Russian government.
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Canada sends another $51 million to Ukraine
Friday's money is part of the nearly $26 billion sent to Ukraine by Canada since the war began in February 2022. Find out more.
They can't even provide fair and free elections in Canada.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban faces the toughest challenge of his 16-year rule in an April 12 election seen as crucial for the influence of supporters of Donald Trump's MAGA movement in Europe. Trump has a MAGA movement in Europe?
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Hungary's strained relations with Ukraine have taken centre stage in the election campaign, with Budapest (Orban) accusing Kyiv (Zelenskiy) of deliberately stopping flows of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline in an effort to sway the ballot.
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The Druzhba pipeline, one of the world's longest oil pipelines, starts in Almetyevsk, Russia, and transports oil over 5,000 kilometers from Russian/Caspian sources to Central Europe. It runs westward, passing through Belarus and Ukraine, where it splits into Northern and Southern branches that serve Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
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Kyiv says the pipeline was damaged by a Russian drone attack in late January and it is fixing it as fast as it can.
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Hungary responded by blocking a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) EU loan for Ukraine, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to say he could give the address of whoever was responsible to the Ukrainian army, who could "speak with him in their own language".
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance (who has made it clear, in the White House, that he’s not a fan of Zelenskyy) said on Wednesday that Ukraine's president had made "scandalous" comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as he echoed Budapest's accusations that Kyiv was using energy supplies to try to influence elections there.
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"It's completely scandalous," Vance said. "You should never have a foreign head of government... threatening the head of government of an allied nation” like Tump has done to Canada, and to Mexico, and to Venezuela, and to Cuba, and to the heads of all the NATO nations, and to Iran, and I believe to Israel, and to China, and to the heads of every almost nation America does trade with, then there’s Denmark specifically over Greenland, and so on and so forth.
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Vance then accused the media of double standards in their coverage of alleged foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in the Hungarian vote? "You saw this back in 2016 where a lot of the American media said that it was a true scandal that the Russian government bought like $500,000 of Facebook advertisements...That's foreign influence," he said?
Budapest has been embroiled in a long‑running dispute with the European Union over issues ranging from judicial independence to the treatment of migrants…
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"But what's not foreign influence is when the European Union threatens billions of dollars withheld from Hungary because you guys protect your borders...What's not foreign influence is when the Ukrainians shut down pipelines, causing suffering among the Hungarian people in an effort to influence an election” bleated Vance.
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(YouTube & Trump and Zelensky Get Into Shouting Match During Meeting)
Vance tries to boost ailing MAGA ally ahead of Hungary election
The vice president was the star attraction at a rally for Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who is trailing in the polls days before Sunday’s vote.
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News Wrap: Vance backs Orbán in visit ahead of Hungarian elections
In our news wrap Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary to back Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s reelection bid, an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq was reportedly released, officials in Turkey say gunmen attacked a building that houses the Israeli consulate and the British...
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Hungary–Ukraine relations - Wikipedia
Druzhba pipeline damaged by fire after January Russian strike, says report — Reuters
The Ukrainian branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which supplies Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, was severely damaged by fire after a Russian attack in late January, Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal told Interfax Ukraine on Tuesday.
JD Vance backs Orbán's re-election bid in Budapest visit and hits out at EU
US Vice-President JD Vance intervenes in the campaign to give Orbán a ringing endorsement in Budapest.
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J. D. Vance Is Definitely Against Foreign Election Interference
The vice president accused the European Union of meddling—as he stumped for Viktor Orbán.
Germany accuses JD Vance of hypocrisy over claim that EU meddled in Hungary’s election
Government spokesperson remarks that the U.S. vice president may himself be guilty of interfering in the vote.
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Budapest has been embroiled in a long‑running dispute with the European Union over issues ranging from judicial independence to the treatment of migrants…
EU to ‘convey concerns’ to US about Vance’s Hungary intervention – as it happened
US vice-president has praised Orbán and criticised EU and UK energy policies in speech at private school in Budapest
Vance hits out at 'scandalous' Zelenskiy comments about Hungary's Orban — Reuters
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that Ukraine's president had made "scandalous" comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as he echoed Budapest's accusations that Kyiv was using energy supplies to try to influence elections there.
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán remains wedded to Trump, as highlighted by JD Vance’s visit to Budapest this week, and Sunday’s election will reveal whether
Opinion | Iran is a turning point for Europe’s liberation – from Donald Trump — Guardian US
The US president’s cry-wolf threats are losing their effect while European leaders are, at last, shifting from sycophancy to opposition, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
Hungary's election could end Orban era and reshape its place in Europe — Reuters
Viktor Orban, uniquely endorsed by both U.S. President Donald Trump and the Kremlin, could lose his 16-year iron grip on power on Sunday, opinion polls indicate, in an election many Hungarians believe will decide their country's fate in Europe.
After 16yrs, and setting up lots of buddies, win or loss, I think Orban will personally do ok. Three years of economic stagnation and soaring living costs, along with the enrichment of oligarchs close to the government, have angered voters, but he does have JD Vance going for him.