Ukraine hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet command post in Sevastopol. Russia doubled attacks on the Ukrainian railways in March, analysis shows. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps for the EU to unblock a 90 billion euro loan, Zelenskyi says.
Ukraine hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet command post in Sevastopol
Ukrainian forces struck the Streletsky command post of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol and a number of other sites on Tuesday and overnight on Wednesday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
They also hit a drone command post in Korovyakovka and Tyotkino in Russia’s Kursk region, and a Molniya drone command post near the village of Dobrolyubivka in Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian troops also struck a command post near the village of Vyazovoye in Russia’s Belgorod region.
They also hit command and observation posts near the village of Zatyshne in the occupied part of Donetsk region and Vysokoye in Russia’s Belgorod region.
A Russian troop concentration was struck near Hrafske in Donetsk region.
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Russia doubled attacks on Ukrainian railways in March, analysis shows
Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s railway infrastructure since the full-scale invasion. It further stepped up the attacks in spring 2026, The New Voice of Ukraine said Wednesday. While the monthly average in the first quarter stood at 80, it exceeded 200 in March.
A Russian drone attack at a sorting yard at the Zaporizhzhia-Live station in the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight on Wednesday killed an assistant train driver. The train driver was hospitalized.
Russia has been increasingly disrupting Ukraine’s railway logistics through targeted strikes since July 2025 to achieve partial BAI (battlefield air interdiction) effects and degrade the efficacy of Ukrainian frontline defenses, and Ukrainian reporting indicates that Russian forces are only intensifying this effort going into spring 2026, the Institute for the Study of War said on March 4.
Ukraine’s railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia stepped up safety rules late last month. It now orders passenger evacuations in case there is a direct threat to trains during the attacks.
Russian strikes damaged a total of 25,836 railway facilities as of March 2026, including 1,704 freight cars, 341 locomotives, 319 passenger cars, 117 train stations and 73 passenger stations, The New Voice of Ukraine said, citing data by Ukrzaliznytsia.
At least 39 railway employees were killed in Russian aerial attacks while at work.
Russia launched six strikes a day on average on Ukrainian railway infrastructure in March 2026.
Ukraine has taken all necessary steps for EU to unblock 90 billion euro loan, Zelenskyi says
Ukraine has taken all necessary steps for the EU to unblock a 90 billion euro loan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in a post to social media Tuesday. He also said he had discussed it with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“These funds will strengthen not only Ukraine but all of Europe, and it is important that we begin receiving them soon. All necessary steps on Ukraine’s side have been taken,” Zelenskyi said in a post to X.
The Ukrainian operator, Ukrtransnafta, notified the Hungarian oil company MOL that it had completed repair works on the Druzhba pipeline.
“JSC Ukrtransnafta, the company responsible for operating the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline, has officially informed MOL that repair works on the Druzhba Pipeline have been completed and that the force majeure conditions in effect since 27 January 2026 ceased as of 6pm on 21 April 2026. According to the notification, JSC Ukrtransnafta is ready to resume crude oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia,” the Hungarian oil company MOL said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian section of the Druzhba oil pipeline was damaged on January 27, 2026 in a Russian aerial attack. Hungary that had Russian oil flowing through it, refused to acknowledge that the damage was serious, The New Voice of Ukraine said Wednesday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accused Ukraine of deliberately blocking the pipeline’s restart.
European Union leaders agreed in December 2025 to loan Ukraine 90 billion euros for the next two years.
Orbán blocked the loan and blackmailed Ukraine, demanding that the pipeline resume operation.
Ukraine has repaired the Druzhba oil pipeline, Zelenskyi said Tuesday.
Ukraine expects oil to resume flowing through the Druzhba pipeline as soon as Tuesday, clearing the way for the European Union to unblock a much-needed €90 billion ($106 billion) loan for Kyiv, Bloomberg News said Monday.
A €90 billion ($106 billion) EU loan to Ukraine received preliminary approval from the 27 EU countries on Wednesday after several months during which Hungary exercised its veto, diplomats said, according to Deutsche Welle.
Péter Magyar, the winner of the Hungarian elections and the country’s incoming prime minister, has called on Viktor Orbán to lift his controversial veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before vacating his office in May, Euronews said last week.