Ukraine has been waiting for months for the US Congress to release urgently needed aid funds. House Republican leader Mike Johnson promised that Congress would take up the Ukraine issue “immediately” after the break in early April.

The Dutch government announced on Wednesday evening that it would support Ukraine with bombs worth 150 million euros and a further 200 million euros for the purchase of drones. Help is now coming from the Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has announced that it will buy 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine from non-EU countries.