{"id":4421,"date":"2026-03-31T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/ukraine-daily-update-march-31-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:05:49","slug":"ukraine-daily-update-march-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/ukraine-daily-update-march-31-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine daily update March 31, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saw 20 days in Mariupol recently and actually remembered the bombing of the maternity ward and how Russia claimed that it was Ukrainian &#8220;crisis actors&#8221; so they were innocent. Here in the film were the journalists&#8217; own footage &#8211; the raw material in long sequences, the hospital was completely bombed out by several direct hits, heavily pregnant women injured and newborns who died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, everything was supposed to be nuanced, even Reuters gave the Kremlin a channel&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russia-says-there-was-no-air-strike-ukraine-hospital-2022-03-10\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russia-says-there-was-no-air-strike-ukraine-hospital-2022-03-10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in Swedish media it was &#8220;Ukraine claims&#8221;, &#8220;Russia claims&#8221; for several years and we absolutely screamed about it on the other blog &#8211; so in hindsight, we were completely right in our criticism but my goodness how the world has dragged its feet on this and what trauma Ukraine is still experiencing over four years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bombings now in 2025-2026 are as intense as in the beginning of the war and the atrocities just as horrifying as when we saw the video of a Ukrainian war prisoner castrated in front of laughing Russian soldiers. Or the story of how Chechen Kadyrovites raped, tortured, and finally murdered a five-year-old girl in front of her bound mother and then laughed when they released her and she failed to take her own life in front of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine and Zelensky have now made a decision to do what is necessary to win, recently the US asked them not to target goals that were good for US future business but the oil terminals are burning like on Walpurgis Night &#8211; this was a rumor that I don&#8217;t believe was confirmed by Ukraine themselves but was highly likely so I chose to report on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelensky has recently criticized Trump in the media just below the level of not printing out the name, and Trump is a petty jerk. Then Ukraine goes and saves the countries in the Middle East from US mistakes and has ten-year defense contracts with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio has surely tried to reason with Europe at the G7 meeting about the Ukraine war because here comes an ATOMIC BOMB from Zelensky himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below link, &#8220;our partners&#8221; are thus PLURAL and you know just like I do that it mainly refers to the USA and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now Europe is asking Ukraine to pause the bombing of Russian oil installations. What is not said is that the reason for this is that the US is bombing oil installations in the MENA region which Europe has NOT asked the US to stop, because we are afraid of the US and dependent on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!FeHk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F003a528c-0503-4d45-9cea-9a21ffe4d63c_828x729.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!FeHk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F003a528c-0503-4d45-9cea-9a21ffe4d63c_828x729.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:293px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the war has reached Russia in earnest and complaints are starting inside Russia and previously hugely positive milbloggers are now super negative &#8211; this is perfect but now Europe and the US ONCE AGAIN want to try to slow down Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are guys with millions of followers who influence opinion in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!YO3E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7dc5c57e-40f2-40f9-a691-e2859fae6266_828x895.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!YO3E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7dc5c57e-40f2-40f9-a691-e2859fae6266_828x895.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing the Russian elite is afraid of is popular uprising and if there&#8217;s rumbling in the depths of the people because Ukraine is doing something that works, then Europe should ask Ukraine to double their efforts, not try to stop them &#8211; hypocrites, cowards, scared cowards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m at the level of upset like when you discover that the barbecue chips have crumbled in the bag only when you&#8217;re home &#8211; so very high blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you&#8217;re probably thinking right away that Johan No.1 is not right because I haven&#8217;t read this in my media channels yet and you&#8217;re wrong as usual but to drive home how damn behind we still are in Europe, I&#8217;m posting an open dispute Ukraine has with Rheinmetall&#8217;s CEO, yes, their CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says that the Ukrainian drone industry is &#8220;housewives building LEGO&#8221; &#8211; what extreme arrogance from someone with insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who did MENA turn to to buy anti-drone capabilities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which weapons have not worked against drone warfare in 2026 in MENA?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many offensive drones has Europe shot down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/rheinmetall-backtracks-after-ceo-derides-ukrainian-drones-praises-kyivs-innovation\">https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/rheinmetall-backtracks-after-ceo-derides-ukrainian-drones-praises-kyivs-innovation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established media, our leaders, officials in critical positions have consistently failed over four long years in the Ukraine war and yet Ukraine still defends us and gives us peace &#8211; this is completely incomprehensible and goes beyond all logical explanations so we are left with the alternatives of bad leaders in good times, career politicians&#8217; DNA, and Russian infiltration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the US suddenly changes course and does exactly everything they&#8217;ve prevented Ukraine from doing is hypocrisy on a level that would make anyone feel unfairly treated but suddenly the law of the strong applies and a cowardly and frightened Europe cowers instead &#8211; damn clowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has now ranted at length about what he thinks &#8211; he thinks it&#8217;s time for Ukraine to give up so we can have peace in the world, lost the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to worry about Europe and that we won&#8217;t resist, especially against the US later this spring because we&#8217;ve reached a critical level with the Hormuz and the Red Sea so we&#8217;re basically dependent on oil and LNG from the US for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know my opinion on the matter &#8211; by design from the US, and now the gas reserves are empty in Europe. We have 5-6 months to replenish them at the same time as UA&#8217;s offensive operations increase significantly and at some point Russia will want to put a stop to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We caved with Iran and are now supposed to protect the Hormuz Strait which the US could have done themselves, Europe gets its oil and LNG from the US, Kazakhstan, and Australia in addition to Norway of course so why do we really care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(by the way, that was exactly what I guessed we would do in the post about the different blocs the other week, right &#8211; predictable cowards).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have also just approved the trade agreement with the US after Trump said that if we want his LNG, we have to approve it &#8211; just that alone should have made us not approve it but we bent over and smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I wrote the other day that we shouldn&#8217;t provoke the US as we&#8217;ve put ourselves in a position of dependence but we have certain red lines that will harm us if we&#8217;re not careful, and Ukraine is the most important one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the most important red line for future generations we just gave in to by putting pressure on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US does NOT want Ukraine to win the war in the way Ukraine wants &#8211; we KNOW that, it is indisputable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way for Ukraine to achieve lasting peace is to succeed in dragging Russia into a violent civil war and then mine the border inside or outside the six oblasts closest to them, and ensure that the country is divided into about ten new countries so that Russia becomes weaker than today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US and Ukraine are on a direct collision course to the point where I&#8217;m starting to wonder if the US is about to take coercive measures against Ukraine soon but what&#8217;s best for Ukraine is what&#8217;s best for Europe both in the short and long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about the US fortifying Crimea?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Hear me out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a situation where Ukraine is about to conquer Crimea, the USA flies in a battalion from the 82nd Airborne Division and then some ships, declaring that in order to ensure future peace and stability in the Black Sea, the USA will take care of security on the peninsula and bring peace to the world. Since neither Ukraine nor Russia can maintain control of the area, they are doing what is best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t find it unlikely at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelensky has recently complained that Europe is not even providing money to Ukraine now, and they are running out of resources for their war material production. Without grenades, the artillery falls silent. Yes, money is probably still being sent from individual countries, but we must fully finance this, and another interruption like we have seen several times over the past 4 long years where the artillery fell completely silent would be fatal now and would pull the rug out from under Ukraine again &#8211; which is, of course, the intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this fails again this summer because Europe does not dare to oppose the USA\/Russia, as we have become dependent on all sorts of things with 100% import, I will be less than thrilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are not there yet, but when things go too well for Ukraine, Russia will propose a ceasefire, and THEN Europe MUST stand by Ukraine&#8217;s side; otherwise, there might be a ceasefire, and all will be wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IF there is a ceasefire this summer, Russia\/USA will be very strict in ensuring that it is followed &#8211; in Ukraine &#8211; and then move capabilities to another place, for example, the Baltics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will then release 700,000 troops with combat experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Europe&#8217;s single most important event in 2026, and how we respond to Russian-American demands for a ceasefire will determine our lives for a long time to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we can&#8217;t even support our friends who are taking the full blow themselves, then we are nothing, right? We are hypocrites and cowards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a worst-case scenario, if Ukraine feels so betrayed that they join forces with Russia and move westward &#8211; how do you think Europe will fare then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe is walking a very fine line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1940, the whole of Europe was overrun after throwing Poland under the bus, not because we had less equipment and manpower, on the contrary &#8211; we had many more soldiers, more modern and more numerous aircraft and tanks, but we were tactically outclassed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The losses of the Allies (KWIA+prisoners) in the summer months of 1940 were over +3 million men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany simply moved its forces first to Poland and then to France, even though the French attempted a small offensive when the Germans were weak &#8211; poorly executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to the drone weapon we do not have today, as Ukraine has shown us wins wars because it accounts for 80% of the losses &#8211; and Russia already has them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has already shown Europe that we will suffer catastrophic losses in a drone-saturated combat environment, but also that we have not learned anything in four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Europe&#8217;s last chance, and Trump will use all the pressure he has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you read my previous post, you know that the third world war is already underway, as Budanov also says now, even though all sensible people think Johan No.1 is exaggerating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2026\/03\/27\/8027380\">https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2026\/03\/27\/8027380<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you have a theory about the drones in the Baltics, by the way &#8211; alternative explanations that are all crap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2026\/03\/27\/ukrainian-drones-hit-all-three-baltic-states-did-russia-redirect-them\">https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2026\/03\/27\/ukrainian-drones-hit-all-three-baltic-states-did-russia-redirect-them<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries around the world have started to keep quiet about what is happening, unfortunately, so it is harder to get information outside the Ukraine war, but now perhaps the losses for the USA are increasing in the Iran war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One fact about the Iran war is that both aircraft carriers have left the area, so one can guess that their aircraft are still needed, so it was not because they ran out of targets to attack &#8211; that is likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my extensive leading post about Iran, I asked why Iran initiated the first strike, and now Iran has said that they were deceived, so we probably have the answer to that question &#8211; the USA deceived Iran that the negotiations would continue, a reverse Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also asked why terrorism has not started or drones targeting Western targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both have now started with a bang &#8211; this tells us that Iran has a lot of hidden terrorist capabilities among us, even though we have to guess who has flown about twenty advanced drones over Bakersfield so far. We know that China has infiltrated SOF for a couple of years, films at the border to Mexico showing Asian four-man groups in short clips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has already shown us that half of critical capabilities can be taken out with a well-executed operation, and Europe\/USA are much less prepared for sabotage operations than Russia was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You also know from my previous posts that a popular revolution is a crucial part of the plan here because without it, nothing will really improve for anyone in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel is working against it more than the USA, but right now, the citizens have been told to stay home for a while &#8211; the popular uprising has not happened yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the spring, an attempt will be made, and if it fails, the USA will probably withdraw after placing their soldiers on oil exports and Hormuz and declare a resounding victory with the entire MENA destabilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I believe that the war is justified because the threat from Iran is and was significant, and it was increasing because they were part of the global escalation. Iran has provided martyrs to Russia, and initially, they were controlled by Iranian operators in Ukraine. More and more people in Sweden are now doing Iran&#8217;s bidding &#8211; Reinfeldt and Carl Bildt were the first, and now it&#8217;s Anne Ramberg. Surprised, absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then you have to follow through and not just make a quick smash-and-grab coup and then pass the problem on to others who will be worse off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several reasons to worry about the Iran conflict, one being that the USA and Israel provoked the Iranian retaliation on oil infrastructure throughout MENA, but then there is also this &#8211; now there are long convoys of Shiite militias from Iraq on their way to Iran. Where are the A10 Warthogs, Apaches, and drones against these very easy targets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202603303830\">https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202603303830<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have now seen videos of them arriving in Tehran &#8211; how is it possible that long convoys of hundreds of pickups could travel from Iraq to Tehran without being attacked?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When something doesn&#8217;t fit, you can either dismiss it or start suspecting a hidden agenda &#8211; we&#8217;ll see, but this is a very red warning flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISIS was by design, we know that now, and how the USA has acted with Syria has led to destabilization beyond betraying their longest allies, the Kurds, who were the guarantors of stability in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why they would allow Iraqi militias into Iran, I still don&#8217;t understand, but it took me two weeks to understand why Israel and the USA started attacking Iranian oil infrastructure, so it will probably become clear. Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t much discussion when I ask these open questions other than readers thinking I am exaggerating, which I am not at all.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>China has started to move in a way that suggests they are expecting war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigations\/china-is-mapping-ocean-floor-it-prepares-submarine-warfare-with-us-2026-03-24\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigations\/china-is-mapping-ocean-floor-it-prepares-submarine-warfare-with-us-2026-03-24<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has also confirmed that China sent advanced anti-ship missiles to Iran and tried to combat aircraft carriers. He said this in a public appearance, and even though he is notoriously unreliable as a source, it is a confirmation because the assumption we made was qualified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China knows that their technological platform is inferior, but they also know they have quantity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the various outcomes of our current global conflict, I would rather see an active global conflict where the US and China hammer each other until they get tired, rather than Russia &#8211; US &#8211; China already dividing the world among themselves and doing as they please in their spheres of interest where no one else can challenge them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia &#8211; US have already done it, but if US &#8211; China have done it, we do not know yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a global conflict, the world will not want more war, but if we already have a new cold war, it is oppression for many countries instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China, the US, and Russia all behave in the same way, just different degrees of evil &#8211; now the US is going to take down Cuba, which I do not support at all, and Venezuela was not justified either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ukraine, Russia has shown its true face, and so has China &#8211; all three are imperialists who gladly enslave others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the three, the only one not actively at war yet is China; we had a long post about Taiwan, but what will likely determine the outcome is who has mastered drone weaponry best, which we can assume is China, present in Ukraine. The US has not done so, and Taiwan heavily relies on the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan is an island, and the US is preoccupied with Iran, even though the 7th fleet and at least two aircraft carrier groups are in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s airbases\/fleet are prime targets, and China will naturally carry out a first strike; saw an interesting piece about China taking old fighter jets and turning them into guided drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-asia-times wp-block-embed-asia-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CwWD8GgMct\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/03\/china-turning-cold-war-jets-into-budget-taiwan-strike-drones\/\">China turning Cold War jets into budget Taiwan strike drones<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" 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under its arms completely since around 2023, so the Russian threat to Europe has been built up by China &#8211; and that is a threat to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have speculated a lot, and the next best thing for China is probably to turn against Russia instead of territory, maybe that&#8217;s why the US wants to get an intact Russia on its side against China &#8211; all guesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is well known, I am of the opinion that China will probably test its wings, they have the right ingredients for it and probably the same type of situation as Russia; if they back down now, their leadership is in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three show dictatorship ambitions towards the countries within their spheres of interest &#8211; we may very well be heading towards a new cold war when they consider that the cost of war is too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe has a great opportunity to be a positive counterbalance to all of this by simply tying countries to us with trade agreements, but we also 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