March 5 (Reuters) - Ukraine spoke to the United States ⁠about ⁠the possibility of postponing the ⁠next round of trilateral talks with Russia "for a while" and changing ​the location due to the spiraling Iran conflict, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.

The deputy commander of the 33rd Detached Mechanised Brigade's tank battalion, who goes by the callsign Afghan, claims that one Ukrainian UGV armed with a machine gun ambushed a Russian personnel carrier, while a robot defended a Ukrainian position for weeks.

The conflict is draining supplies Ukraine needs for its defense, while surging oil prices are boosting the Russian economy.

Hungary ’s pro-Russian foreign minister Friday accused neighboring Ukraine of seeking to interfere in upcoming Hungarian elections in which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces an unprecedented challenge.

The U.S. and several Gulf nations are talking with Ukraine about buying interceptor drones designed to destroy Iranian-made attack drones.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones.

BUDAPEST, March 5 (Reuters) - Hungary will force neighbouring Ukraine with "political and financial tools" to reopen the key Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungarian refineries, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.

US and Ukrainian negotiators discussed forging a free-trade agreement between their countries as well as a sovereign fund to aid the country’s postwar recovery, according to a top official in Kyiv.