Politico has reported that Germany and the Netherlands support allowing US-made weapons to be purchased using a €90 billion EU loan, while France insists on prioritising European manufacturers.

US President Donald Trump has said he is the only trump card Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has and that without him there would have been a "total disaster".

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused the European Union of inaction, saying that the only thing the EU does perfectly is hate Russians.

The newly appointed Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka has arrived in Ukraine on Friday 9 January, although his train to Kyiv was delayed due to the Russian attack on the night of 8-9 January.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that a clear response from the world is needed, particularly from the United States, after Russia's large-scale attack on the night of 8-9 January during which Russia used a medium-range ballistic missile known as Oreshnik.

US President Donald Trump has said he is ready to assume commitments regarding US participation in future security guarantees for Ukraine because he believes that Russia will not attempt another invasion.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that the Coalition of the Willing declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine is far removed from a peaceful settlement, and that Russia will view Western troops deployed in Ukraine as "legitimate military targets".

The French newspaper Le Monde has reported that Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin representative in talks with Washington regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, was in Paris on 7 January.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has not specified how many British troops might be sent to Ukraine to support peacekeeping operations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is on a visit to Cyprus, has had a meeting with Moldova's President Maia Sandu to discuss the two countries' path towards the European Union.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived on Tuesday in Paris, where a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing will take place.

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen believes that a possible forcible seizure of Greenland by the US would bring the North Atlantic Alliance to an end.

The real world is governed by power, and the United States is a superpower, so it will act like one, said Stephen Miller, one of US President Donald Trump's aides and White House Deputy Chief of Staff, commenting on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Czech chargé d'affaires for talks over what it described as unacceptable statements made by Czech parliamentary speaker Tomio Okamura.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Serhii Kyslytsia as first deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, led by Kyrylo Budanov, on 5 January.

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán has urged people to vote for his party in the 2026 elections so that the country does not get drawn into a war.

Russian authorities have claimed that they have handed over alleged "evidence" to the US purporting to show that Ukrainian forces attempted to strike the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's residence in Russia's Novgorod Oblast with drones.

The Russian government has formally sent a diplomatic request to the US demanding that it stop pursuing an oil tanker bound for Venezuela.

A poll by The Economist/YouGov has found that 49% of respondents in the United States "somewhat" or "strongly" disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling Russia's war against Ukraine, while 30% support his approach.

The head of the EU Delegation to Kyiv, Katarína Mathernová, has welcomed the approval of four independent members of the new supervisory board of Energoatom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy company, and said the EU expects the formation of the board to be completed in January.