European foreign ministers meeting in Lviv on 9 May have issued a joint statement welcoming the completion of technical work on draft legal instruments required to establish a Special Tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine within the Council of Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reported that he spoke last night with US President Donald Trump about a ceasefire in Ukraine.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has threatened Russia with new sanctions if it does not agree to a lasting ceasefire in Ukraine and peace talks.

A museum in the Estonian city of Narva has placed a large banner on the border with Russia equating Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin with Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler.

European foreign ministers and Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, paid tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers during their visit to Lviv on 9 May.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Moscow on the evening of 8 May.

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) has voted to ratify the agreement on establishing a joint investment fund between Ukraine and the United States.

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Russia to return the children who were forcibly taken and deported from Ukraine.

At a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Tomáš Kopečný, Czech Governmental Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, wore socks showing the Kremlin in flames, prompting sharp criticism from Russia.

The Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) on 8 May voted in favour of a resolution stating that it did not recognise the territories of Ukraine seized by Russia as Russian either de jure or de facto.

The Ukrainian President's Office has reported that its head, Andrii Yermak, held online ceasefire talks with officials from the United States and a number of European nations on 7 May.

The Financial Times has reported that European capitals will not support any US move to recognise Crimea as Russian or pressure Kyiv to accept such a deal.

The exhumation of the bodies of Polish citizens who were killed in 1945 began in Ukraine’s Ternopil Oblast on 24 April, at the site of the disappeared village of Puzhnyky. [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II. It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west. Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.]

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called for pressure to be put on Russia to achieve peace after Moscow launched a large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine on the night of 23-24 April.

Controversy has emerged within the Donald Trump administration over a potential lifting of energy sanctions against Russia, despite public denials of such discussions from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.