Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine, stressing that President Donald Trump hopes for a quick peace deal.

Slovakia has a "moral right" to consider ways to stop gas supplies to Ukraine that go through Slovak territory.

The Washington Post has learnt that new US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not planning to announce new arms supplies for Ukrainian soldiers at the 12 February meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein format.

Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar has arrived in Kyiv to demand explanations from the Ukrainian authorities about the alleged "slanderous campaign" against Hungary.

Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of the German pro-Russian far-left party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, has refused to comment on whether she was pleased that Ukraine "still exists after three years" of full-scale war, rather than capitulating to Russia in the first week.

US Ambassador to Moscow Lynne Tracy visited Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, 11 February.

A German couple who confessed to killing a Ukrainian refugee and her mother last year to abduct a newborn baby has been sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, 10 February.

Ukraine and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed agreements to finance the restoration of energy and critical infrastructure.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has met with Pope Francis to discuss, among other things, the need to establish a just peace in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government insists that Ukraine is committed to become a member of both the EU and NATO amid rumours suggesting that Donald Trump's proposed peace plan includes Ukraine's renunciation of NATO membership in exchange for EU accession by 2030.

Ukraine aims to open all clusters of negotiations with the EU in 2025 and the country's government has set a timeline for the process.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will head the Ukrainian delegation at next week's Munich Security Conference.

Bulgaria will receive about €500 million in compensation from its partners for the military assistance it provided to Ukraine.

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, has said that the approach to ending the war should be pragmatic, which implies certain concessions from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.

The United States will not be leading a session of the US-led Ukraine Defence Contact Group meetings for the first time in history. The United Kingdom has officially confirmed that it will host the 26th meeting of the Ramstein Group on 12 February at NATO's headquarters in Brussels.