Major General Christian Freuding, Head of the Planning Staff and the Special Task Force for Ukraine at Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence, has stated that Germany sees signs that the Russian army is aiming to achieve capabilities by 2029 to conduct new aggression, including against NATO member states.

The defence ministers of five major European countries have called for continued support for Ukraine amidst concerns about the potential influence of US President-elect Donald Trump.

Bloomberg, citing its sources, reports that the UK government has recently delivered dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine without public announcement, even before the decision to allow Ukraine to use Western missiles to hit targets in Russia.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in his country. They talked on how to put an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Austrian oil and gas company OMV has confiscated Russian gas as payment for an arbitration decision, according to which Gazprom was to reimburse €230 million.

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, who is stepping down from his position, has stated that Europe still needs to make greater efforts to support Ukraine in its war against Russia and to strengthen its own defence capabilities.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested that if Ukraine had started its movement towards NATO in 2008, Russia would have launched a war against it earlier.

Ukraine is working with its US partners to obtain a THAAD anti-ballistic missile defence system or upgrade the Patriot in the wake of Russia's attack with a new experimental missile type.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that she is being made a "scapegoat" for the war in Ukraine due to her position at the NATO summit in 2008, when she blocked Kyiv's path to a Membership Action Plan.

The Biden administration’s decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine for the first time was prompted by a shift in Russian tactics on the battlefield.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the shift to remote work by the US Embassy and some other foreign diplomatic missions in Ukraine as "information overreaction".

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a phone conversation with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after the statements of the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin about the renewal of the nuclear strategy, it's time for Germany to support the decision of its partners to allow Ukraine launch long-range strikes on Russia.

EU High Representative Josep Borrell has suggested allocating a significant portion of the upcoming second tranche of revenues from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine’s defence industry.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has stated that Ukraine's use of ATACMS long-range missiles to strike Russian territory would be considered direct US involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war.