The EU has started discussing punishing Hungary and the government of Viktor Orbán for their international activity and fake "mediation" to end the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine may not be fully satisfied with the outcomes of the NATO Summit that has begun in the US capital.

Russia has neither enough ammunition nor troops to launch a large-scale offensive in Ukraine, a senior NATO official has said.

Ukroboronprom, a Ukrainian state-owned defence industry company, has opened its first foreign representative office in Washington, D.C. 

The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) expanded its lists of sanctions against Russia on 8 July. 

Spiegel has learned that German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has asked Finance Minister Christian Lindner to allocate an additional €4 billion for military support to Ukraine this year.

The US Department of State has suggested that the NATO summit in Washington could discuss the potential shooting down of Russian missiles flying towards Poland in Ukrainian skies.

New Dutch PM Dick Schoof has said that Russia should not win the war after the Russian attack on the Okhmatdyt National Specialised Children's Hospital in Kyiv.

The Hungarian opposition party Tisza and its leader Péter Magyar have condemned the Russian missile attack on Ukraine on 8 July, while the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government have not responded.

The first EU-Ukraine bilateral meeting to assess the adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to EU law began in Brussels on Monday, 8 July, the next important step on the path to EU membership.

After the large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine on 8 July, the Russian Embassy in Prague has been doused with a red liquid imitating blood.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday evening, 8 July.

Ukraine’s path to NATO is described as "irreversible" in the draft communiqué of the NATO summit in Washington.

The Ukraine-Poland security agreement includes a provision to develop a mechanism to shoot down Russian missiles and drones launched in the direction of Poland within Ukrainian airspace.

On 8 July, Ukraine and Poland signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement.