Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has met with European Council President António Costa at a border crossing on the Slovak-Ukrainian border.

If a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is ever signed, the United States could assume a leading role in monitoring a large buffer zone in Ukraine, designed to shield the country from renewed Russian aggression.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that 35 leaders of the Coalition of the Willing are ready to make a political commitment to provide Ukraine with security guarantees.

Participants of the Coalition of the Willing meeting, held in Paris in a hybrid format, discussed each country’s readiness to contribute to ensuring Ukraine’s security on land, at sea, in the air and in cyberspace.

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has condemned what he called the "sick-making" spectacle of US President Donald Trump welcoming Russian ruler Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he will have a conversation with US President Donald Trump "today or in the coming days".

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed Geneva as the venue for talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine.

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has suggested restricting reverse gas and electricity supplies to Ukraine from Europe in order to force Kyiv to stop striking energy infrastructure linked to the West.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has strongly criticised remarks made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding military security guarantees for Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided to write a letter to US President Donald Trump regarding Ukraine’s attack on the Druzhba pipeline, through which Russia supplies oil to Hungary and Slovakia.

The foreign ministers of Slovakia and Hungary have issued a complaint to the European Commission in connection with attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline which have halted supplies of Russian oil to both countries. They are complaining that the pipeline’s infrastructure has now been disrupted for the third time in nine days.

Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian national suspected of involvement in the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion.

A total of 53% of Ukrainians predict that in 10 years, Ukraine will become a prosperous member of the European Union.

Polish prosecutors’ early reports indicate that the drone which crashed overnight into a cornfield in Lublin Voivodeship was a military UAV.

Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger has arrived in Odesa.