Finland will provide Ukraine with the 26th batch of defence aid with winter defence materiel. The Finnish president made the decision on 5 December based on a proposal from the government.

Dmytro Kuleba, the former minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine, has become a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School in Harvard.

Russia decided to close the Consulate General of Poland in St. Petersburg in response to the closure of its consulate in Poznań.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for encouraging unemployed Ukrainian refugees in Germany to find jobs or return to Ukraine.

An incident has occurred in the Baltic Sea involving a Russian vessel and a German military helicopter.

The Norwegian government has agreed to send F-35 fighter jets and NASAMS air defence systems to Poland to protect Rzeszów, a crucial Ukrainian assistance hub.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to a question about the concessions Russia would need to make during potential negotiations, said Russia should "sod off".

Russia is conducting a "staggeringly reckless campaign" of sabotage in Europe, as well as increasing nuclear sabre-rattling to deter other countries from helping Ukraine.

The Finnish group of defense and security technologies Summa Defense Ltd is creating a drone production plant in Finland in cooperation with Ukrainian partners.

The capital of Lithuania has extended free public transport for Ukrainians fleeing the war for another year.

The Lithuanian government has allocated €5 million to install solar power plants in Ukraine after Vilnius approved a programme to support the country's energy sector.

Karol Nawrocki, the head of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), says his institution can start exhumation work in Volyn within 24 hours. [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.]

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is set to become the first Slovak representative to visit Russia on an official trip since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.

The Norwegian government, after consultations with the opposition, proposes to increase aid to Ukraine in 2025 to NOK 30 billion (about US$2.7 billion) in comparison to this year’s NOK 27 billion (about US$2.4 billion).

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs is providing an additional €65 million for the repair of Ukraine's energy infrastructure.