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.

The Russian Federal Security Service has announced the revocation of accreditation for Wilkes Pryor, the second secretary of the political section at the UK Embassy in Moscow.

Europe must be tough on US President-elect Donald Trump if it wants to prove something to him and persuade him to help Ukraine, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.

Russia's ground forces are now larger than they were at the time of beginning of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but their quality has declined since then.

The cessation of the blockade of checkpoints on the border with Ukraine by Polish farmers is temporary, the protests may resume in December and will be much bigger.

The UK government has announced the introduction of what it described as the largest sanctions package, targeting 30 ships from Russia's shadow fleet.

Discussions on deploying Western troops and private defence contractors to Ukraine have resumed in Europe after Donald Trump's victory in the US elections. 

The German federal government has announced the delivery of another batch of military assistance to Ukraine, which included ammunition for Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 47 anti-mine vehicles with ambush protection (MRAPs), one TRML-4D radar for an IRIS-T anti-air defence system, and four Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled guns with spare parts.

The Times has reported that Ukraine has only about 50 American ATACMS tactical missiles.