President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly commented on a proposal from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during his visit to Ukraine, which called for an immediate truce between Ukraine and Russia.

General Wiesław Kukuła, the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Poland, arrived in the city of Kyiv on 4 July.

Dozens of foreign policy experts have urged NATO members not to advance Ukraine's membership issue at the Washington summit, arguing that, in their view, it would jeopardise the United States and its allies and could fracture the coalition.

The State Duma and the Federation Council of Russia have adopted a joint statement on the termination of participation of the Russian delegation in the operation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA).

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated that Berlin will not support a ceasefire that would entail Ukraine's surrender.

Poland has settled the situation on the Polish-Ukrainian border so that Ukrainian vehicles will be able to cross it again.

A delegation of American legislators led by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner, has arrived in Kyiv.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has stated that the prospects for relations between Moscow and Brussels are poor following the approval of Kaja Kallas as the head of European diplomacy at the EU summit.

Czechiaʼs Prime Minister Petr Fiala has said that the signing of a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine will take place on 18 July at the European Political Community summit in London.

Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk has stated that the security agreement with Ukraine is practically complete and will be signed with a "99%" probability before the NATO summit in Washington in July.

Major General Jan Dam, Chief of the Royal Danish Air Force, has said that he expects the schedule for the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to be met.

Major General Jan Dam, Commander of the Danish Air Force, has announced that Denmark has undertaken to train up to one hundred Ukrainian specialists to service F-16 fighter jets, with 50 of them already trained and participating in the preparation of the first aircraft in Ukraine.

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, has stated the EU must allocate more funds for such countries as Germany which accept a large number of Ukrainian refugees.

The new president of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, has said that his country is participating in the Czech initiative to purchase shells for Ukraine. In particular, the ammunition purchased is being upgraded at Slovak factories.

The EU has condemned the Russian authorities' decision to block access to more than 80 European media outlets in Russia as absolutely unreasonable.