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.

Tony Radakin, Chief of the UK Defence Staff, will tell his American counterparts that the UK is ready to send troops to defend Ukraine’s airspace and waters, but not to the line of contact with Russia.

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry has received another €10 million shipment of equipment from the IT Coalition – allies supporting Ukraine in the IT sector – in July and August. The supplies were funded by Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium and Estonia.

Switzerland is "more than ready" to host a summit between Russia and Ukraine, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has described Russia as a "predator, an ogre at our gates" that "needs to keep eating" to stay alive.