The European Commission has urged Western allies to speed up the disbursement of a US$50 billion loan for Ukraine. This comes amid Belgium's ongoing blockade of the EU's proposed financing plan based on frozen Russian assets.

Moldova's parliament has approved legislation in its second reading that paves the way for shutting down Russia's cultural centre in Chișinău.

The Wall Street Journal has revealed details of a secret plan developed by Germany in the event of war with Russia.

A Russian national suspected of hacking the databases of online shops was detained by Polish officers from the Kraków branch of the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime on 16 November.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has stated that if Russia is enabled even minimally to redraw Ukraine's borders during peace talks, Moscow will sooner or later attempt to do the same with Lithuanian territory.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has said that his country's assistance to Ukraine this year will amount to about one billion euros.

US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the latter's visit to Türkiye on 19 November.

The German government has decided to reduce payments to refugees from Ukraine, and the corresponding draft law on social assistance reform will be approved this week, according to Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the document signed with France has given Ukraine scope to purchase military equipment from France's defence industrial and technology base.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that several unresolved issues between the United States and Russia are preventing a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

European Union countries must prepare for the long-term isolation of Russia even after the war in Ukraine ends, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said.

Partner countries' contributions to the PURL (Prioritised Ukraine Requirement List) initiative, which provides for the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine, have already exceeded US$2.8 billion.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use his visit to Washington to try to persuade US President Donald Trump to hold a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili has claimed that Georgia's path towards integration with the European Union has been accompanied by a negative stance from Ukraine aimed at preventing Tbilisi from obtaining candidate status.

Yana Leonova, a 33-year-old Belarusian national, has been extradited from France to the US on charges of plotting to violate the Export Control Reform Act, to commit smuggling, to commit money laundering and to defraud the United States.