US Senator Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Democratic Party, has said that US President Donald Trump should replace his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Multiple officials have told CNN that current US and European assessments show no new major developments on the battlefield or signs of Russia holding the upper hand, despite previous remarks by US President Donald Trump.

EU countries are intending to galvanise the adoption of legislation enabling the indefinite freezing of €210 billion in Russian assets in order to prevent a veto from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the upcoming EU summit.

The administration of US President Donald Trump insists that it is not pressuring Kyiv to accept any settlement of Russia's aggression against Ukraine that the Ukrainian side considers unacceptable.

US President Donald Trump has said that there has always been an understanding that Ukraine would "not be going into NATO".

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Russia is in a stronger negotiating position on ending the war in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump has again complained that Ukraine had supposedly not read a potential "peace agreement" and said that despite his respect for the Ukrainian people and military, Russia is much bigger and that "size" will win.

US President Donald Trump believes that Ukraine should hold a presidential election, as a long time has passed since the previous vote.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is visiting Rome on Tuesday 9 December, discussed Russia's war, prisoners of war and the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia during his meeting with Pope Leo XIV.

Marcin Przydacz, Head of the International Policy Bureau of the Polish President's Chancellery, has said he is glad to see how important Polish-Ukrainian relations remain for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the president said he was ready to visit Warsaw.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been scheduled to travel from Brussels to Rome on 9 December.

The outgoing government of the Netherlands has allocated an additional EUR 700 million to support Ukraine next year.

Oleksandr Merezhko, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee, has refuted US President Donald Trump's claim that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy had not read the "peace plan" proposed by the US side.