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.

Denmark plans to allocate DKK 9.4 billion (€1.26 billion) for military assistance to Ukraine in 2026, compared with DKK 16.5 billion (€2.21 billion) in 2025 and almost DKK 19 billion (€2.54 billion) in 2024.

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.