Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK, has promised that his country will "double down" its support for Ukraine.

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, Chairman of the Management Board of Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian national power company, and Lorenz Gessner, Head of the KfW Representative Office in Ukraine, have signed an agreement worth €100 million.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he would continue his "peace mission" despite criticism from the European Union.

General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has stated that Ukraine has a "great strategy" for waging war against Russia, although the course of hostilities is becoming increasingly challenging to predict.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he was ready to cooperate with anyone who would be in power in the United States but added that working with Donald Trump would be "hard work".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has responded to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for Western allies to down Russian missiles and drones over Ukraine, stating that this is out of the question.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced plans to intensify efforts against Russia's oil "shadow fleet."

Russia has not ruled out the deployment of missiles, including nuclear weapons, in response to the US deployment of long-range weaponry in Germany.

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has stated that the integration of Ukraine, Moldova, and the Western Balkans into the EU will be a priority during her second term.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 18 July.

Lithuania is urging the European Union to abandon Russian liquefied natural gas as soon as possible after May saw Europe import more natural gas from Russia than from the United States for the first time in two years.

The Tallinn Children's Hospital Foundation has collected a €60,000 targeted donation from Estonian residents to rebuild the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, which was destroyed by a Russian strike.

Estonia has followed Latvia and Lithuania in banning cars bearing Belarusian number plates from entering the country.

Cars with Belarusian registration plates will not be able to enter Lithuania starting from midnight on Thursday, 18 July.

An operation called "Safe Podlasie" (Bezpieczne Podlasie) will commence at the border with Belarus in Poland on 1 August, involving approximately 17,000 military personnel (Podlasie, Poland's eastern region, shares a border with Belarus – ed.).