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.).

US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he isnʼt a supporter of sanctions when asked whether he had considered easing sanctions against Russia as part of the ‘deal’ to end the war in Ukraine that he wants to adopt. 

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will allocate €10 million for the rebuilding of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital damaged by a Russian missile on 8 July.

The US Department of State has commented on the position of Donald Trump's vice-presidential nominee, J.D. Vance, on Ukraine.

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Ukraine has warned Belarus about the repercussions of signing agreements with the Russian "authorities" in Crimea, emphasising that this would be a symbol of recognition of Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula.

After his "peacekeeping mission", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed to European Council President Charles Michel that diplomatic relations with Russia be restored.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, after his trips to Ukraine, Russia and China, briefed EU leaders on the results of his "peacekeeping mission" and Budapest's "peace" proposals.

EU foreign ministers may penalise Hungary for its uncoordinated foreign policy activities by ignoring a foreign ministers summit in Hungary and instead organising their own meeting on the same dates.

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, believes that Germany should supply Ukraine with combat aircraft.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that he asked Vladimir Putin three questions regarding Russia's aggression against Ukraine during a meeting with the Russian leader.

Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, has described Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Moscow as an insult to the Ukrainian people.