The Lithuanian Ministry of Transport has reported that the drone which temporarily prevented a plane carrying President Gitanas Nausėda from landing at Vilnius Airport was flown for advertising purposes.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has arrived in Kyiv on an official visit.

A Spartan aircraft carrying Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda was unable to land at Vilnius airport for some time due to reports of an unidentified drone in the airspace.

Bulgaria will not investigate a GPS signal disruption incident that affected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane.

Poland has scrambled its aircraft and put ground-based air defence systems on full alert in response to a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of 2-3 September.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, at a meeting with Kremlin head Vladimir Putin, has complained that Serbia was "in a difficult situation" because of the war Russia has unleashed against Ukraine.

Lithuania intends to join Finland’s initiative to develop a shelter network in Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in China and a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said that the parties are "not yet ready" for a meeting at the leaders’ level.

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land at the airport of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, using paper maps because of GPS failures.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join European leaders who are gathering in Paris on Thursday 4 September to discuss possible security guarantees for Ukraine.

The leaders of the two coalition factions in the Bundestag, Jens Spahn from the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Matthias Miersch from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), arrived in Kyiv on 1 September.

Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has warned against becoming accustomed to Russia’s war against Ukraine, stressing that such complacency could amount to Moscow’s greatest victory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on media reports suggesting that, as part of a future peace agreement, European leaders are considering the creation of a 40-kilometre buffer zone between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned about the risks that Russia poses to Europe, stressing the importance of securing the EU’s eastern borders.

This week, a two-year project has been launched in Estonia under which Estonian police officers will train their Ukrainian counterparts.