US First Lady Melania Trump has said that seven abducted Ukrainian children have been brought back to their families thanks to "bridge-building" by Ukraine and Russia.

Germany's Air Force is redeploying additional fighter jets and 150 service personnel to Poland to protect NATO's eastern flank.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that three issues are causing the most debate in discussions on the "peace plan" for Ukraine.

On Monday 1 December, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Rustem Umierov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council and the head of the Ukrainian delegation.

The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, approved the federal budget for 2026 on 28 November.

Russia is taking steps to Russify people living in the territory it has illegally occupied since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine's Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that the next meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein format) will take place on 3 December.

Ukraine's ambassador to Hungary, Fedir Shandor, says Hungarians continue to support Kyiv despite the propaganda being spread by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to meet with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Friday in an effort to unblock talks on using frozen Russian assets to finance a major loan for Ukraine.

Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and former head of Odesa Oblast Administration, has asked President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to grant him the status of a "civilian prisoner" in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Websites of the Danish government and defence companies have been unavailable following a large-scale cyberattack on Thursday 13 November, likely launched from Russia.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest, although as yet he is unable to say when.

Tomio Okamura, the new head of the lower house of the Czech parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, has ordered the removal of the Ukrainian flag from the parliament building.

On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he had spoken on the phone with Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Jelyazkov.

The European Union has called on Russia to refrain from actions that could lower the threshold for nuclear confrontation, following Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin's order to explore the possibility of resuming nuclear weapons testing.

The German government plans to increase financial assistance to Ukraine by approximately €3 billion in 2026 and is preparing to approve the corresponding amendments to the draft budget.

Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has said that Italy is working on another aid package for Ukraine – the 12th since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of NATO's Military Committee, has said NATO will continue to support Ukraine until the parties are ready to sit down for peace negotiations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has suggested that Moscow can provide "security guarantees" to European Union and NATO countries.

Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, has stated that Russia maintains "general readiness" to hold a summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump, which has been postponed indefinitely.