Jens Stoltenberg, who is about to step down as NATO Secretary General, has urged Alliance members not to be dissuaded from providing further military assistance to Ukraine because of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's "reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric".

US President Joe Biden has stressed that American support for Ukraine will last until Ukraine achieves a "just and durable peace".

The representatives of Russia will not be invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp which will be celebrated on 27 January 2025.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb believes that Western powers, including the United States, should lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of Western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes on Russian territory.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has chaired a meeting of the Hungarian-Russian Economic Cooperation Committee in Budapest.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is sceptical of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's threats, which come amid discussions about allowing Ukraine to launch long-range missiles deep into Russia.

David Pressman, US Ambassador to Hungary, has criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for openly supporting one of the contenders in the US presidential race, Donald Trump.

Donald Trump Jr, US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s son and key campaign adviser, and Robert Kennedy Jr, former presidential candidate who joined the Trump campaign, have said that the US and Russia have to negotiate in order to put an end to the war in Ukraine.

Witold Jurasz, a columnist and journalist at the Polish media outlet Onet, has reported, citing sources, that a Polish delegation was surprised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s communication style during negotiations in Kyiv last week.

Oleh Nikolenko, Ukraine's Consul General in Toronto, has expressed outrage at the decision of the organisers of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to screen the controversial film Russians at War.

Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans believes that the North Atlantic Alliance should shoot down drones and missiles that violate its airspace.

Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has announced that Ukraine will receive another batch of F-16 fighter jets by the end of 2024.

Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Head of the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center, has reported that over the past week Russia has the Ukrainian positions in Donetsk Oblast on the defensive despite having transferred a part of its troops to Kursk Oblast.

Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov had a telephone conversation with Romanian National Defence Minister Angel Tîlvă on Thursday, 12 September and announced the start of training for Ukrainian pilots on F-16s in Romania.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said that Lithuania is likely to soon approve the purchase of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems for Ukraine.