Belgium, which has expressed concern about the use of frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine, wants to achieve a change in the conclusions of the EU summit in this regard.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will not personally attend the G20 summit in South Africa, which is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell has responded with a vulgar joke to a question from a HuffPost journalist about the colours of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's tie, which resembled the Russian flag.

US President Donald Trump plans to hold a phone conversation with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin on Thursday 16 October.

The Ukraine-EU Association Committee in Trade Configuration has approved a decision to lift some tariffs and expand export quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union.

US President Donald Trump may receive his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has mocked Russia over the malfunction of its submarine Novorossiysk, which surfaced near the coast of France a few days ago.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has condemned the latest Russian attack on Ukraine during his visit to Lviv on Friday 10 October.

Russian senior officials have made contradictory statements within a day on whether the "momentum" for resolving Russia's war against Ukraine after the Alaska summit has been exhausted.

Czech opposition leader Andrej Babiš has said his party will not fund weapons for Ukraine from the state budget should it form the next government.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said it is not in Poland's interest to extradite Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Z., who was detained at Germany's request over the Nord Stream sabotage case.

Slovak Defence Minister Robert Kaliňák said on Tuesday 7 October that Bratislava continues to oppose sending weapons to Ukraine and called the latest support package a "humanitarian issue".

A delegation of members of the Slovak parliament's European Affairs Committee has visited Ukraine for the first time and met with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities.

The Hungarian Parliament has called an extraordinary session to extend the state of emergency for another 180 days.

The G7 countries are close to agreeing on a significant strengthening of sanctions against Russia due to its unwillingness to end its war against Ukraine.