On Tuesday 29 September, the Council of the EU's Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA) will make another attempt to approve the screening results for negotiating clusters 2 and 3 for Ukraine, a step necessary for further progress towards opening them.

Defence ministers of EU member states will discuss on 28 September in Brussels the possibility of giving up their place in the "queue" to purchase Patriot interceptor missiles from American manufacturer Lockheed.

EU ministers will approve the allocation of €3 billion under the Ukraine Facility at a meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on 24 September.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU (Coreper) reached a preliminary agreement on 22 September to extend sanctions against Russia for 36 months while removing Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives of EU member states (Coreper) held a meeting in Brussels on the morning of Tuesday 22 September, and was unable to adopt a decision regarding the extension of sanctions for violations of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty (the so-called "sanctions against Putin"), postponing the attempt to vote via written procedure.

EU diplomats in Brussels are considering a compromise that would extend individual sanctions against Russia for 36 months in exchange for the removal of Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list at the insistence of Slovakia and France.

EU diplomats in Brussels are considering a compromise that would extend individual sanctions against Russia for 36 months in exchange for the removal of Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list at the insistence of Slovakia and France.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives of EU member states (Coreper) failed on Monday morning to reach an agreement on extending the EU's individual sanctions.

European Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari has said Ukraine has not yet submitted signed contracts to the European Commission for the purchase of interceptor missiles for Patriot air defence systems.

The EU's Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) has once again failed to reach an agreement on extending the European Union's sanctions against Russia over violations of Ukraine's territorial integrity and has scheduled its next meeting for Monday 21 September.

The European Union will propose creating a European Security Council involving the UK, Canada, Norway, Ukraine and possibly other countries.

In response to Russia's intensifying hybrid attacks on Europe, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans for a new security strategy for European countries to complement NATO's Article 4.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU plans to work with Ukraine on an anti-missile defence system based on the Freyja project and launch a new programme for joint projects with Ukrainian companies.

The EU is aware of the latest developments involving Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and has reiterated that fighting corruption is a central requirement for EU accession.

The Permanent Representatives Committee of EU member states (Coreper) in Brussels held an extraordinary meeting on the morning of Monday 14 September on extending the EU's individual sanctions against Russia over violations of Ukraine's territorial integrity, but failed to reach an outcome – a further meeting will be held later the same day.