The new head of the European Union's diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, believes that Russia has learnt ways to influence elections using new technologies.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Wednesday, 11 December.

Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko believes that Ukraine has "enough funds and weapons to resist at least until the first half of 2025", even if Washington stops providing aid.

The United States has condemned the Russian drone strike on a car belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has discussed the importance of training and equipping a Ukrainian brigade with support from Estonian allies with Estonia's delegation, led by Prime Minister Kristen Michal.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda believes that the European Union needs to have a clearer policy towards Russia, which unleashed the war against Ukraine, especially in terms of sanctions.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he will contact the outgoing President of the United States, Joe Biden, to address the matter of inviting Ukraine to NATO.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Miсhal arrived in Kyiv on the morning of 9 December.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German opposition and candidate to become the German Chancellor of the parliamentary group of CDU/CSU (Union), arrived in Kyiv on a working trip on 9 December.

Municipal workers removed photos of Georgian media employees, who had been injured during protests or deliberately attacked by law enforcement or "thugs", from a Christmas tree that the authorities had begun assembling in Tbilisi on the night of 8-9 December.

Lieutenant Colonel Mattias Puusepp, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Estonian Defence Forces, has stated that neither Ukraine nor Russia managed to make significant breakthroughs at the front during the week while intense combat actions continued along the entire line of contact.

Prime Minister Kristen Michal meets Frankenburg Technologies. Source: Frankenburg TechnologiesEstonian defence company Frankenburg Technologies will start testing its own anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine next year.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has said that Russia violated the key principles of international relations, so the speech of his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting resembled "a testimony from a parallel universe".

A survey by the Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI) shows that the majority of US citizens believe that their country should remain an active player in world politics and continue to help Ukraine.

Representatives of Ukrenergo national energy distribution company and their American partners, led by US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, have discussed the protection of key equipment in Ukraine's power transmission system.