The tanker Marinera, formerly known as Bella 1 and detained by the US Coast Guard on 7 January, is said to have ties to fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor and a former Ukrainian politician from Odesa.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey, who is on a visit to Kyiv, and his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal have signed a roadmap to implement the 100-year defence partnership agreement previously signed by the two countries.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that Europe needs to restore direct communication with the Kremlin in order to have leverage in negotiations on ending the Russo–Ukrainian war.

US President Donald Trump has again claimed that only his actions have pushed other NATO allies to spend more on defence and that, without him, Russia would have seized Ukraine long ago.

Jonas Gahr Støre has said that Norway could contribute to an allied deterrence contingent in Ukraine as part of security guarantees, with Norwegian instructors also potentially helping train Ukrainian troops inside Ukraine.

Leaders of key European countries, together with Denmark, have expressed a joint position on the future of Greenland following renewed claims on the island by US President Donald Trump.

Norway will finance another batch of US weapons for Ukraine, allocating more than €267 million.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has stressed that the EU must decide on a solution for financial support for Ukraine at the summit on 18-19 December.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he asked Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin how Russia would react to a potential EU decision to use frozen Russian assets and that he received a promise that Russia would take Hungary's protest into account on this matter.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that at a morning meeting with his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu in The Hague, they discussed the ongoing negotiations on a potential peace agreement, Ukraine's accession to the EU and bilateral issues.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that if Moscow refuses to agree to the terms for ending hostilities worked out following talks with the United States and Europe, it will be time for Donald Trump to apply serious pressure on Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects five documents to result from talks with the United States on a potential agreement to end the Russo-Ukrainian war, some of which will be legally binding, including on security guarantees.

The European Union has expanded the scope of its sanctions regime against Belarus to cover hybrid unfriendly actions by Belarus against its European neighbours.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported that he spoke on Wednesday 10 December with Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

The Élysée Palace has revealed that Trump's "peace plan" and security guarantees for Ukraine were the focus of discussions between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London.

A joint meeting of the leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine in London has ended, with the UK prime minister and the Ukrainian president continuing bilateral talks.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported that since the launch of NATO's PURL initiative, which funds the procurement of American weapons for Ukraine, 21 countries have joined, contributing a total of more than US$4 billion.

Russian diplomat Kirill Dmitriev, who represents the Kremlin in its interactions with the United States regarding the "peace plan", has mocked remarks attributed to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a leaked conversation between European leaders.

Finland's Foreign Minister and current Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Elina Valtonen has said that the way and the conditions on which Russia's war against Ukraine ends will affect peace and stability across the entire OSCE area and beyond.