During Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Norway helped transport about 3,000 patients and their families to hospitals in Europe as part of a European evacuation project for Ukrainian patients.

The EU is preparing sanctions against several Russians involved in cyberattacks against Estonia and will soon announce a support package for Moldova in the context of the energy crisis caused by the cessation of Russian gas supplies to the breakaway Transnistria region.

Hungary has not approved a joint statement by the EU countries on the non-recognition of the so-called presidential election in Belarus, which Alexander Lukashenko won for the seventh time.

EU ambassadors will try to prepare a statement on energy security on Monday, 27 January, in exchange for which Hungary may finally agree to extend the sanctions against Russia, which it is currently blocking.

The European Commission has submitted a screening report on the Fundamentals cluster to the European Council, marking the starting point for Ukraine's EU membership negotiations.

More than half of Ukrainians believe that a potential deal to end the war with Russia will be doomed to fail if it does not include the full restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Ukrainians are mostly positive about Donald Trump's comeback as US president.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes to have the support of Ukraine's European allies in explaining to US President Donald Trump the risks of agreeing to the demands that Moscow is expected to make in potential talks to end the war.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that if the current phase of the war ends without reliable security guarantees for Ukraine, a future Russian attack will be much more dangerous and will threaten all countries that were once part of the Soviet "sphere of influence".

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that European states should not try to cut costs on their security and indirectly supported the call of new US President Donald Trump to increase NATO allies' defence spending to 5% of GDP.

European Union ambassadors are expected to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, and Hungary will not block this decision.

President of Moldova Maia Sandu has said that Moldova is ready to provide the breakaway Transnistria region with urgent assistance to overcome the energy crisis, and later, financial support may be discussed – but only after the withdrawal of Russian troops.

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has stated that the country’s air forces had tracked the course of the drone that eventually crashed on the Romanian bank of the Danube River and has emphasised that it posed no threat to Romanian citizens.

A delegation of Slovak opposition politicians has arrived in Kyiv to support friendly relations with Ukraine amidst the ongoing tensions between Kyiv and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.