The European Commission has clarified that current EU sanctions against Russia's leadership do not include a direct ban on entry for Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin or Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The European Commission is considering the idea of using not only €140 billion of frozen Russian assets held in a financial repository in Belgium.

Ukraine is identified as a key element of the European Union's defence preparedness in the bloc's new defence roadmap.

A Russian FPV drone has attacked a UN humanitarian convoy near the village of Bilozerka in Kherson Oblast, and an Italian official who was accompanying the mission was also there at the time of the strike.

The European Commission and European capitals have condemned Russia's new strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, which have brought about the first large-scale power outage in Kyiv in a long time.

The Czech Armed Forces have reported that Czechia has also experienced sightings of unidentified drones near strategic sites, including military facilities.

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) has approved a presidential decree authorising the deployment of several Ukrainian Navy vessels to the United Kingdom and Türkiye.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that a Ukrainian negotiation team, led by Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and Andrii Yermak, Head of the President's Office, will visit the United States next week.

Hungary has likely maintained spies in Brussels for years and even attempted to recruit staff from EU institutions, according to a joint investigation by German newspaper Der Spiegel, Belgian newspaper De Tijd and the Hungarian outlet Direkt36.

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, has said the appearance of unidentified drones over airports and strategic sites in Europe is a "way to scare Europeans with war", but did not directly acknowledge Russia's involvement.

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has arrived in Ukraine and is currently in Kyiv.

Lithuania's new Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė has arrived in Kyiv on a visit, and this is her first foreign trip in office and her first visit to Ukraine in this role.

A compromise on the EU's 19th sanctions package may involve the partial lifting of sanctions on assets linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska – because Austria wants compensation for its Raiffeisen bank, which had to pay a large fine in Russia.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has confirmed that French authorities detained two crew members of the tanker Boracay, which is considered part of Russia's shadow fleet.