US Senator Jim Risch believes it is necessary to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with US-delivered weapons when it is necessary for its defence.

A draft law from the Russian Defence Ministry regarding unilateral changes to borders with neighbouring countries in the Baltic Sea has disappeared from the Russian government's website.

Marko Mihkelson, Chairman of the Estonian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, has said it was time for NATO to "wake up" and prove its ability to respond adequately to threats, particularly after Moscow's hints at plans to redraw the border in the Baltic Sea.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag, believes that Germany could do more to support Ukraine and hopes that Chancellor Olaf Scholz will eventually change his mind about the possibility of providing Ukraine with Taurus long-range missiles.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of the German Bundestag's defence committee, has called on France to step up its assistance to Ukraine with weapons, noting that its contribution contrasts with statements coming from Paris.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine does not want to invite Russia to the Peace Summit that will be held in Switzerland in June so as to avoid it undermining the peace process.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Ukraine has every chance to start membership negotiations with the EU in early summer because it has done a lot of work and is making progress in bringing its positions closer to "complicated partners".  

German law enforcement officers are conducting searches at the home of Petr Bystron, a politician from the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD or Alternative for Germany), on Thursday, 16 May. Bystron is the party's number two in the European elections.

The hospital where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was operated on after surviving the assassination attempt reported that his condition has been stabilised but is still very serious.

Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, has announced that the United States will provide an additional US$2 billion in contributions to a newly created fund to develop Ukraine's defence industry and finance weapons purchases. 

France and the Netherlands are reportedly promoting in the EU the idea of imposing sanctions on all financial institutions that help Russia conduct monetary transactions to pay for goods, components, or technologies used in the defence industry.

EU ambassadors have agreed to ban access to four information resources used as tools of Russian propaganda in all EU countries.

NATO defence ministers will meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels on 13-14 June, with a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on the first day.

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that discussions about his country's provision of a Patriot system for Ukraine do not mean it is impossible, and he noted that he was satisfied with the Kremlin's reaction to such plans.

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said that London will never pressure Ukraine to negotiate a peace deal with Russia, as the decision to do so is Ukraine's alone.