President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged partners to speed up the provision of weapons to Ukraine in a video address to the participants of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, which has begun at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Finland has announced the 12th military aid package for Ukraine, which is several times larger than all previous ones.

Many European countries are ready to hand over tanks to Ukraine but waiting for the permission of the country which produced and sold them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's war is doomed to failure, and the EU is determined to help Ukraine on the battlefield.

The lower house of the Dutch parliament has supported the provision of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine.

Ukraine has managed to unblock almost all types of weapons by its partners, except fighter jets and long-range missiles.

Some Western countries were skeptical about Ukraine's chances of resistance before the full-scale invasion, but they changed their mind.

Members of the European Parliament have called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany to hand over the immediate deployment of modern weapons and an air defence system to Ukraine.

Latvia will transfer Stinger MANPADS, helicopters, machine guns with ammunition and UAVs to Ukraine.

Moldova's President Maia Sandu has called to help Ukraine win the war against Russia on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, is in favour of providing Ukraine with tanks, including other necessary types of weapons.

Residents of the EU countries are divided in their vision of the end of Russia's war against Ukraine: Austrians and Germans favour a quick end to the war, even at the cost of territorial loss for Ukraine. The Dutch, Portuguese and Polish heavily opposed this idea.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again offered his mediation between Ukraine and Russia to end the war.

The International Atomic Energy Agency expands its presence in Ukraine to help prevent a nuclear accident during the ongoing war.

This week, Ukraine will receive the first part of the macro-financial assistance package from the EU totaling €18 billion.

Andrii Melnyk, the Deputy Foreign Minister and former ambassador of Ukraine to Germany, has appealed to the German government with a proposal to transfer 93 Tornado fighter jets to Ukraine, which are still to be replaced by the F-35.

An expanded training programme for the Ukrainian military by American instructors has begun in Germany. 

Finland could donate some German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine if a wider group of European nations also decided to do so.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) faction in the German Bundestag is insisting that Ukraine be supplied with Leopard 2 main battle tanks.

Chief Ombudsman of Türkiye Şeref Malkoç on Thursday announced the telephone conversation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with Ukrainian and Russian Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin.

Brussels has accelerated work on the tenth package of sanctions against Russia, with EU member state leaders wanting to adopt a new package before the EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv, scheduled for early February.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Ukraine without public announcements and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lviv on Wednesday.

Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, has stated that the battles for Soledar and Bakhmut show how important it is to strengthen military support for Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Krišjānis Kariņš, the Latvian Prime Minister, has announced the possible transfer of another batch of Stinger MANPADS to Ukraine.

Annalena Baerbock, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, arrived in Kharkiv on Tuesday, 10 January, with an unannounced visit.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, believes that the partners should hand over Western-style battle tanks to Ukraine if it requests them.