French President Emmanuel Macron has conceded that he may have a telephone conversation with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

The Bloomberg news agency, citing sources, has reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is going to present his peace plan concerning Russia's war against Ukraine at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has commented on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's phone call to Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, emphasising that the decision on such communications rests with Scholz.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has welcomed US President Joe Biden's decision, which, according to unofficial reports, allowed Ukraine to use long-range missiles on the territory of Russia's Kursk Oblast.

The White House's decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with US long-range missiles applies exclusively to Kursk Oblast of Russia and is intended as a reaction to the involvement of North Korean troops in the war, Axios writes.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after his first conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in two years, has reached out to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The first in two years conversation between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian leader Vladimir Putin took place on the initiative of the former and in close coordination with other G7 countries and lasted about an hour.

Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has said during his visit to Oslo that Norway would finance the production of Ukrainian weapons and equipment and discussed a new form of cooperation.

The French military task force Champagne is completing its mission to train a new brigade named after Anna of Kyiv and consisting of several thousand Ukrainian soldiers [Anna of Kyiv was a princess of Kyivan Rus who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I – ed.].

A Ukrainian sailor who attempted to sink a €7 million yacht in Mallorca owned by Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev continues to serve in the Logistics Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Lithuania is studying Ukraine's experience in organising mobilisation, recruitment and training of military personnel in wartime.

Europe has issued a final appeal to the Biden administration to strengthen US support for Ukraine in order to bolster Kyiv's position ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

The Office of the Polish President (OP) has released an infographic showing that the country has allocated 4.91% of its GDP to help Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has expressed confidence that US President-elect Donald Trump understands the importance of US membership in NATO.

Michael Waltz, a likely national security advisor in the future administration of newly elected US President, believes that Donald Trump aims to bring Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has expressed confidence that US President-elect Donald Trump will not allow Russia to destroy Ukraine, as he respects the money of American taxpayers.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday (13 November), has said he is "cautiously optimistic" after discussing the possibility of long-range strikes against Russia.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that he touched upon the possibility of supplying Soviet MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The administration of US President Joe Biden, which is in effect until the inauguration of the new president, intends to send a request to Congress for new aid to Ukraine for the 2025 fiscal year.

Josep Borrell, European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has stated that in light of Donald Trump’s election as the new US president, the EU must "take its destiny into its own hands".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has once again confirmed his unwillingness to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles.

Admiral Rob Bauer, the head of the NATO Military Committee, has noted that the scenario of stopping the Russo-Ukrainian war in which the Kremlin would feel like a winner will definitely not be in the interests of the United States.

Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, believes that if Western leaders were not restrained in their decisions due to the risk of Russia's use of nuclear weapons, they would have deployed their troops to help Ukraine in the war. 

President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs, Speaker of the Saeima Daiga Mieriņa, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže are calling on Latvians, in solidarity with Ukraine, to honour the fallen with a moment of silence and to light candles on 19 November.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured NATO on Wednesday, 13 November, that the administration of current President Joe Biden will strengthen support for Ukraine in the coming months and will aim to reinforce the alliance during this time.

The US Department of State has said that Russia's success on the battlefield using the North Korean military will depend on the level of their integration into the Russian army.

Ukrainian activists have turned on the sound of an air-raid warning and chanted "Stop Russia" during a speech by Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian politician Alexei Navalny, at the Web Summit 2024 conference in Lisbon.

The European Parliament will hold an emergency meeting next Tuesday, 19 November, to mark 1,000 days since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Vice Admiral Oleksii Neizhpapa, Commander of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has met with his Danish counterpart Henrik Ryberg in Odesa.

French President Emmanuel Macron, following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Paris, emphasised that continuing support for Ukraine remains a priority and that no decisions regarding Ukraine should be made without Ukraine’s involvement.