The warhead of the downed Shahed drone, discovered in Moldova's border region following one of Russia's most recent attacks, did not explode; it will be destroyed.

A new military aid package from the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence arrived in Ukraine on Friday, 9 February.

High-ranking lawmakers from Northern European and Baltic countries, who visited Washington on Thursday, 8 February, have expressed concern over what they consider a lack of urgency or a clear strategy from the United States regarding assistance to Ukraine in countering Russian invasion.

EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has said that EU citizens need to be better informed about what it would mean to have a Kremlin-appointed "puppet" government in Ukraine, like in Belarus, if Russia takes over the country.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned the public against a Russian victory in Ukraine and called for maintaining support for Kyiv in a column published in The Wall Street Journal ahead of his visit to the United States.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has criticised US Republican senators amidst the failure of a bill in the US Senate that, among other things, would allocate aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine and Europe can work together to equalise the "artillery balance" with Russia, and the necessary work is underway. 

Members of the European Parliament have called for sanctions to be imposed on infamous former Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a ban on entry to the EU.

Since January 2022, the European Union has provided support to Ukraine for approximately more than €88 billion. 

The State Transport Special Service of Ukraine received a MV-10 mine clearing system from the European Union.

There is no trend indicating a change in Moscow's policy and methods of waging war, said Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's Minister and Coordinator of Special Services, after another large-scale Russian attack against Ukraine.

Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has stated that the military-political reset expected in the near future will not affect Kyiv’s relations with its Western partners.

Moldova’s Defence Ministry had to retract the  fake news that was spread across social media about Moldova's alleged permission to transit F-16 fighters through the country's territory, with the fighters supposedly being transported to Ukraine.

German Major General Christian Freuding, head of the Bundeswehr's Situation Center Ukraine, believes the Ukrainian military can end the war by defeating Russia on the battlefield, but a lack of ammunition remains a major source of concern for the West.

Oleksii Makeiev, Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany, has warned of a fake letter which has been circulating on social media that purports to come from the embassy and seeks to collect data on Ukrainian men of draft age in Germany. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has called on the German TV channel ZDF to explain the trip of its journalist to occupied Mariupol without Ukraine’s approval of this.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have reacted to the deaths of two French volunteers in Kherson Oblast as a result of a Russian attack.

Journalist Armin Coerper from the German public broadcaster ZDF, who heads the channel’s Moscow bureau, has filmed a story that distorts the picture of life in Russian-occupied Mariupol.

In response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's proposal to establish a "demilitarised zone" between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the US Department of State declared that Russia must first demilitarise the occupied parts of Ukraine.

European leaders reacted positively to the finally agreed decision on €50 billion for the multi-year macro-financial EU support to Ukraine, which Hungary had been blocking since December.

The administration of US President Joe Biden is not discussing with Congress the possibility of allocating funding for Ukraine and Israel in a separate bill.

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, told a group of Baltic speakers of parliament on 31 January that the national security proposal combining aid for Ukraine with border policy reforms would likely be split up.

The European Commission will start informal high-level meetings with EU member states on 3 February to discuss the details of the thirteenth package of sanctions against Russia for its attack on Ukraine.

The Committee on Political Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a draft resolution on the confiscation of Russian assets frozen in the West and their allocation to the reconstruction of Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated that the situation regarding the stopping of American aid to Ukraine has had a certain impact on the battlefield.

This Friday, the International Court of Justice will announce its decision on the admissibility of a complaint filed by Ukraine against Russia regarding false accusations that Kyiv had allegedly committed "genocide in Donbas", which the Kremlin used to justify its full-scale invasion. 

The Council of the European Union has extended economic sanctions against Russia for another six months in response to its aggression against Ukraine.

The French Ministry of Defence has responded to the publication of Russian disinformation claiming the supposed death of "French mercenaries" due to a strike on Kharkiv, stating that this was a coordinated misinformation campaign.