The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday that their countries had no new decisions on restrictions on the use of weapons transferred to Ukraine for further strikes on Russia.

UK Ambassador Martin Harris believes that Russia's tactic of destroying Ukraine's civilian infrastructure will not succeed against the "iron will of the Ukrainian people".

The Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which is predicted to win the September parliamentary elections, has announced in its election programme that it intends to stop payments to the European Peace Fund.

Czech President Petr Pavel has shared his thoughts on when Russia's war against Ukraine would end.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba believes that Ukraine has taken an essential step towards European Union membership by ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) supported the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. 

Part of the proceeds from Russian assets frozen in the European Union will be used to supply ammunition to Ukraine as part of the Czech initiative.

The UK government has reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to Ukraine in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's statement about a slowdown in support from the UK.

Linas Linkevičius, former Lithuanian Foreign Minister, believes that the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk Oblast has become a trap for Russia and its ruler, Vladimir Putin.

Social Democrat Michael Roth, chairman of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, has criticised the coalition's approach to further funding for assistance to Ukraine. This coalition includes his own party.

The White House has decided not to comment on The Wall Street Journal's article which reported that Ukrainian officials had approved an operation to blow up Russia's Nord Stream pipeline.

Russia appears to have deployed several thousand troops from occupied Ukrainian territories to Kursk Oblast in response to the advancing Ukrainian offensive.

Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, denied Ukraine's involvement in the blowing up of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea and blamed the incident on Russia.

The Sky News TV channel reports with reference to its own sources that Ukrainian forces deployed the British Challenger 2 tanks during their offensive in Kursk Oblast in Russia.