Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German opposition and candidate to become the German Chancellor of the parliamentary group of CDU/CSU (Union), arrived in Kyiv on a working trip on 9 December.

Municipal workers removed photos of Georgian media employees, who had been injured during protests or deliberately attacked by law enforcement or "thugs", from a Christmas tree that the authorities had begun assembling in Tbilisi on the night of 8-9 December.

Lieutenant Colonel Mattias Puusepp, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Estonian Defence Forces, has stated that neither Ukraine nor Russia managed to make significant breakthroughs at the front during the week while intense combat actions continued along the entire line of contact.

Prime Minister Kristen Michal meets Frankenburg Technologies. Source: Frankenburg TechnologiesEstonian defence company Frankenburg Technologies will start testing its own anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine next year.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has said that Russia violated the key principles of international relations, so the speech of his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting resembled "a testimony from a parallel universe".

A survey by the Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI) shows that the majority of US citizens believe that their country should remain an active player in world politics and continue to help Ukraine.

Representatives of Ukrenergo national energy distribution company and their American partners, led by US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, have discussed the protection of key equipment in Ukraine's power transmission system.

Denmark will provide €6 million to recover Ukraine's energy infrastructure damaged by Russian occupation forces.

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has said that Russia could be involved in 100 suspicious incidents in Europe that occurred over the course of 2024.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has stated that Russia's involvement can currently be observed in many ongoing wars around the world.

This autumn, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supplied Ukraine with three generators for crossings on its borders with Moldova and Romania.

The Georgian Legion, which is fighting the Russian army in Ukraine, has denied Russian propaganda claims that it is planning to return to Georgia to take part in anti-government protests.

A regional court in Essen, Germany, has sentenced four teenagers to eight and a half and ten years in prison for the murder of two Ukrainian basketball players, Volodymyr Yermakov and Artem Kozachenko.

Antonio Costa, President of the EU Council, believes that it's only up to Ukraine to define what a just peace is in the Russo-Ukrainian war.