Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has criticised his EU counterparts for their lack of support for Viktor Orbán's Christmas truce proposal at a foreign ministers' meeting on 16 December.

Jens Gieseke, a German Member of the European Parliament, has cycled 600 km (nearly 400 miles) in five days to raise funds for Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated that as long as he is in charge of the government, Berlin will not supply Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles and will not allow German soldiers to participate in the war.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Slovak President Peter Pellegrini's statement, in which he suggested that Ukraine may need to make territorial concessions for peace, reminding him of the fate of Slovak territories when they were surrendered to the aggressor.

The Council of the European Union adopted the 15th package of economic and individual restrictive measures on Monday, 16 December, which included North Korean officials and Chinese suppliers of drone kits.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has said that it was too early to speculate on a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.

Norway is allocating another NOK 2.7 billion (about US$242.38 million) to strengthen Ukraine's maritime capabilities.

Dmytro Kuleba, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister, has said that UK Prime Minister Starmer has reduced the UK's support for Ukraine.

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has stated that peace must first be achieved before talking about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine, emphasising that Russia is not ready for such a development.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has called on the ministers of EU member states to jointly appeal to the European Commission and urge it to adopt a strategy for countering Russia's hybrid actions. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has discussed the need to strengthen military support for Ukraine with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

The Estonian Defence Forces Intelligence Centre has noted in its weekly report the advance of Russian forces on the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts in Donetsk Oblast and the successful actions of Ukrainian troops on the Kupiansk front in Kharkiv Oblast.

Hungary "did everything it could" when it initiated a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.

Andrius Kubilius, the new EU Defence Commissioner, who is on a visit to Kyiv, had to spend the morning of Friday, 13 December, in a shelter due to a large-scale combined attack by Russia.

Nate Fick, US Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, and Doug Beck, Director of the Defence Innovation Unit, have arrived in Kyiv to meet with representatives of Ukraine's defence and technology sector.

Because of a new Russian large-scale attack on energy infrastructure, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha reminded partners about Ukraine's request for at least 20 additional medium-range air defence systems.

Czechia has organised a campaign to raise money for a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk combat helicopter to be supplied to Ukrainian military intelligence.

Poland scrambled its aircraft because of a Russian large-scale combined strike on Ukrainian regions on the morning of 13 December.

Following a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, French President Emmanuel Macron praised Poland's role in supporting Ukraine since the Kremlin unleashed its full-scale war against Kyiv.

Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs will allocate an additional €200,000 from the 2024 budget to help the people of Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said that since February 2022, the number of casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war has exceeded one million people killed and wounded.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has called his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to complain about Ukraine's rejection of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's proposal for a Christmas truce and a prisoner-of-war swap between Kyiv and Moscow.

US President-elect Donald Trump does not understand why Washington allowed Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with US missiles.

US President-elect Donald Trump has emphasised that he would continue to support Ukraine in his efforts to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian war.

During a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk refuted rumours that Poland would send troops to Ukraine, saying there were no plans for a European peacekeeping force.

Kaja Kallas, the new High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, believes that billions of Russian state-owned funds frozen in the EU should be used to help Ukraine.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha will visit Germany on 12 December on the invitation of his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has said it is critical that the international community continue to help Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression.

Svenja Schulze, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, arrived in Kyiv on 12 December to personally hand over part of Germany's aid to Ukraine for the third winter of the full-scale war against Russia.