Dmytro Kuleba, the former Foreign Minister of Ukraine, has warned against hopes for peace between Russia and Ukraine due to the future efforts of US President-elect Donald Trump and stressed that the Kremlin regime continues to pursue its original goals.

Major General Christian Freuding, Head of the Planning Staff and the Special Task Force for Ukraine at Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence, believes that Germany is currently the main target of Russia’s hybrid attacks due to its leading role in supporting Ukraine.

Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been given a position in Donald Trump's administration by the US president-elect, has responded to President Joe Biden's request to Congress for an additional US$24 billion in assistance to Ukraine, to include weapons and to replenish US stockpiles.

Georgian fighter Spartak Lekiashvili, who was wounded in Ukraine, has died while undergoing treatment in France.

US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to provide an additional US$24 billion to strengthen military support for Ukraine.

On Tuesday, 26 November, Lithuania presented Russian charge d'affaires Alexander Elkin with a letter of protest against Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.

The Norwegian government, after consultations with the opposition, proposes to increase aid to Ukraine in 2025 to NOK 30 billion (about US$2.7 billion) in comparison to this year’s NOK 27 billion (about US$2.4 billion).

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs is providing an additional €65 million for the repair of Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

The Embassy of Ukraine in Czechia has facilitated the delivery of 11 ambulances to the Ukrainian defence forces.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda stated that any rare accidents in Europe now naturally raise suspicions of sabotage due to Russia's destructive behaviour. However, he emphasised that it is too early to speculate on the causes of the plane crash over Vilnius.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has once again defended his controversial phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has said that Warsaw is planning to host the next meeting of the defence ministers of five countries to discuss support for Ukraine, similar to the one that just took place in Berlin.

The defence ministers of five major European countries have called for continued support for Ukraine amidst concerns about the potential influence of US President-elect Donald Trump.

Bloomberg, citing its sources, reports that the UK government has recently delivered dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine without public announcement, even before the decision to allow Ukraine to use Western missiles to hit targets in Russia.

Europe must be tough on US President-elect Donald Trump if it wants to prove something to him and persuade him to help Ukraine, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, who is stepping down from his position, has stated that Europe still needs to make greater efforts to support Ukraine in its war against Russia and to strengthen its own defence capabilities.

Russia's ground forces are now larger than they were at the time of beginning of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but their quality has declined since then.

The UK government has announced the introduction of what it described as the largest sanctions package, targeting 30 ships from Russia's shadow fleet.

Discussions on deploying Western troops and private defence contractors to Ukraine have resumed in Europe after Donald Trump's victory in the US elections. 

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha will visit Italy from 25 to 26 November to participate in the G7 ministerial meeting.

Serhii Boiev, the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defence for European Integration, and Nils Hilmer, State Secretary at the German Defence Ministry, have discussed cooperation in the production of air defence systems and armoured vehicles.

Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans called Russia's use of the new Oreshnik missile another escalatory step.

The Estonian Ministry of Defence views the Russian medium-range ballistic missile strike, dubbed Oreshnik by Vladimir Putin, to be a political signal.

Ukraine is working with its US partners to obtain a THAAD anti-ballistic missile defence system or upgrade the Patriot in the wake of Russia's attack with a new experimental missile type.

The NATO-Ukraine Council will meet next Tuesday in connection with Russia's first use of an experimental ballistic missile on Ukrainian territory.

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský arrived in Kyiv on a visit on the morning of 22 November.

Two Western officials have told Reuters that preliminary evidence shows that Russia did not use an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to strike Ukraine on the morning of 21 November.

France currently has no evidence that Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to attack Ukraine on 21 November, but it does talk of Moscow's "continued escalation".

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has spoken about the difficult situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, saying that the front line is now "less stable than at any time since the early days of the full-scale invasion" in February 2022.