On Tuesday, May 9, the Pentagon announced a new military assistance package of $1.2 billion to Ukraine.

The European Parliament voted to prolong tariff-free trade with Ukraine for another year to support the Ukrainian economy in wartimes.

The Russian ambassador in Poland had to pay tribute to fallen Ukrainians by laying flowers at a Soviet monument.

Activists of the Euromaidan Warsaw initiative woke Russian diplomats in Warsaw at 06:00 on 9 May with the sound of sirens and bombing.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly left for Washington on May 8 to meet US Secretary of State and leading members of Congress to discuss the US and UK's long-term commitment to Ukraine.

The UK is likely to send long-range missiles to Kyiv.

The last four-week instructor courses for Ukrainian troops have finished in Lithuania.

Unrecognised Transnistria has asked Russia to increase the number of so-called Russian "peacekeepers," citing an increase in security risks.

The German concern Rheinmetall wants to provide Ukraine with a significant amount of artillery ammunition and announced plans to produce up to 600,000 shells per year.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has commented on the upcoming counterattack planned by the Ukrainian army.

Leopard 1 tanks, sent by Denmark and Germany, will be ready for deployment in Ukraine by June 1.

Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine's Defence Minister, has called on Germany to join the creation of a "maritime coalition" in support of Ukraine to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black and Azov seas.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has urged Russia not to use the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin as an excuse for further escalation of the war.

Alexander de Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium, has said that he was on his way to the Hague to meet with his Dutch Counterpart Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has welcomed the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) report on forcible deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to other occupied territories and to the Russian Federation.

Finland can only hand over its Hornet fighter jets to Ukraine once it replaces them to protect the country from Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that he is confident that Western allies will provide aircraft to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

EU ambassadors will try again on 3 May to agree on approaches to the joint purchase of ammunition for Ukraine, discussing an option that should be acceptable to France and which could end disputes.

The Verkhovna Rada has appealed to the European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the EU, World Trade Organisation, governments, and parliaments of foreign countries to impose sanctions against Russian and Belarusian timber, fish, and seafood.

The US Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, stated that Washington wants to see China press Russia to end its war in Ukraine.

The Danish parliament has approved a decision to allocate a new package of military assistance worth 1.7 billion Danish kroner (over $250 million) to Ukraine.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, is convinced that sooner or later, the Western allies will decide to provide Ukraine with Western F-16 fighters, as was previously the case with all other weapons.

Jiří Kobza, a MP of the Czech right-wing populist party "Freedom and Direct Democracy," stated that a civil war is ongoing in Ukraine. His words were immediately refuted by the head of Czech diplomacy, Jan Lipavský.

Alicia Kearns, the Conservative MP who is chair of the foreign affairs select committee at the House of Commons in London, has offered what she calls "an economic Ramstein of those fighting for Ukraine’s freedom."

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister, urges people not to view the Ukrainian counteroffensive as a decisive battle: the final battle is the one that will lead to the complete liberation of Ukrainian territories.

EU's permanent representatives have agreed to prolong tariff-free trade with Ukraine for another year to support the Ukrainian economy.

Ukrainian tank crews have started training on the older model of the Leopard tank, Leopard 1, and 80 of these tanks will be gradually sent to Ukraine in the summer of 2023.

The US and UK ambassadors reacted to the Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on the night of April 28, killing at least 14 people.

The new Czech president, Petr Pavel, and his Slovak counterpart, Zuzana Čaputová, have arrived in Ukraine together.