Chinese officials have proposed to US President Donald Trump's team that China organises a meeting with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin through intermediaries.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stated that Europe should take responsibility for providing the majority of lethal and non-lethal aid to Ukraine in the future.

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has, for the first time, approved the extradition of a Ukrainian citizen who had attempted to avoid extradition by citing his personal objections to serving in the Armed Forces.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has announced that Britain will provide £4.5 billion (approx. US$5.5 billion) in military aid to Ukraine in 2025.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that he is not concerned about reports of possible contacts between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Polish President Andrzej Duda expects that his American counterpart, Donald Trump, will soon propose a solution to end the Russo-Ukrainian war.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed the European Union's commitment to a just and lasting peace for Ukraine during a meeting in Paris with US Vice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday, 11 February.

US President Donald Trump welcomed American teacher Marc Fogel, who had been released from Russian imprisonment, at the White House on the evening of Tuesday, 11 February. Fogel had been held in Russia since 2021.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine, stressing that President Donald Trump hopes for a quick peace deal.

The Washington Post has learnt that new US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not planning to announce new arms supplies for Ukrainian soldiers at the 12 February meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein format.

Yuliia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, has stated that Ukraine will continue actively working with its partners to find the best possible solution for the steel industry before the new US tariffs take effect.

Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of the German pro-Russian far-left party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, has refused to comment on whether she was pleased that Ukraine "still exists after three years" of full-scale war, rather than capitulating to Russia in the first week.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has said that reports of US President Donald Trump's peace plan are 70% baseless.

Reuters, citing its sources, reported that US President Donald Trump's administration plans to urge European allies to purchase more American weapons for Ukraine as potential peace talks with Moscow loom.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that the key issue at the Munich Security Conference, which will take place from 14 to 16 February, will be the Russo-Ukrainian war.

US President Donald Trump has stated that Ukraine "essentially agreed" to allow the US access to mineral extraction on its territory in exchange for aid.

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, will visit Ukraine next week.

Gert Jan Koopman, the European Commission's Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR), has said that Ukraine should consider changes to its wartime regulations.

Ukraine and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed agreements to finance the restoration of energy and critical infrastructure.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has met with Pope Francis to discuss, among other things, the need to establish a just peace in Ukraine.

Russia has lost over 700,000 soldiers, either killed or wounded, since the beginning of the large-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.

NATO believes that Russia's cooperation with North Korea can be stopped, among other things, by intercepting arms supplies.

European countries are exploring a legal mechanism to tighten inspections and allow the confiscation of tankers transporting Russian oil through the Baltic Sea, citing their ongoing risk of environmental disaster and "accidental" damage to underwater infrastructure.

The Lithuanian fundraising campaign Radarom! has been launched for the third time in Lithuania ahead of the third anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, raising €1 million in less than a week.

The special tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine is expected to become operational after the adoption of an international agreement, which could happen as early as 2025.

Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Head of the Estonian Defence Forces' Intelligence Centre, has reported that after a limited success in Donetsk Oblast, Russia began reorganising its forces.

The Ukrainian government insists that Ukraine is committed to become a member of both the EU and NATO amid rumours suggesting that Donald Trump's proposed peace plan includes Ukraine's renunciation of NATO membership in exchange for EU accession by 2030.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will head the Ukrainian delegation at next week's Munich Security Conference.

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, has said that the approach to ending the war should be pragmatic, which implies certain concessions from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.