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Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's delegation at the Abu Dhabi talks, during an official visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine agree to large-scale prisoner exchange in Abu Dhabi, and Trump's envoys fly to Moscow on Thursday

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service and of the Ukrainian delegation in Abu Dhabi, during a visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine talk for nearly four hours in Abu Dhabi and return to the table on Wednesday

Qasr Al Watan, the presidential palace of the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi in March 2022. The city hosts the new round of Ukraine negotiations.

Europe secures a presence in Abu Dhabi, where the US, Ukraine and Russia meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official European Commission photograph from December 2024.

Montenegro could close all its EU accession chapters by the end of 2026, European Commission says

Crews from Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS) work on rubble, in a photograph released by the service itself in 2024. The image is from the archive and does not show the attack in Komyshuvakha.

Russian bombing of a school used to hand out humanitarian aid kills 26 in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, arrives at the NATO summit in The Hague, in June 2025.

Finland and Norway spend 90 minutes on the phone with Putin, and Denmark and Sweden criticise a move made outside the European bloc

The central square of Oleshky, in Ukraine's Kherson region, in a 2007 archive photograph, before the Russian invasion.

Local truce takes effect in Oleshky, the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city where about 2,000 residents remain

President Iliana Yotova hands Andrey Gyurov, then deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the mandate to form a caretaker cabinet, in February 2026. The two now face each other in the presidential runoff.

Bulgaria heads to a presidential runoff on 1 November after turnout of barely 22%

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Hospitalised after lung surgery, Leo XIV phones Putin to ask for a truce to reach Oleshky

The Europa building, where the European Council meets, in Brussels, in 2013.

Zelenskyy asks for €70 billion for 2027, and the EU summit ends with no decision on the €210 billion in frozen Russian assets

A State Emergency Service of Ukraine crew removes the remains of an unexploded Russian ballistic missile in Kyiv after the attack on the city on the night of 7 October 2026.

Russia fires 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine's power grid, hitting all three of Kyiv's heat and power plants

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official portrait from December 2024.

EU opens two more accession clusters for Ukraine as Hungary lifts its veto

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in an official portrait from November 2024.

EU blacklists 1,569 companies and executives in Russia's military industry, its largest listing since 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen speaking to the press at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels in August 2025.

EU and Ukraine say 2026 budget and defence spending is covered, and target €45 billion next year

The fifth-generation THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle, built by Estonia's Milrem Robotics.

Estonia blames Russia for the arson attack on the military robotics firm that supplies Ukraine

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during a visit to the White House, in August 2025.

South Korea and Ukraine

Seoul demands an apology from Kyiv after Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of two North Korean POWs

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission, taken in November 2024.

EU unlocks €6.6 billion for Ukraine's defence, frozen by a Hungarian veto since 2023

The Berlaymont building in Brussels' European quarter, headquarters of the European Commission, in 2019.

Brussels ties €20 billion for Ukraine to the pace of reform and is already holding back €3.9 billion

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September 2026.

Ballistic missiles kill two in Kyiv hours after Zelensky offers an energy truce at the UN

AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, in a montage of two photographs.

Germany and Russia

Putin's envoy and Germany's AfD prepare talks on bringing Russian gas back