"The whole [Trump] team is obsessed with strength and looking strong, so they’re recalibrating the Ukraine approach," one European official told the Financial Times.

At a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence after Congress certified his presidential victory, Donald Trump noted that Ukraine and Russia continued to lose many people and stressed that if he had been president,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed optimism that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's "strength and unpredictability" could play a decisive role in ending the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.

Slovakia is weighing measures against Ukraine including withholding aid if a solution is not found to halted Russian gas transit through the country, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday after talks with EU energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen.

Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Tuesday he had helped secure Slovakia's gas supply during a visit to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine halted the transit of gas from Russia at the start of 2025.

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico said he wasn’t ruling out the resumption of gas through Ukraine after a deal between Kyiv and Moscow expired at the beginning of this year.