The rapper, who has been sentenced in absentia, had admitted to smoking a cannabis joint on stage at a festival last year.

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said she is “fully confident” that European Union leaders will agree on a way to support Ukraine through a reparations loan, given the vital importance of the issue.

Ukraine has carried out an exchange of GDP warrants issued in 2015, with a total value of USD 2.6 billion, for conventional debt securities due 2030, 2032, and 2034.

In the Odesa region, traffic to certain border crossing points on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border has been restricted following a Russian air attack.

The Russian army attacked a school in Zaporizhzhia with a Molniya drone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Poland, where he will meet with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.

In the Odesa district, a Russian drone struck a civilian car traveling across a bridge, killing a woman and injuring her three children.

The company behind President Trump’s Truth Social platform makes a surprising move into the energy sector.

On December 18 in Beijing, Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya held Ukrainian-Chinese political consultations with Liu Bin, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (with the rank of deputy minister).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said does not see the need to amend Ukraine’s Constitution to remove the country’s course toward NATO membership.