"We unequivocally condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine, including and in particular the forced deportation of Ukrainian children, as well as other grave violations against children committed by Russian forces in Ukraine", reads the statement, published by Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya.

The Polish president Andrzej Duda has assured visiting Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky that Poland will continue supporting his country in its defensive war against Russia.  Photo by  Andrzej Lange/PAP

"Poland’s position is very clear: Poland is not a part of this war and does not want to be a part of any other war" - the secretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of Poland Marcin Przydacz, said.

“It is a lie that Hungary vetoed the EU statement on the International Criminal Court (ICC) case,” Hungarian Foreign Affairs spokesman Máté Paczolay told the Hungarian State News Agency, MTI on Monday evening.  A placard showing a picture of Russian president Vladimir Putin with the direction of The Hague, the seat of the UN

Slovakia has become the second country to approve sending 13 fighter jets to Ukraine after Poland announced it would send four yesterday. 

The world has never been so close to turning a local war into a world war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Kossuth Rádió.

We’re under constant pressure. They want to force us into war, and they’re using all the tools they can. So far we’ve managed to resist. This gives me hope. Hungary’s political leadership is strong enough to keep our country out of the war.

Today marks one year since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine started. - We Hungarians, wish that the road to a just peace may open! Let 2023 be the year of peace!

Members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic have condemned Russia’s full-scale attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and crucial energy infrastructure in their resolution. The resolution has also called the current Russian regime a terrorist one and Russia itself – a state supporting terrorism.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally requested Slovak government to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. According to Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nada, the Ukrainians can turn 11 Slovak grounded fighters into 7 flying ones.

Germany officially approved sending 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Berlin will also give permission for other countries to send theirs Leopard tanks too. Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/PAP/DPA (JAP)

- The battle for freedom and our future is raging as we speak... Tanks must not be left in storehouses, but placed in their hands - the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared on Monday in Berlin.