Cover photo: A resident walks past buildings destroyed by Russian bombing in Kupyansk near Kharkiv, December 28, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka / AP
- French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu met the Ukrainian President in Kyiv on Wednesday. After the meeting, Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Telegram that he was “grateful to France for the military assistance already provided to protect the Ukrainian skies and strengthen the capabilities of the country’s defense forces.”
- The shelling left several injured in Kharkiv and near Khersonthe regional authorities announced on Wednesday.
- “Only a few civilians” are still present in Bakhmout, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complained on Facebook on Wednesday. “Last year there were 70,000 people living there,” he added, without specifying the number of civilians who are still there.
- The deficit of the Ukrainian power grid has worsened because of the bombing of gas infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, operator Ukrenergo, national manager of the electricity transmission network, said on Facebook on Wednesday.
- Moscow’s ban on selling Russian oil abroad, effective February 1, limits its price is not “pointless, but it has no practical meaning,” commented Berlin on Wednesday.
- Ukraine has bought almost 1,400 dronesmainly models for reconnaissance missions, and plans to develop combat models to be able to attack the explosive drones used by the Russians in the invasion of the country, announced the minister in charge of Ukraine’s technologies.
- The International Organization for Migration announced this in a statement on Wednesday to be able to help “more than 700,000 Ukrainians”. in winter thanks to humanitarian funds provided by the European Union.
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