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3:54 p.m.: We told you this morning: Russian officials are demanding the withdrawal of Russian citizenship for singer Valery Meladze after the artist pledged his support to Ukraine. On Telegram, the artist explains that he has lived “with a feeling of heaviness and sadness” for ten months. “The peoples I love very much are in a conflict where people are dying. (…) I only dream that the antagonism will end and that harmony will be established between neighboring peoples. And I am ready for that, giving everything is my strength.”
3:35 p.m .: A torture chamber has been discovered in a liberated village in the Mykolaiv region, the Ukrainian secret service (SBU) reports. They claim that the Russian army seized a house in Oleksandrivka to interrogate people who refused to cooperate. Also according to this source, the victims were notably beaten, suffocated with plastic bags and subjected to electric shocks.
2:43 p.m.: Journalists from the “Daily” program on TMC, who report in Ukraine, were surprised by a bomb attack a few dozen meters from them south of Kramatorsk in the east of the country. “It was very noisy. We had dust in our eyes and our mouths were full. Part of the hotel’s entrance collapsed on us, the windows shattered,” said reporter Paul Gasnier last night.
1:52 p.m.: Rallies were held in Russia today to commemorate soldiers killed in a strike claimed by Kyiv near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. According to Moscow, this strike claimed at least 63 lives and, according to Kyiv, several hundred. About 200 people attended an authorized rally in Samara, in the center of the country, where some of the soldiers killed were from.
11:56 am: I was telling you earlier about the explosion that sounded just outside the duplex of a journalist from the Quotidien program last night. A colleague from Bild, who was also near the ice rink, was slightly injured by a shard of glass.
11:49 a.m.: A Ukrainian family, two sides of the Kherson region – free and occupied – listen and cry together to Zelenskyy’s New Year’s speech. Russian terrorism will not conquer us. https://t.co/lHKhBkslmq
11:49 am: Incredible scene: A family shows Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wishes on a computer via video call to a relative who lives in the occupied zone and who does not have access to the pictures.
11:37 am: #Russian MPs and propagandists at a company party in #Dubai call for singer Valery #Meladze to be declared a “foreign agent” and revoked of his Russian citizenship for the phrase “Honour to the heroes”. https://t.co/ZK75iDcyIy
11:54 a.m .: Russian MPs have asked the authorities to revoke Russian citizenship from singer Valery Meladze. They failed to appreciate the artist’s support of Ukraine at the end-of-year celebrations in Dubai.
10:54 am: A #rocket explodes right next to our team in #Ukraine in front of their duplex in #Daily Great respect to the journalists on the ground risking their lives to let us know https://t.co/E4kUX471fe
10:54 a.m .: The viewers who watched the “Daily” show last night caught their breath. A rocket exploded just short of journalist Paul Gasnier’s duplex: “Our hands are still shaking”.
9:44 a.m.: Ukrainian intelligence claims it has collected enough evidence against two senior Russian military officials accused of being responsible for attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Colonel-General Sergei Kobylach and Admiral Igor Osipov are the first two people charged by Kyiv with bombing civilian targets. This crime is punishable by life imprisonment.
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10:14: At this point, 3,400 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are prisoners in Russia, according to an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyi Suspilne quoted by the media (article in Ukrainian). Alyona Verbytska adds that 15,000 Ukrainian citizens are missing. Since the war began, 1,596 Ukrainians have returned from captivity, including 187 women.
07:08: Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects a sustained drone attack from Shahed on the country. “It’s only been two days since the beginning of the year and the number of Iranian drones shot down over Ukraine is already over 80,” the Ukrainian President said in his most recent video message. That number could increase in the near future. Nights can be pretty rough.”
07:14: This is one of the news of the evening. Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the holding of a summit between Ukraine and the European Union on February 3 in Kyiv. The Office of the President of Ukraine states in its press release that this meeting will aim to discuss financial and military support from Europe.
In addition, Volodymyr Zelenskyi is said to have already discussed the details of this meeting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
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