The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of attacking its gas terminal near St. Petersburg. According to an official statement, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began his visit to Kiev on Monday morning. Follow the latest information.
10:39
ST. PETERSBURG
The Kremlin on Monday accused Ukraine of attacking the day before the gas terminal at the port of Ust Luga near Saint Petersburg on the Russian side of the Baltic Sea, about 900 km from the Ukrainian border.
“The Kiev regime continues to show its bestial face by attacking civilian infrastructure,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He also accused Ukraine of the bombing of the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, an “outrageous act of terrorism” that killed 27 people.
10:16
UKRAINIAN CITIZENSHIP
President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed on Monday to open Ukrainian citizenship to foreign fighters and people of Ukrainian origin without requiring them to give up their other citizenship – a radical change since the law prohibits multinationality.
Mr. Zelensky assured on social networks that the reform must benefit “foreign fighters who have come to defend Ukraine, those who fight for the freedom of Ukraine as if it were their homeland.”
The text will also allow “all ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants around the world to have our citizenship, except, of course, the citizens of the aggressor state,” he said.
09:22
UNITY DAY IN UKRAINE
“Only strong Ukrainians can be united. And only united Ukrainians can be strong,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message published on X on the occasion of Unity Day. Every year on January 22, the country celebrates the signing of an agreement between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919 at Hagia Sophia Square in Kyiv. The unification has been recorded in the calendar of official commemorations for 24 years.
If all Ukrainians join hands, they will not ask them to surrender. We all fight. And today that doesn't just apply to the two banks of the Dnipro. Today the unity of Ukrainians extends across both hemispheres of the world. There were people in every corner on February 24th… pic.twitter.com/ylDwWkOLyj — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 22, 2024
08:45
DONALD TUSK IN Kyiv
According to his press service, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began his visit to Kiev (Ukraine) on Monday morning.
“On January 22, Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited Kyiv. The Polish head of government will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Chmygal,” an official statement said.
07:24
RUSSIAN DRONES
Ukraine today claims to have shot down eight Iranian-made drones that Russia launched over its territory overnight. “The enemy attacked with eight Shahed-136/131 drones,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement, saying they were fired from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk region on the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov.
The drones were shot down by defense installations in several regions of southern and central Ukraine, it added. At this time, no damage from falling debris has been reported.
07:22
GOOD MORNING
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A bomb attack in the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine killed at least 27 people on Sunday, including many victims at a rush-hour market, local authorities said. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of increasing attacks on residential areas in the past two months while the front line is largely frozen.
In Donetsk, local pro-Russian authorities accused the Ukrainian army of bombing an outlying neighborhood in the southwest of the city where the market is located, less than 15 km from the front. “27 civilians were killed and 25 others sustained injuries of varying severity, including two teenagers,” Moscow-based regional official Denis Pushilin said.
Kiev, in turn, reported Russian bomb attacks on Sunday that killed at least two people in villages under Ukrainian control west of Donetsk.
The results of the Donetsk bombing are among the worst since Russia's war against Ukraine began in February 2022.
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