Ukraine and the European Union will meet at a summit in Kyiv on February 3, Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said in a statement Monday (January 2). Ukraine’s leader shared details of the high-level meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in his first phone call of the year. Follow our live.
HASAt least 63 Russian soldiers killed in a strike claimed by Ukraine, deplores Moscow. Russia on Monday acknowledged the death of 63 soldiers in Ukraine, killed in a Ukrainian strike in separatist territory in the east of the country, the heaviest losses in a single attack admitted by Moscow since the start of the invasion. The Ukrainian general staff confirmed having carried out this strike on Makiivka, a city under Russian occupation, on New Year’s Eve.
An attack targeted kyiv on Monday. A new airstrike targeted kyiv at dawn on Monday, after a New Year’s Day marked by dozens of Russian strikes in Ukraine that left at least five people dead and dozens injured. “The Russians have launched several waves of Shahed drones” made in Iran, said Oleksiï Kouleba, the head of the Kyiv region’s military administration, adding that the strikes were directed against “essential infrastructure”.
Unpopular Russian gas in 2022. Gazprom’s gas exports, excluding countries of the former Soviet bloc, fell by 45.5% in 2022, according to results announced on Monday. After the economic sanctions taken by the West against Russia, in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has sharply reduced its hydrocarbon exports to the EU.