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15.38 CET
Kira Rudik, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said “we are not happy to hear just ‘deep concerns’ after massive missile attacks on our peaceful cities”.
“What we really need is more firm timely decisions to back our fight,” she said.
We are not happy to hear just “deep concerns” after massive missile attacks on our peaceful cities. What we really need is more firm timely decisions to back our fight.
— Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) January 5, 2024
Updated at 16.22 CET
15.32 CET
A group of 125 Ukrainian refugees has been evacuated from a hotel due to high water in the Netherlands.
Although a recent “room for the river” project, a €2.3bn plan to give back room to floodplains for rivers, is credited with avoiding disaster following recent rainfall, some areas of the Netherlands have had to employ sandbags to keep out the high water and the country is on alert.
Updated at 16.23 CET
15.06 CET
‘We’ll make sure North Korea pays a high price,’ Shapps says
Grant Shapps, the British secretary of state for defence, said today that “the world has turned its back on Russia, forcing Putin into the humiliation of going cap in hand to North Korea to keep his illegal invasion going”.
He added:
In doing so Russia has broken multiple UNSC resolutions and put the security of another world region at risk. This must stop now. Together with our partners we’ll make sure North Korea pays a high price for supporting Russia.
The world has turned its back on Russia, forcing Putin into the humiliation of going cap in hand to North Korea to keep his illegal invasion going.
In doing so Russia has broken multiple UNSC resolutions and put the security of another world region at risk.
This must stop now.…
— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) January 5, 2024
Updated at 16.23 CET
13.44 CET
Dozens of Ukrainian drones shot down over occupied Crimea and southern Russia, Russia says
Russia says it air defences downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia on Friday as Kyiv continued its strategy of targeting the Moscow-annexed peninsula, the Associated Press reports.
Air raid sirens were heard in Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea, and traffic was suspended for a second day on a bridge connecting the peninsula – which Moscow seized illegally a decade ago – with Russia’s southern Krasnodar region. The bridge is a crucial supply link for Russia’s war effort.
The Russian defence ministry said its forces intercepted 36 drones over Crimea and one over Krasnodar. A Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missile was also destroyed over the north-western part of the Black Sea, the ministry said.
The developments came after three people were injured on Thursday night by other Ukrainian rocket and drone attacks on the Russian border city of Belgorod and the surrounding region, said the Belgorod governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to strike more targets on the Crimean Peninsula and inside Russian border regions this year.
Updated at 14.34 CET