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Trucks in the queue at the Porubne-Siret border crossing. Photo: Getty Images Farmers in Romania once again blocked lorry traffic through the Siret checkpoint on the border with Ukraine on 14 January. Source: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS),…

photo: the National Police Russia has struck the city of Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast with aircraft bombs, destroying a grain storage. Source: Serhii Bolvinov, head of the Investigative Department of the police in Kharkiv Oblast Quote: “Destroyed harvest and demolished…

The ministry said that the strategy of massing forces and fires in a relatively small area had enabled Russian troops to achieve local successes. In contrast, during the first month of the large-scale invasion, Russia suffered military setbacks after scattering…

German defense committee chief urges Scholz to unblock supplies of armored vehicles to Ukraine. Skip to content This audio is created with AI assistance Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of the German parliament’s defense committee, has called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s…

Ukrainian court jails 2 Russian soldiers charged with war crimes. Skip to content This audio is created with AI assistance The court sentenced the two Russians, Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov, to 11.5 years in prison for shelling residential areas…

Ukraine’s General Staff said that Russian troops had unsuccessfully tried to storm the village of Dovhenke near Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast. Russian troops are also trying to storm Zolote, Komyshuvakha, Nyrkove, Berestove, Pokrovske and Dolomitne near Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, the…

Austrian chancellor: Next package of Russia sanctions won’t include gas embargo. Skip to content This audio is created with AI assistance Karl Nehammer claimed that it would be much more difficult to replace Russian gas than Russian oil. Earlier the…

Verkhovna Rada dismisses ombudsman Denisova. Skip to content This audio is created with AI assistance 234 lawmakers voted to dismiss Lyudmyla Denisova. Earlier, Ukrainian journalists and activists have expressed concerns over Denisova’s reports of rapes by Russian soldiers, that were…

Yermak: 80 countries attend Ukraine Peace Formula meeting at Davos. Eighty countries attended the fourth meeting on Ukraine’s Peace Formula at Davos, Switzerland, an increase from the 66 attendees at the previous meeting, held in Malta. The goal of the…

Gazprom leaves London Stock Exchange. Skip to content This audio is created with AI assistance Gazprom left the London Stock Exchange following the Russian government’s demand that Russian companies quit Western stock markets. The Kyiv Independent news desk We are…