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Putin rejects talks with ‘illegitimate’ Zelensky as North Korean cannon deployed - Putin is ‘afraid of strong leaders’, says Zelensky

The drone blew out a wall and surrounding windows in the building in Sumy, a major city, just after 1 a.m., the Sumy regional administration said.

Its forces captured Solone village, about 7.4 miles southwest of Pokrovsk, key front in Moscow's offensive in eastern Donetsk region, says Russian Defense Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

Reports that the embattled Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar has fallen to Russian forces have been dismissed by experts and officials speaking to the Kyiv Independent, and the latest OSINT data suggests fighting is still ongoing.

The number of Russians signing contracts at Moscow recruitment centres to fight in the war against Ukraine has fallen five-fold since its peak in late summer of last year, the independent Russian outlet Verstka reported on Jan.

Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces took control of another settlement in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow continues to claim advances amid an ongoing regional offensive.

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Moscow recorded its warmest temperature since the beginning of the year and winter on January 30, according to Mikhail Leus, the leading specialist at the Phobos weather center. By 10 a.m. Moscow time, the temperature in the capital had risen to 6.3 degrees Celsius.

MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. A passenger plane on a Dubai-Moscow flight sent out a distress signal over the Caspian Sea, data from the flight tracking service Flightradar showed. The Boeing-737 indicated a General Emergency code about 20 minutes ago over the Caspian Sea.

As the EU agrees to extend sanctions on Russia by another six months, the Russian Defence Ministry has said its forces have occupied the east Ukrainian town of Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region,