Ukraine

The Russians suffered the largest loss of personnel in a week - about 5,000 troops - while trying to retake Avdiivka from Ukrainian forces.

Georgia's largest opposition party has begun collecting signatures for an appeal to the president demanding the release of former President Mikheil Saakashvili from prison.

A resident of Rivne was suspected of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl whom he met online and drove to a deserted area despite her resistance.

President Zelenskyy met with French President Macron at the Elysee Palace to discuss cooperation between Ukraine and France and sign an important agreement.

Ukrzaliznytsia will put four more ambulances on the tracks to evacuate wounded soldiers to rear hospitals, bringing the total number of medical cars to 62, and plans to deliver eight more cars by the end of 2024.

Controversy with German entrepreneurs over Green Deal initiatives could affect Ursula von der Leyen's programme when she is re-elected president of the European Commission.

Over 225,000 applications for various weapons-related permits were submitted to the Unified Register of Weapons of Ukraine.

President Zelenskiy arrived in France to meet with officials and sign a bilateral security agreement during his visit to Paris.

Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko discussed deepening cooperation in the energy sector with his counterparts from the UK, France and Lithuania at a ministerial meeting in Paris on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the International Energy Agency.

The Russian military shelled the town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovs'k region of Ukraine with heavy artillery and drones, the head of the Dnipropetrovs'k regional military administration said.

Daria Bilodid won bronze at the Grand Slam tournament in Baku, defeating Julie Burskens from the Netherlands, her first competition in six months after a back injury.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced plans to increase teacher salaries by 21% and a large-scale reform of higher education as priorities in the government's action plan until 2024.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is deploying a new grouping of mine countermeasures forces in the Black Sea using two British Sandown-class mine countermeasures ships.

The Kherson Art Museum has identified 88 paintings from its collection that were stolen by the Russian occupiers and found in Crimea, including a work by People's Artist of Ukraine Viktor Poltavets.

The Ukrainian government allocates UAH 2. 5 billion for the construction of shelters in educational institutions and UAH 1.5 billion for the development of the New Ukrainian School program.

A civilian was killed as a result of a six-hour-long shelling by Russian troops of the Velykopysarivska territorial community of Okhtyrka district, Sumy region.

Doctors at the Center for Children's Medicine in Lviv shortened the baby's tongue, which was 5 times longer than normal due to the rare Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

The official statement of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, however, states that "every month, employees of the executive office of the regional council raise funds to purchase the most necessary things for the Armed Forces units. In 2023, more than a million hryvnias were raised.

Zelenskyy met with German President Steinmeier in Berlin. We talked about the situation at the front and the current defense needs of Ukraine.

Partisans in Crimea put up a Ukrainian flag on Mount Chatyr-Dag in honor of the Day of Unification of Ukraine.

Allowing putin to succeed in Ukraine and forcibly move borders in Europe would undermine the European peace order and set a dangerous precedent for further aggression, the German Chancellor believes.

Germany has provided Ukraine with 3 demining vehicles, reconnaissance drones, 155-mm ammunition and other military equipment as part of a new military aid package.

Between December 30 and February 7, Russia fired 24 North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine, killing 14 civilians.

Germany will provide Ukraine with artillery systems and other weapons as part of a new $1. 1 billion defense package that President Zelenskiy says will soon be deployed to the front.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the death of Alexei Navalny is another murder by Putin of another critic of the Russian government.

The US vice president warned that isolationism and abandonment of allies is dangerous and undermines stability, implicitly rejecting Trump's worldview.

After two previous detentions, a third truck was intercepted this month as it tried to smuggle cigarettes across the Ukrainian-Romanian border.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced plans to create this year an analog of the Diia digital service for civil servants to speed up their work and improve its quality and transparency.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine announced that the government is working weekly with partners to attract USD 37 billion in external financing to cover the state budget deficit.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced that in the first half of 2024, Ukraine will form a team to negotiate accession to the European Union.