German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on his way to Kyiv by train that his country would continue providing financial and humanitarian aid, as well as weapons, to Ukraine as long as it is necessary for defending Ukraine's independence, German newspaper Bild reported. Scholz has been criticized for blocking and delaying arms supplies to Ukraine, and Germany has not yet supplied any heavy weapons.
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Wednesday, December 31
The Kyiv Independent's Tim Zadorozhnyy speaks with Meaghan Mobbs, head of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation and the daughter of President Donald Trump's outgoing special envoy on Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
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Over 170,000 people are without power after the attack, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
Romania will contribute 50 million euros ($59 million), according to a press release by the Romanian government.
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Ukraine's military reportedly struck oil depots in the various Russian and Russian-occupied regions late on Dec. 30, Russian Telegram media channels reported.
The number includes 1,000 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported intercepting 101 of the 127 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Tuesday, December 30
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Dec. 29 that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him Ukraine had tried to attack Putin's residence, an allegation Kyiv has denied. "I learned about it from President Putin today. I was very angry about it," Trump said.
"Where is their condemnation of the fact that our children are being bombed and people are being killed all this time? I don't hear India, frankly, nor the United Arab Emirates," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 30.
National security advisers from the Coalition of the Willing countries, led by the U.K. and France, have agreed to meet in Ukraine on Jan. 3, according to Zelensky. The meeting will be followed by another meeting among state leaders, planned for Jan. 6 in France.
"Each restoration requires significant time and resources, as the level of damage varies across regions," Deputy Energy Minister Olha Yukhymchuk said.
Ukraine struck a Russian drone storage facility at Donetsk Airport in occupied Donetsk Oblast, Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi said on Dec. 30.
