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Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations
The Brindisi Court approved the seizure of both the vessel and its cargo, which included 33,000 tons of ferrous metal.
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BREAKING: Ukraine holds trilateral talks with US, Russia as Kremlin ties any deal to Donbas capitulation
"The issue of Donbas is key," President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters hours before the talks began.
Inside Trump’s chaotic Ukraine peace process
The Kyiv Independent's Chris York speaks with Adam Entous, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, about his new investigation into the first year of U.S. President Donald Trump administration's peace efforts to end Russia's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine strikes oil depot in Russia's Penza Oblast, other military sites, General Staff confirms
A fire broke out at an oil depot in the Russian city of Penza following a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Jan. 23.
'Without a million Ukrainians, you won't manage" — Zelensky wants Ukraine to form core of envisioned European army
"(Russian) army will number 2.5-3 million. They want to reach all of this by 2030, and, based on their speed, we see that this is possible," Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zelensky optimistic $800 billion US prosperity plan will be signed after Davos delay
Describing the plan, which was first floated in December, as a "bundle of documents," President Volodymyr Zelensky said he expects progress to be made in the future.
Fewer than 20% of Kyiv's apartment buildings remain without heating amid winter crisis, mayor Klitschko says
Kyiv's utilities workers have reconnected 650 high-rise apartment buildings in the past day, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Jan. 23.
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On one of the first days of 2026, the Ukrainian military downed a Russian drone of a new type. It was identified as Geran-5, a fast and long-range drone. It shares the name with the Russian copies of Iranian Shaheds — Geran-1, Geran-2, Geran-3, and Geran-4 — and is made by the same Russian manufacturer and with similar components. But the new drone is quite different from the earlier Geran ones. The Geran-5 drone resembles a winged missile, unlike Russian Shahed-type drones — triangular and d
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