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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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A million-dollar parking fee: Canada's high-stakes battle over a stranded Russian plane
In a potentially world's most expensive parking ticket, a Russian-registered Antonov An-124 has remained locked in a frozen embrace with the tarmac at Toronto Pearson Airport. Stranded for almost four years, the aircraft has racked up over $1.5 million Canadian dollars ($1.1 million) in parking fees. Parked so long, in fact, that it has found its way onto the infrequently updated satellite views of the airport in both Apple Maps and Google Maps. But for an international community that just wat
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.
Ukraine calendar: What will happen this week
Editor's note: This article is a shortened on-site version of KI Insights' public newsletter, The Week Ahead, covering events from January 26 - February 1. Sign up here to start your week with an agenda of Ukraine-related events delivered directly to your inbox every week. In the coming days, international attention will be focused on the trilateral meeting involving Ukraine, the United States, and Russia, scheduled for January 23–24. These will be the first talks in a trilateral format since t
EU plan envisages Ukraine's accession by 2027, up to $1.6 trillion in funding for Kyiv, Orban claims
Orban cited a confidential document on Ukraine's accession allegedly presented at an EU summit in Brussels on the previous day.
Mass attack that plunged Kyiv into darkness cost Russia over $130 million, Ukrainian intelligence says
Kyiv, home to more than 3 million people, is still reeling from the Jan. 20 attack in which Russia launched 33 missiles and 339 drones against Ukraine.
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.
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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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