The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to halt enemy advances and currently control the northern part of Pokrovsk, while in Myrnohrad Ukrainian troops are conducting active defense operations.

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Russian forces attacked a port in the Odesa region with drones, damaging an empty oil storage tank.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that another massive Russian strike could occur overnight and urged citizens to stay alert to air raid warnings.

Efforts are continuing to restore services in Dnipropetrovsk, officials say, after wide-spread attacks in the southeast.

Michel Nkuka Mboladinga stood motionless throughout DR Congo’s Afcon matches in tribute to Patrice Lumumba.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nearly 250,000 residents remain without heating and around 20,000 without water following a Russian attack on the region’s energy infrastructure in the evening of January 7.

The US president says only time would tell how long his administration will be involved in the running of the country.

Ten people have been reported wounded as a result of a Russian Iskander missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

Only sustained political and economic pressure by the United States on Russia can help establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.