In 2025, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense put into service more than 1,300 new types of domestically produced weapons and military equipment, a quarter more than in 2024.

The border areas of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions are currently experiencing the most intense shelling by Russian forces.

President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a series of decrees on appointments within the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and changes to the composition of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

The prospects for Cuba - a close ally of Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela - are now bleak, writes the BBC’s Will Grant.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will take part  in a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing on Tuesday, which will be held in the French capital.

Over the course of January 5, 172 combat engagements took place on the front line between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders. The Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors remain most active.

The damage to a civilian sunflower oil production plant in Dnipro, owned by the well-known American company Bunge, was the result of a deliberate Russian strike.

Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka met with Ukraine’s ambassador to Prague, Vasyl Zvarych, and announced plans to hold a phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha.

In Kherson region, a Russian drone strike killed the rector of the Intercession Church in the village of Orlove, Archpriest Heorhii Horbenko.

The BBC’s Madeline Halpert was inside the room as the former Venezuelan president addressed the judge.