No breakthrough is reported at the first three-way talks but reports suggest they will resume next month.

Russia’s leadership is trying to push U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon the negotiation process with Ukraine and Europe and make concessions to Moscow’s demands put forward at the August 2025 summit in Anchorage, Alaska.

Russia has stepped up the activities of so-called “Russian Houses” in African countries, using them not only as centers for promoting Russian influence under the guise of cultural diplomacy, but also as hubs for recruiting mercenaries to fight against Ukraine.

It comes as tensions appear to have escalated between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The names of 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were on board the Il-76 aircraft that crashed in Russia’s Belgorod region on January 24, 2024, will be entered into the Book of Memory.

In Kyiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), acting on government instructions, has prepared 41 mobile kitchens to provide hot meals to residents of buildings without gas supply.

A total of 119 combat clashes were recorded along the frontline, with the enemy carrying out 42 attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Pokrovsk sector.

The US president’s praise follows his claim that allied forces avoided the front lines during the Afghanistan conflict.

As a result of a nighttime attack, more than 3,200 high-rise apartment buildings in Kyiv have been left without heating. More than 160 repair crews are working around the clock at the affected sites, including teams brought in from other regions.

Ongoing Russian attacks are preventing the stabilization of Ukraine’s power supply, as the energy system does not have enough time to recover.