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Atesh says Russian military police and FSB officers conduct daily visits to these residences, and there is constant movement of cases containing cartridges, grenades, and mines.
Russian forces are increasingly using civilian homes in occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia to conceal stocks of ammunition, the Atesh partisan group reported via Telegram on Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Atesh agents said Russian troops have taken over Ukrainian homes in Molochansk, Mykhailivka, and Rozivka, with many buildings now serving as ammunition storage sites.
This attack, one of the largest in military history, struck fuel depots, weapons manufacturers, and key logistical hubs deep inside Russian territory.
On January 14, 2025, Ukraine launched a multi-platform, multi-vector drone operation targeting Russia’s strategic military-industrial infrastructure. This drone attack, one of the largest in military history, struck fuel depots, weapons manufacturers, and key logistical hubs deep inside Russian territory. In this video, we cover:
The case stems from the minister’s recent decision to dismiss Maryna Bezrukova, head of Ukraine’s Defense Procurement Agency under the Ministry of Defense.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has reportedly launched an investigation into Defense Minister Rustem Umerov over alleged abuse of power.
Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Center (CPC) reported the update on Monday, Jan. 27. NABU did not confirm the information.
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U.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday, amid a wider market sell-off. The culprit: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that last week introduced a new — and low-cost — model into the red-hot AI tech market.DeepSeek on Monday morning became the most downloaded free app on Apple’s U.S. app store — ousting OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the process. Shares of Nvidia, the chip company whose AI technology has made it into one of the world’s most valuable companies, dropped more than 13% by late morning on Monday. Rival chip companies, including Arm and Broadcom, also plunged, dragging down the major indexes. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell almost 600 points, or nearly 3%, by late morning. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta and other big tech companies have poured billions of dollars into building up their artificial intelligence capabilities, fueling a Silicon Valley arms race. But now investors are calling these pricey investments into question: DeepSeek says it costs less to train its models, and its open-source AI assistant uses less advanced chips than rivals’ models do - NPR
The European Union renewed on Monday its wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, after Hungary stopped holding up the move in return for a declaration on energy security. “Europe delivers: EU Foreign Ministers just agreed to extend again the sanctions on Russia,” Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, posted on social media. “This will continue to deprive Moscow of revenues to finance its war,” she added. “Russia needs to pay for the damage they are causing.” Officials from other EU countries had warned that failure to roll over the sanctions before a Jan. 31 deadline would have consequences, such as the unfreezing of Russian assets in Europe used to help Kyiv. The sanctions up for renewal include all sector-based bans on trade as well as measures that immobilised Russia’s central bank assets. Legally, the EU’s 27 countries must unanimously vote to renew these restrictions every six months - Reuters
The founders of Ukraine’s leading ride-hailing taxi company are planning to sell up – the new owners will invest to beat their competitors and re-enter new foreign markets.
Ukraine’s leader in the online taxi market, Uklon, is on the verge of being sold to the largest telecom operator in the country, Kyivstar, after years of competing with international players Uber and Bolt, Forbes Ukraine reported.
In December 2024, Kyivstar applied to Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee to acquire the company, according to media sources.
The day after Trump’s Davos address, Russia said it wanted to resume bilateral nuclear disarmament talks “as soon as possible”, and that “the ball is in the Americans’ court”.
China called on Washington and Moscow on Tuesday to “further reduce” their nuclear arsenals as a precondition for its participation in potential disarmament talks called for by US President Donald Trump.
Trump said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week that “we’d like to see denuclearisation”, and reiterated his desire for three-way talks with Russia and China.
The US is suspending its Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program after US President Donald Trump’s border security executive order signed a week prior.
The US is suspending its Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program that allowed displaced Ukrainians to live and work in the US for up to two years with a US-based sponsor.
According to an update by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), it is “pausing acceptance of Form I-134A,” which is the application form for US-based sponsors and the first step in the U4U application process, until the USCIS “[reviews] all categorical parole processes as required by that order.”
The former Fox News host made the allegation on Monday during a wide-ranging interview with Matt Taibbi on the secrets Trump’s release of previously classified documents could reveal.
During an interview with former Rolling Stone journalist now political commentator Matt Taibbi on Monday’s episode of the Tucker Carlson Show they speculated on what secrets would be revealed if US President Donald Trump continued to release previously classified documents, such as those relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Carlson, the former Fox News host, said at one point in Joe Biden’s presidency the US had planned to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin – without producing any evidence of the veracity of his claim.
The Balkan country has been rocked by regular protests in the wake of the deadly disaster at the train station that killed 15 people following extensive renovations at the facility.
Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned on Tuesday, following months of mass demonstrations over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November.
The Balkan country has been rocked by regular protests in the wake of the deadly disaster at the train station in the northern city of Novi Sad that killed 15 people, following extensive renovations at the facility.
OSINT social media is abuzz with images that show Ukrainian using the remote artillery-delivered mines and Russian forces encountering the mines scattered on the battlefield.
Sharp-eyed open-source intelligence social (OSINT) bloggers spotted images posted on Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade social media sites that showed its artillery operators handling M692 155mm area-denial artillery munition (ADAM) carrier projectiles.
Each M692 carries 36 M67 anti-personnel landmines (APL), each round of which can rapidly deliver a 600 square meter (6,500 square feet) minefield out to a range of around 18 kilometers, which can be especially useful in disrupting Russian mass infantry “meat” attacks.
Bond yeilds down, new heights of Eurobond prices and strengthening of the hryvnia. Weekly Insight for Jan. 27
Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) refused to increase interest rates on military bonds, but the key rate hike may force the MoF to revise the decision.
The primary bond market is becoming deeply segmented. Banks maintained their strong preference for four-year notes, which the NBU allowed banks to use to partly cover mandatory reserves. Competition for such bonds remained strong.
Current Kremlin houseguest Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s fourth president, served from 2010 until his ousting in 2014 during the Euromaidan protests that precipitated Putin’s Russo-Ukrainian War.
Early in the morning on Tuesday, Jan. 28, Russian forces carried out a series of drone strikes across multiple regions in Ukraine, targeting and damaging civilian infrastructure.
In the Kyiv region, debris from a downed Russian Shahed-type drone struck a museum housing former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s collection of vintage cars, sparking a fire that engulfed 600 square meters (6,458 square feet).
This case highlights a developing trend where drones are not only used to defeat Russian military personnel but also to encourage their surrender.
The Special Operations Forces (SSO) captured a Russian soldier abandoned by his comrades, using a drone, according to SSO’s report via Telegram on Monday, Jan. 27.
According to the SSO, during aerial reconnaissance, Special Ops operators spotted a Russian soldier in the area. It was discovered that he and another soldier had been wounded a month earlier. However, the Russians left them behind without food, water, or communication devices. The second soldier died from his injuries.
The Sv. Mykolai Children’s Hospital is now ready, once more, to receive its little patients in upgraded conditions, a further demonstration of how charitable sponsorship can alter life for the better
Large-scale renovation and upgrading of the neurosurgical department at the Sv. Mykolai (St. Nicholas) Children’s Hospital, which belongs to the First Medical Union of Lviv, has been completed. This is the only medical facility in western Ukraine that offers pediatric surgical interventions involving the brain and spinal cord.
Russia’s forces have never broken into the Dnipropetrovsk region. But emboldened by months of gradual gains, they are now just some 2.5 miles from its border.
Svitlana Rudokvas once took solace in the fact that fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces was raging at a safe distance in the eastern Donetsk region neighbouring her own.
But now, the Kremlin’s emboldened army has advanced and brought the fight right to the doorstep of her Dnipropetrovsk region, while raining down bombs with greater intensity.
The Institute for the Study of War, citing geolocated evidence, estimates that Russian forces control 89 percent of the settlement.
Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the southern part of Velyka Novosilka, about 85 kilometers (52 miles) west of Donetsk, to avoid encirclement, Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for the “Khortytsia” operational group of troops said during a telethon.
Velyka Novosilka is the last major stronghold of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in southern Donbas. Ukrainian forces recaptured parts of the settlement in the summer of 2023, while Russian forces launched retaliatory assaults in the fall of 2024.
After artillery cluster munitions failed to stop numerous Russian troops attempting to break through Ukraine’s defenses on dirt bikes, the defenders decided to take them on directly with FPV drones.
A video from Ukraine’s 5th Separate Assault Brigade on Monday shows Ukrainian drones flying straight at Russian troops attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses on dirt bikes near Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
In the video, published by the brigade’s press service on Telegram, Ukrainian reconnaissance drones are seen to have spotted four motorcycles manned by Russian troops advancing on their positions.
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At the 80th Holocaust Remembrance, the two leaders discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, while G7 told Kyiv to get its procurement act together.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday reportedly discussed security guarantees and accession to the EU while in Poland to attend Auschwitz commemoration events.
The French and Ukrainian presidents were in the Polish town of Oświęcim, adjacent to the German-named concentration camp, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army.
“Most of the projects have received an order to stop,” a source at the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) mission said.
Numerous Ukraine-based humanitarian projects have had their financing suspended due to the US freeze on foreign aid, several sources told AFP on Monday, prompting alarm in the war-battered country.
Almost three years after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has become extremely dependent on foreign aid for humanitarian work, with the United States providing billions of dollars of that help.
Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense required a tie-breaking vote from his VP, as Senate gets ready to hear from his FBI choice and Kremlin-friendly Tulsi Gabbard this week.
On Monday, the US Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s selection as Secretary of Defense by a vote of 51-50.
The controversial Pete Hegseth’s confirmation required a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, as three Republicans broke ranks and voted against to register a 50-50 tally: Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.