Powerful blasts were heard in Ukraine’s capital this morning, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported via Telegram. “The services are still working in the affected areas,” Klitschko wrote, adding that detailed information will be announced later on.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured around 20% of the territory they lost in the city of Sievierodonetsk during fighting with Russia, the head of the eastern region of Luhansk Serhiy Gaidai announced. Russian forces are blowing up bridges across the Seversky Donets river to prevent Ukraine bringing in military reinforcements and delivering aid to civilians in the town of Sievierodonetsk, the governor of the Luhansk region said.
In the neighboring Donetsk region, Russian troops were only 15 km away from the city of Slovyansk, warned regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. Donetsk will not fall quickly but needs more weapons to keep the attackers at bay, Kyrylenko said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian artillery hit an early 17th century Ukrainian Orthodox monastery near the town of Svyatohirsk. Some 300 civilians, including 60 children, were hiding there, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kiev has demanded that the Russian blockade of Black Sea ports be lifted so Ukraine could export the 20 million tons of grain, which are stuck in silos. This would allow the new crop to be stored in the emptied silos. Vladimir Putin replied that grain exports from Ukraine were not a problem and the Russian-controlled ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk could be used for this purpose. "We guarantee that this will be done safely and we will allow foreign vessels to reach them," he added.On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range between minus 5° C. and zero, lower in the Northeastern parts of the country where they will drop down to minus 7° C., for Sofia around minus 1° C. During the day the weather will be predominantly cloudy..
The magazine of the Bulgarian news agency BTA called LIK dedicates its February issue to the Bulgarian National Radio. The magazine was presented today in the marble lobby of the BNR building. The BNR marked its 90 th anniversary on 25 January..
An analysis of the state and preparedness of the armed forces in 2024 was presented during the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. In their statements at the event, both President Rumen Radev and Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
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