Ukraine's military said early on January 2 that Russian forces launched 44 drone attacks against Ukrainian targets but that all of them were successfully shot down, while officials in Kyiv said 20 incoming targets were shot down over the capital overnight.
Officials in an eastern Kazakh region say gas exports to China from the area's only natural-gas producing facility were halted on January 1 amid an expiring deal and local complaints that some villages were without gas while its fuel was being sent abroad to China.
Gazprom said in a statement that exports outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) totaled 100.9 billion cubic meters compared to 185.1 billion in 2021.