Ukraine has appointed a new supervisory board to oversee the state-owned natural gas monopoly Naftogaz, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on January 24.
President Vladimir Putin said on January 24 that there were shortages of some medicines in Russia and that prices had gone up, despite the country producing more of its own drugs.
The former director of the Red Torch Theater in Novosibirsk, Aleksandr Kulyabin, whose son fled Russia last year after he protested against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has been detained on embezzlement charges.
Poland has officially requested permission from Germany to transfer its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on January 24.
Defense Minister Anatolie Nosatii has confirmed that Moldova has asked its Western partners for air-defense systems, in a move that signals a departure from the country's policy of not seeking to purchase lethal weapons from the West.