British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he can count on Britain for support in the long run following recent drone attacks, Sunak's office said on January 3.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has formally asked the second-largest political party in parliament to form a government in a bid to avoid a fifth general election in two years.
The Ukrainian Army and a growing number of posts on pro-Russian social media have suggested that hundreds of recently mobilized Russian troops died in a New Year's attack on a makeshift barracks in a suburb of the occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
A Ukrainian strike on a Russian military facility in the occupied eastern town of Makiyivka killed 63 troops being housed there, Russia’s defence ministry said, making it one of the deadliest losses acknowledged by Moscow.
Over the past day on Thursday, December 22, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the area of 19 settlements in Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Ukrainian units of aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 18 enemy targets, the General Staff said on Friday.