Speaking at the interview, President Andrzej Duda said that Ukraine, with Western support, must resist Russian occupation and imperialism but added that it is "hard to answer" whether Kyiv will be able to liberate the occupied peninsula.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that over the next six years, Ukraine's illegally occupied regions "must reach the all-Russia level" by developing in certain "key areas."
Journalist Armin Coerper from the German public broadcaster ZDF, who heads the channel's Moscow bureau, has filmed a story that distorts the picture of life in Russian-occupied Mariupol. Source: European Pravda, citing ZDF's story The journalist tried to create the impression that the majority of the residents in the city, which has been under Russian occupation for almost two years, are pro-Russian.
A visit by the German ZDF TV channel's correspondent to Russian-occupied Mariupol without Kyiv's consent violated Ukrainian law, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko said on Feb. 2.
The staff at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya has shrunk from around 11,500 to 4,500 under Russian occupation, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said on Thursday ahead of his trip to Ukraine. Grossi plans to visit the power plant near the front line in Ukraine again next week. The low staffing levels will be a central topic in his talks with the Russian operators of the nuclear power plant, Grossi announced in Vienna. "It is of crucial imp