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Ukraine struck a key Russian oil facility with drones on Monday, officials said, just hours after Hungary vetoed a fresh package of European sanctions against Moscow.
The SBU said that the station, in a currently unknown location, was a key facility for the Druzhba pipeline which supplies oil to eastern Europe.
Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia via Druzhba have been severed since 27 January, when Kyiv said a Russian drone hit pipeline equipment in Ukraine. Slovakia and Hungary say Ukraine is to blame for the prolonged outage.
Hungary has sought to block a new €90bn loan for Ukraine, sparking fury in European capitals. In a letter, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told European Council chief Antonio Costa the Druzhba outage was an “unprovoked act of hostility that undermines the energy security of Hungary” and vowed to block the loan until it was solved.
Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said he was “shocked” by the Hungarian decision, saying: “I would have expected a much greater feeling of solidarity from Hungary for Ukraine and instead… the ruling party created a climate of hostility towards the victim of aggression.”
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has controversially ruled that Russian and Belarusian athletes can compete under their national flags and anthems at the upcoming Winter Paralympics, its president Andrew Parsons confirmed on Monday.
This decision, allocating 10 combined slots to the nations, has ignited a political storm amid ongoing tensions stemming from Russia’s four-year invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking at a press conference in Milan, Mr Parsons stated the ruling “cannot be overturned by the board or by myself.”
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Volodymyr Zelensky has responded to criticisms by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Kyiv’s ambassador to the UK and the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
Mr Zaluzhnyi has been widely seen as the top political rival to the Ukrainian president ever since he was ousted as the head of Ukraine’s army in 2024.
Last week, he revealed a deep right between himself and the president during his time in the army, including significant disagreements over Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive.
Speaking of Mr Zaluzhnyi’s comments, Mr Zelensky said: “Probably we all had the same emotion: isn’t it too early for all this… I simply believe that discussing the details Valerii Fedorovych [Zaluzhnyi] spoke about is also not good today.
“Because no one gains anything from this. After all, we’re talking about our armed forces… They’re fighting today. And he won’t look good, so to speak, if he talks about this and continues [to do so]. Well, he said what he said, and that’s about it.”
Ukraine struck a key Russian oil facility with drones on Monday, Kyiv’s military intelligence said.
Officials said the station was a key facility for the Druzhba oil pipeline which supplies Russian oil to eastern Europe, according to the SBU.
Ukrainian drones have struck an oil pumping station in Russia’s Tatarstan region, more than 750 miles from the border, an official from Ukraine’s security service said.
The station is an important facility for the Druzhba oil pipeline, which supplies Russian oil to eastern Europe, the official said, adding that the attack caused a fire.
Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to continue helping with the release of Belarusian political prisoners, having already received prisoners released in a US-brokered exchange on its territory.
“We are ready to continue this and will provide Belarusian prisoners any assistance that is within our power. But freeing people from prisons is very difficult,” he wrote on social media.
Another round of peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine could come as soon as this week, Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said today.
“I think at the end of the week, this week,” Kyrylo Budanov told Novyny.Live when asked about the next round of talks.
Moscow is ready to offer Serbia a nuclear power plant project based on Russian technology, as part of an international consortium, the head of the nuclear state corporation Rosatom was quoted as saying by the RIA state news agency on Monday.
Icould hear the takeoff detonation being filmed live and broadcast around the world in my earpiece along with my TV colleague’s on the ground report of the Russian attack – on the morning Vladimir Putin ordered a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Standing in the pre-dawn freeze on a terrace overlooking Kharkiv’s Freedom Square four years ago, it took less than a minute before I was reporting on those rockets when they exploded on impact.
The skyline bulged orange, then came the concussive thump, then the cracks of the rockets exploding. They’d been fired from Russia into Ukraine’s second biggest city.
Our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes:
A “massive” Ukrainian missile attack inflicted serious damage on energy infrastructure and disrupted supplies of power, heat and water in Russia’s Belgorod region, officials said.
“There has been, as a result, serious damage to energy infrastructure,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. “In residences, there are interruptions in supplies of electricity, water and heat.”
Gladkov described the attack as “massive”, affecting both the city of Belgorod, 25 miles from the border, and the surrounding area.
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