Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began his visit to Kyiv on Monday morning, according to an official statement.
Ukraine this Monday claimed to have shot down eight Iranian-made drones launched by Russia over its territory overnight.
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Unity Day in Ukraine
“Only strong Ukrainians can be united. And only united Ukrainians can be strong,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message published on X on the occasion of Unity Day. Every January 22, the country celebrates the signing of an agreement between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1919 at Hagia Sophia Square in Kyiv. The unification is noted for 24 years on the calendar of official commemorations.
Donald Tusk in Kiev
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began his visit to Kiev, Ukraine on Monday morning, his press service announced.
“On January 22, Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited Kyiv. The Polish head of government will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denis Chmygal,” according to an official statement.
Russian drones
Ukraine today claimed to have shot down eight Iranian-made drones launched by Russia over its territory overnight. “The enemy attacked with eight Shahed-136/131 type drones,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement, adding that they were launched from the Russian region of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov. .
He added that the drones were shot down by defense systems in some areas of southern and central Ukraine. At this stage no damage was caused by falling debris.
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A bomb blast in the Russian-held eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday killed at least 27 people, including several victims, local authorities said were set off by Moscow. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of escalating strikes on residential areas over the past two months, while the front line has remained largely static.
In Donetsk, local pro-Russian authorities accused the Ukrainian military of bombing a peripheral neighborhood in the southwest of the city, where the market is located, less than 15 km from the front. “27 civilians were killed and 25 others sustained injuries of varying severity, including two teenagers”Moscow, said Denis Pouchiline, regional manager of the establishment.
Kiev, for its part, reported Russian bombing that killed at least two people in Ukrainian-controlled villages west of Donetsk on Sunday.
The results of the bombing in Donetsk are among the worst since the beginning of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.
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