Summary
Here the latest developments of the Russia-Ukraine war at a glance:
Russian forces have gained full control of Maryinka, a town in eastern Ukraine, news agencies cited the Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, as saying on Monday.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been located at a penal colony in the Arctic Yamal-Nenets region of northern Russia, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh has confirmed.
Russia launched 31 drones and two missiles at Ukraine overnight, mostly targeting the south of the country, with air defences destroying 28 drones and both missiles, the Ukrainian military reported on Monday.
Russia on Monday accused Western countries of stirring up tensions in Moscow-friendly Serbia, which has been rocked by protests over alleged fraud in elections held on 17 December.
Russia said on Monday that emergency workers had put out a fire on a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship and the state company which runs the vessel said there had been no casualties and no threat to the security of the reactor.
Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said five Russian UAVs over the region were “destroyed” by Ukrainian forces late yesterday evening.
The members of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union have signed a free trade agreement with Iran, Russian news agency Tass has reported.
Ukraine said on Monday it had shot down 28 Russian drones out of 31 launched from the annexed Crimea peninsula.
The Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, will pay a two-day visit to Russia, after skipping a summit in Kyrgyzstan Putin attended in October.
Russian attacks on southern Ukraine’s Kherson region killed five civilians on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said.
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Russian forces have gained full control of Maryinka, a town in eastern Ukraine, news agencies cited the Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, as saying on Monday.
Most accounts of Maryinka, south-west of the Russian-held regional centre of Donetsk, describe it as a ghost town after once being home to 10,000 people, Reuters reports.
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