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(L-R) German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin talk ahead the opening of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Jan. 9, 2025.

Russia said on Monday its forces had captured the "important logistics hub" of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine in what would be a key advance after months of steady gains in the area.

(FILES) This photograph taken on May 21, 2014, shows a view of pipelines at the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske underground gas storage facility, the largest in Europe, not far from the village of Bilche village, in the Lviv region of western Ukraine.

Gas supplies in Europe were stable with the exception of Moldova, the EU said on Jan. 2, a day after Russian gas transit via Ukraine stopped.

Türkiye may emerge as a reliable natural gas supplier to Europe in light of the latest events, according to energy experts.

This week, Ukraine halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday hailed the end of Russian gas transit across his country as a significant "defeat" for Moscow amid its near three-year invasion.

Flows of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday morning after Zelensky refused to prolong decades of cooperation that had earned billions of dollars for both Moscow and Kiev.

Russia's gas transit to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday, Moscow and Kiev said, ending a decades-long arrangement and marking the latest casualty of the war between the neighbours.

Local residents take shelter in a metro station during an air strike alarm in Kiev on Dec. 31, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.

Russia and Ukraine on Dec. 30 swapped 300 prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.

A statement by the ministry said that 150 Russian servicemen have been returned by Kiev, and all of them are being provided with psychological and medical assistance in neighboring Belarus.

Ukraine’s Special Forces have released excerpts from a diary they claim belonged to a North Korean soldier killed during fighting in Kursk region of Russia.

Russia is against the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.