Ukrainian emergency services extinguished a fire on a Turkish-owned civilian vessel after a Russian attack that damaged three Turkish-owned ships in southern Ukrainian ports
According to reports, the vessel crew suffered no casualties and the damage was minimal.
The attack on Friday, 12 December, also damaged two other Turkish-owned vessels in the ports of Chornomorsk and Odesa, including one carrying food supplies. The attacks came hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Vladimir Putin met at a forum in Ashgabat
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strike as “without military purpose” and part of a campaign to disrupt normal life, calling on the world to maintain the “proper moral compass” in responding to Russia’s actions.
The incident highlights escalating Black Sea tensions following Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers, which Moscow claims fund its war. Russia’s Defence Ministry has not commented.
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Russian airstrikes have devasted apartment buildings in a residential area of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, injuring at least 25 people according to the local governor.
Russian athletes will not be allowed to represent their country at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry said in an interview with an Italian newspaper.
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Several locally-developed instant messaging applications were reportedly restored in Iran on Tuesday (20 January), partially easing communications restrictions imposed after recent unrest.
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Kazakhstan has yet to receive results from two foreign laboratories examining evidence linked to the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft near Aktau, delaying the publication of the final investigation report, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow could pay $1 billion from Russian assets frozen abroad to secure permanent membership in Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Board of Peace’.
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