Umerov named four priorities of Ukraine’s military strategy for 2025. At the 25th meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format,? Ukraine's military strategy for 2025. The plan is based on four points: stabilizing the front line, strengthening Ukraine's defense capability, strengthening the protection of the sky and sea routes, and an asymmetric response to the aggressor's attempts to achieve an advantage through scale. Ukraine and its allies have moved to a new level of cooperation: in addition to addressing the immediate needs of the war, they will work to build the long-term capabilities of the Armed Forces. More than 600 searches across Ukraine: the police are conducting a special operation to expose schemes for the export of men abroad The National Police has launched a large-scale special operation to expose illegal channels for the export of men liable for military service abroad. Conducted more than 600 simultaneous searches throughout the country. Law enforcement officers are engaged in exposing the organizers and members of groups that help men cross the border bypassing official checkpoints. According to available data, the attackers facilitated the crossing of hundreds of military personnel along these routes.. As part of the first stage of a large-scale special operation to block the channels for the export of Ukrainian men of military age abroad, 45 suspicions were announced against the organizers and participants of illegal schemes. In Kyiv, debris from a Russian drone damaged a high-rise building. On Friday night, Russian drones attacked Kyiv.. In the Solomensky district, a drone hit the technical floor of a 16-story residential building. The fire was avoided. A car was damaged in the courtyard of a high-rise building. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties. The SBU and the Navy hit a warehouse with reconnaissance drones in the Rostov region. The Security Service of Ukraine and the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit a warehouse storing Russian reconnaissance drones in the Rostov region.. Special service drones “overloaded” Russian air defense, and then Neptune flew to the site. After this, numerous explosions were heard, indicating a secondary detonation of ammunition. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the command post of the Russian Army in Svetlodarsk The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a high-precision strike on the command post of the army corps of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the occupied city of Svetlodarsk, Donetsk region. Trump said that a meeting with Putin is already being organized Newly elected US President Donald Trump said that his meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is being prepared, but did not give specific dates. Trump's remarks came during a speech to Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.. He emphasized that Putin spoke about the desire to meet publicly. Ukraine received the first 3 billion euros from the EU at the expense of Russia's frozen assets. The state budget of Ukraine received 3 billion euros from the European Union as part of the Emergency Loan initiative to support Ukraine, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said.. This is the first tranche of funds from the European Union secured by income from Russian frozen assets. Ukraine will use this resource for priority budget expenditures. Britain, at the same time as the United States, hit Russia's largest oil companies with sanctions. US authorities announced new large-scale sanctions against the Russian oil sector.. In total, the restrictions cover more than 400 individuals and organizations in the Russian energy sector, directly or indirectly providing funding for the Kremlin’s military machine. Thus, the sanctions included the largest players in the Russian oil and gas industry, including Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, their subsidiaries, as well as two active terminals for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) - Portovaya and Cryogas Vysotsk. The UK introduced sanctions against Russian companies Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz for the first time. As noted by the British government, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz produce more than 1 million barrels of oil daily, which is approximately $23 billion per year.. That's more than Jamaica's GDP. Japan has tightened sanctions against Russia The Japanese government has announced additional sanctions against several dozen individuals and legal entities due to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In addition, as of January 23, Japan will ban the export of 335 more products to Russia, including small motorcycles and components for special vehicles such as cranes.. Shmygal announced additional reservations for critical workers The Cabinet of Ministers decided to provide reservations from mobilization to workers in the gas industry of Ukraine. In addition, repair teams of regional gas companies will be booked beyond the norm.. The Ministry of Justice has resumed the work of all main services of the Unified State Register The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has resumed the work of all main services of the Unified State Register portal after a large-scale Russian cyber-attack, which occurred at the end of December 2024. In particular, the following services are again available on the portal: free search for information in the registry, formation of lifts, obtaining results of administrative services by access code, access of government bodies to information from the registry through access identifiers. The top 10 best artists of the 21st century are topped by Taylor Swift. American singer Taylor Swift became the No. 1 artist in Billboard's list for the first 25 years of the 21st century.. She topped Billboard's Top Artists of the 21st Century chart, based on the Billboard 200 album chart and the Billboard Hot 100 song chart from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2024.. Swift has topped the annual Billboard Top Artists charts in 2009, 2015, 2023 and 2024, becoming the first female artist with four annual titles (since the category's inception in 1981).. Porn Star Bribery Case. Trump was given “unconditional release” A US court decided to replace the sentence of President-elect Donald Trump with “unconditional release” in a case related to concealing payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Before the decision was announced, Trump reiterated that he was “completely innocent” and “did nothing wrong.”. The case concerns money that, according to investigators, Trump in 2016, because of his lawyer Michael Cohen, paid porn star Stormy Daniels allegedly for silence about their long-standing relationship. Ukraine has given the first permits for the exhumation of victims of the Volyn tragedy Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Ukraine has allowed the first exhumations of Polish victims of the Volyn tragedy. In the message, Tusk calls the victims of the Volyn tragedy " Tusk thanked the ministers of culture of Poland and Ukraine for “fruitful cooperation”. The world experienced its first year with temperatures 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels In 2024, average global temperatures for the first time exceeded the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C set by the Paris Climate Agreement as critical for the stability of the planet. Carbon dioxide concentrations in 2024 were 2.9 ppm higher than in 2023, and methane concentrations were 3 ppm higher. 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