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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy directed Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (DIU) to share details about the Azerbaijan Airways airplane crash with its companions and referred to as for placing strain on Russia to cease mendacity about this.

Supply: Volodymyr Zelenskyy's night tackle

Quote from Zelenskyy: "I’ve little doubt that the complete reality concerning the crash of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane could be established and that Russia won’t reach concealing something. Now there are already companions concerned, who could be trusted, to begin with, by Azerbaijan itself.

Ukraine will present all the mandatory help, and we name on each nation to assist Azerbaijan on this scenario. And we name on each nation to place strain on Russia to cease the lies about this crash – the identical lies as had been advised about MH-17, concerning the Boeing shot down over the Donetsk area.

In our dialog with President Aliyev, we acknowledged the heroism of the crew, who managed to steer the airplane onto Kazakhstan territory, saving 29 folks. However tragically, there have been many fatalities, and for all this, the accountability should be borne – the accountability of those that hit the airplane, and people in Russia who made all this attainable: that the airplane was focused.

As we speak I obtained an intelligence report on what occurred and the info we presently have. I instructed that each one info be shared with our companions."

Beforehand: On 28 December, Zelenskyy had a phone dialog with Azerbaijani chief Ilham Aliyev, throughout which they mentioned the crash of an Embraer airplane operated by Azerbaijan Airways.

Background:

• On 25 December, an Embraer plane of Azerbaijan Airways en route from Baku to Grozny crashed close to Aktau, the executive centre of Kazakhstan's Mangistau Oblast. The crash killed 38 folks.
• Azerbaijan Airways stated that the crash on 25 December was attributable to "bodily and technical exterior affect".
• Rashad Nabiyev, Minister of Digital Improvement and Transportation of Azerbaijan, stated that eyewitness accounts and holes within the fuselage of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane that crashed in Kazakhstan point out exterior affect.
• In flip, the USA noticed indicators of Russian air defence involvement within the crash of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane.
• Throughout a phone dialog with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian chief Vladimir Putin apologised for the "tragic incident" involving an Azerbaijan Airways airplane that occurred in Russian airspace.

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Telegram channels of Russian state media have turn into inaccessible in European international locations attributable to violations of native legal guidelines. The blocking affected RIA Novosti, RT, Rossiya 1 and different channels in seven European international locations.

Russians complain that Telegram channels of Russian propaganda have begun to be blocked in Europe, UNN studies , citing the Russian media.

Particulars

Telegram channels of RIA Novosti, Izvestia, RT, Rossiya 1, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Channel One and NTV are blocked in Europe

Specifically, it’s reported that the RIA Novosti Telegram channel isn’t obtainable within the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, the Czech Republic and Italy.

When making an attempt to view the channel's supplies, a message seems stating that it violates native regulation.

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Earlier, UNN wrote that Telegram mentioned that this 12 months it had deleted greater than 15 million teams and channels with dangerous content material.

Ukraine's International Ministry has responded to an announcement by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, which included threats to close off electrical provide to Ukraine attributable to Kyiv's refusal to proceed transiting Russian gasoline after 2024.

Supply: Ukraine's International Ministry in an announcement, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Particularly, the International Ministry burdened that Ukraine pays Slovakia "some huge cash" for electrical energy provides.

The International Ministry emphasised that Ukraine is compelled to import electrical energy because of the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant and fixed and focused missile assaults on civilian infrastructure, the facility grid, technology amenities and distribution networks.

As well as, the International Ministry added, by threatening to chop off electrical energy provide to Ukraine, Fico "really takes sides with the Russian dictator" Vladimir Putin.

"At the moment, these two are the one figures on this planet who threaten to depart Ukrainians with out electrical energy throughout winter," the assertion mentioned.

The Ukrainian Ministry of International Affairs said that Robert Fico's admission of wishing to take away American and different vitality suppliers from the European market so as to preserve European international locations depending on Russia is proof of his collaboration with Putin.

As well as, the ministry emphasised that Slovakia is a member of the only European vitality market and should observe widespread European legal guidelines.

"We name on the European Fee, in cooperation with ENTSO-E, to reply to Slovak threats of arbitrary selections," the International Ministry concluded.

Background:

• Fico criticised the Ukrainian authorities for refusing to proceed the transit of Russian gasoline after 2024 and promised to think about retaliatory measures.
• Amongst such measures, the Slovak prime minister talked about the potential of chopping off electrical energy provides to Ukraine.
• Slovakia has repeatedly tried to increase the settlement between Ukraine and Russia on the transit of Russian gasoline, which expires in 2024.
• Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine was not contemplating renewing the settlement with Gazprom on the transit of Russian gasoline to Europe and made it clear that Kyiv wouldn’t comply with pump Russian gasoline beneath the guise of Azerbaijani gasoline.
• Towards this backdrop, Fico paid a controversial go to to Russia, the place he met with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin.

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Through the cellphone dialog, Putin apologized to the Azerbaijani president for the crash of the Azal aircraft close to Aktau. The aircraft was making an attempt to land in Grozny when it was attacked by Ukrainian drones.

The Kremlin has reported that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had a phone dialog with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the Kremlin stated. The events mentioned points associated to the crash of the Azal airline aircraft on December 25 close to Aktau, UNN reviews , citing the Russian media.

Particulars

In keeping with the knowledge, Vladimir Putin apologized to Ilham Aliyev for the crash of the Azerbaijani aircraft in Russian airspace.

As well as, it was famous within the dialog that an Azerbaijani passenger aircraft, which was shifting strictly in response to the schedule, repeatedly tried to land on the airport in Grozny. Presently, Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz have been attacked by fight unmanned aerial autos, and Russian air protection methods "repelled these assaults".

Recall

Earlier UNN wrote that in response to Flightradar24, the Azerbaijan Airways aircraft was flying over the world the place drones have been being shot at earlier than the crash. The misery sign was despatched between 8:23 and eight:25 when the aircraft was over Grozny.