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3:33 p.m. : Andrew Begshaw, also of New Zealand nationality, worked with the NGO Kiwi KARE. Its manager, Tenby Powell, said he was in close contact with the volunteer’s parents. “We have not given up hope of finding him”, he says to Radio New Zealand (in English). “His family is very worried and upset” by the disappearance of the young man, aged 28.
3:31 p.m. : Two British humanitarian volunteers aged 28 and 48 have been missing since Saturday near Soledar, announces the Ukrainian national police. Located near Bakhmout, on the front line, this locality is the scene of very violent clashes. “Andrew Begshaw and Christopher Perry reportedly left Kramatorsk for Soledar on January 6 at 8 a.m. and communication with them was lost”precise the press release. An investigation is underway to locate them.
3:21 p.m. : The relatives of these released detainees have all the documents to prove it, adds Eva Merkacheva. The presidential decrees granting this pardon, on the other hand, will remain secret. Several media managed to establish, in part, the identity of these twenty combatants. Among them are at least two people convicted of murder, according to the Russian version of the BBC and agentsvo.
3:17 p.m. : Beginning of January, the Wagner group claimed to have released a group of fighters recruited in prison from their obligations, after the end of their six-month contract in Ukraine. The leader of the paramilitary group, Evguéni Prigojine, then explained that their criminal record had been erased. This pardon was granted even before their release from prison, the agency told RIA Novosti Eva Merkacheva, member of the Human Rights Council attached to the presidency.
2:04 p.m. : Pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine claim to have taken control of a village, Bakhmutské, located near the town of Bakhmout, the current epicenter of fighting that Moscow forces have been trying to conquer for several months. A claim that could not be independently verified.
12:06 : Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, denies on Telegram (content in Russian) rumors about a new wave of mobilization. “There is no need to attach such importance” to rumours. Information on mobilization cannot come from “only official power headed by the President of the Russian Federation”, he says.
10:38 : Falling temperatures have direct consequences on electricity consumption in Ukraine. The national operator Ukrenergo announces that the network is not able to fully cover consumption. Restrictions are again introduced in the country, in order to avoid emergency cuts. The situation is particularly difficult in the eastern and southern regions, which are on the front line of the fighting.
10:32 : Ukraine accuses the Russian army of carrying out a missile strike on the market in the village of Shevchenkove, in the Kharkhiv region. There are at least seven injured, including a 13-year-old girl, writes Governor Oleg Sinegoubov. It is possible that people are still under the rubble, said presidential adviser Kirilo Tymoshenko, and the emergency services are at work.
(OLEG SINEGUBOV / TELEGRAM)
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11:11 a.m. : Hostilities resumed yesterday in the country after the truce of Orthodox Christmas decreed without convincing by Vladimir Putin. In the Sumy region alone, in northeastern Ukraine, the local administration reported in the early evening of more than a hundred bombardments and strikes. Here’s what to remember from Sunday.