Here is the situation on Saturday, February 1:
Struggle
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The Russian forces have launched missiles in the center of the port of Odesa del Mar Negro de Ukrania, a Unesco World Heritage site, seriously damaging historical buildings and hurting seven people, authorities said. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the attack was “a deliberate strike.”
- Odesa's regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said seven people were injured in the attack and that emergency teams remained on the scene. The lobby of the Bristol hotel, a luxury milestone built at the end of the 19th century, was reduced to the debris, while the concert hall of the Odesa Philharmonic was damaged.
- Firefighters have extinguished a fire that had burned for two days in a Petrochemical plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia attacked by Ukrainian drones, the state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency services.
- Russia states that their forces took the town of Novovasylivka in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine, since it approaches the Critical Logistics Center of Pokrovsk. The claim could not be confirmed independently.
Policy and diplomacy
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also said he believes that maybe they will do something that he described as “significant.” Trump said Washington was having “serious” discussions with Moscow.
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Police in Norway says that they released a russian credit ship ship seized on suspicion of damage to damage to a fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea. They said they found no evidence to link it with alleged acts of sabotage against the western allies of Ukraine.
- Ukraine said he believes that North Korean soldiers fight along with the Russian army in the Kursk front line have “retired” after suffering great losses, a military spokesman told the AFP news agency. It is believed that Pyongyang deployed more than 10,000 soldiers to support the Russian forces fighting Ukraine.
- The Lithuanian president, Gypsy Nausėda, said in an interview with the Associated Press news agency that any peace agreement in Ukraine must involve kyiv. He also urged more defense expenses from regional countries to dissuade the future Russian aggression.
Finance
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The Putin de Russia has authorized the Armenia Balchug Capital Investment Fund of the Goldman Sachs unit in Russia, according to a government decree, which could pave the way for the United States Bank to completely retire from Russia in the middle of the Western sanctions since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.
