President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the issue of broadening the tank coalition, unblocking the transfer of qualitatively new types of weapons, and further Euro-Atlantic integration with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
On Wednesday, January 25, Russian troops launched a massive attack on the town of Beryslav, Kherson region, hitting a grocery store. Civilians were killed and injured.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has declared the international case "Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia" partly admissible for consideration.
A Leopard tank coalition has worked just 120 hours after the eighth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group took place in Ramstein, Germany, on January 20.
Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said on Wednesday that Madrid was open to providing Ukraine with German-made Leopard 2 tanks, after Germany agreed to send the tanks and allowed NATO allies to do the same.
The majority of Ukrainian citizens (58.9% of respondents) believe that events in Ukraine are developing in the right direction, according to a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center and the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz received confirmation of Germany's decision to start supplying Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks.
More than 700 residents of temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, are held captive. Dozens of them have been in captivity for almost a year.