On the night of January 3, Russian troops shelled the town of Druzhkovka, 80 kilometers from occupied Donetsk. Two people were injured, said the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko. The village of Yakovlevka was also hit. In Druzhkovka, was destroyed the Altair ice arena, which had been the home arena for the hockey club since 2014, by the blow. Presumably, the moment of the impact was broadcast on a French TV channel.

3,825 people have died in Syria due to the war in 2022, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has calculated. 1,627 of them were civilians, including 321 children. 18 civilians died under Russian shelling. Another 107 died due to shelling by the Russian-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad, and 100 due to torture. At the same time, losses this year are the smallest since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011.

Employees of the Wildberries marketplace were able to achieve a reduction in working hours on December 31. According to the employees' union, management made concessions and did not extend the working day from 19 to 22 hours at the last moment, as was the case in 2021. In addition, the Wildberries trade union. Truth of Employees” reported that they received messages in the bot from people who were not afraid to leave work at 18:00.

83% of women of reproductive age in Latin America and the Caribbean live in places where access to abortion is limited. This was reported by openDemocracy with reference to data from the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). Abortion rights in Latin America According to openDemocracy, abortion is completely prohibited in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Suriname.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces planted the flag of Ukraine on the Big Potemkin Island on the Dnieper, less than four kilometers from Kherson. The island is located at a strategically important point for controlling the mouth of the Dnieper. Bolshoi Potemkinsky Island Map: DOXA A video of a Ukrainian military man planting a flag on the island was published by MP from the European Solidarity faction Alexey Goncharenko on January 2.

They want to re-elect a preventive measure for Northern Federal University student Olesya Krivtsova because she allegedly bought air tickets in her name. The telegram channel “Freedom for Olesya Krivtsova” reports that neither Olesya, nor her mother, nor other relatives bought tickets. The authors of the telegram channel supporting Olesya believe that she could have been framed. Previously, the prosecutor of the case demanded that she be sent to a pre-trial detention center.

The UK will recognize Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group in the coming weeks, The Telegraph claims. This decision was made due to the threat to British citizens posed by the IRGC, the publication claims. It quotes the head of the country's security service, Ken McCallum, who in November revealed that the IRGC was preparing the kidnappings and murders of at least ten British citizens and residents.