The Dutch authorities have issued a TV broadcast license to the independent Russian news outlet TV Rain, which had its Latvian license revoked in December. According to the website of the Netherlands’ national media regulator, the decision to allow TV Rain to broadcast in the country was made on December 22, though the first reports of the news in the Dutch media appeared on January 9. TV Rain has not commented on the decision.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in a video message, following the results of the 320th day of the war, called the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions the “hottest” at the front. The battle for the Donbass continues. And although the invaders have now concentrated their greatest efforts on Soledar, it is still the result of this difficult and long battle will be the liberation of our entire Donbass. I thank all our warriors who protect our Bakhmut and show maximum resistance!

The anti-war Russians who have made Latin America their new home Gustavo Garello / Getty Images Buenos Aires Story by Meduza . Abridged translation by Carol Matlack . After Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, Russians who opposed the war started leaving the country en masse. Then, when Vladimir Putin announced mobilization seven months later, emigration spiked again as potential conscripts scrambled to avoid being sent into battle.

The Dutch media regulator has granted Dozhd TV a permit for commercial television broadcasting. The regulator's website reports that the decision was made on December 22, 2022. The media only paid attention to this now after Artem Konokhov, a correspondent for Latvian Radio in Brussels , reported on it. Dozhd has not yet commented on this. Update. The channel has confirmed that it has received a European broadcasting license in the Netherlands. Dozhd will move its editorial center to Amsterdam.

According to the latest data, at least 15 people were injured due to a missile attack on the city of Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region. this in a telegram The head of the Nikolaev regional military administration Vitaly Kim announced . According to him, among the victims was a two-year-old child. More than 100 houses were damaged due to the strike on Ochakovo, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine.

Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar reports that the Wagner Group’s armed formations began a “powerful assault” of Ukrainian positions in Soledar, a city in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region. According to the Ukrainian official, after an “unsuccessful attempt” to capture Soledar followed by a retreat, the Russian forces regrouped, replenished their losses, and sent additional assault troops into the area, also changing their tactics.

Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar said that Wagner PMC fighters launched a “powerful assault” on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Soledar, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region. According to Malyar, after the “unsuccessful attempt” to capture Soledar and the subsequent retreat, the Russian forces regrouped, restored losses, deployed additional assault detachments to the city area and changed tactics.

Not even Russian pro-war Telegram channels believe Moscow’s claims about its attack on Kramatorsk Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A building damaged by Russia’s missile attack on Kramatorsk Early on January 8, hours after Moscow’s Orthodox Christmas “ ceasefire ” ended, the Russian military launched seven missile strikes on the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, damaging at least two buildings.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia has proposed to the government of the country to suspend the law "On repatriation", reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Delfi A law passed in 1995 allows people whose ancestors were ethnic Latvians or Livs to move to Latvia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that if earlier people from different countries used it, then recently the vast majority of repatriates are Russian citizens.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized in the United States, according to the Brazilian TV channel Globo. According to him, Bolsonaro is in the AdventHealth Celebration Hospital in Orlando, Florida. He was hospitalized due to severe abdominal pain. Globo suggested that the problems of the former president are connected with the fact that in 2018 he was attacked with a knife.

Elina Ukhmanova, a bisexual 18-year-old from Dagestan, claims having spent four months in captivity at the Alliance Recovery “rehab center” in Makhachkala, undergoing a violent conversion treatment at the behest of her parents. Meduza learned her story from SK SOS, a Northern Caucasus LGBTQ crisis group. Ukhmanova says that she had twice fled from her parents’ home, because of physical and emotional violence in her family.

State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoy appealed to the Prosecutor General of Russia with a request to give a legal assessment of the actions of singer Valery Meladze, who, during a New Year's corporate party in Dubai, allegedly answered in a whisper to the slogan "Glory to Ukraine!". Lugovoi posted a copy of the appeal on his Telegram channel.

The supervisor of the Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern, Pavel Kamnev, developer of Caliber cruise missiles, died at the age of 85. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the concern. The press service of the President of Russia Pavel Kamnev is a designer in the field of rocket science. The Almaz-Antey concern said that Kaminev was “one of the pillars of the domestic defense and industrial complex”, he participated in the development of many missile systems.

The plane of the largest Russian charter company Azur Air, bound for Goa, made an emergency landing in the state of Gujarat in India after a mine was reported. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Ministry of Civil Aviation of India. The interlocutor of the agency said that "unknown people reported about the bombing of Azur Air flight 2401, flying on the Moscow-Goa route." TV presenter and actor Oskar Kuchera, who flew this flight, told TASS that there was no panic on board.

Elina Ukhmanova, a resident of Dagestan, filed a complaint with the police after she was forcibly detained and tortured for four months in the "Alliance Recovery Rehabilitation Center." This was reported to Meduza by the SK SOS crisis group, which helps LGBT people in the North Caucasus. Elina Ukhmanova said that she was subjected to physical and psychological violence in the family, which is why she ran away from home twice.