New Year's appeal of Vladimir Zelensky. Full text Dear people! Dear Ukraine! Very soon the year 2023 ends. Another year of our independence. Another year of our struggle for independence. Another year of the war. War for their land. For our freedom. For each other. By asking millions of Ukrainians about what this year was, you can get millions of different answers. Everyone will remember something of his own. He will remember someone his own. Everyone has something to smile because of.

Queen Denmark Margreta II reported in the New Year's appeal that she would renounce the throne on January 14, 2024. The 83-year-old Queen will transfer the throne to her son Crown Prince Frederick, reports the Danish state television channel TV 2. “I decided that now is the right time. On January 14, 2024, 52 years after I changed my beloved father, I will leave the post of Queen Denmark, ”said Queen Margreta.

Border guards in Ukraine began asking citizens traveling abroad for certificates from territorial recruitment centers (TCC, an analogue of the military registration and enlistment office), Suspilna reports with reference to a video on social networks. In the video, a man with many children says that he is not allowed to go abroad without a certificate from the TCC or military registration documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his New Year’s address to the country against the backdrop of the Kremlin. The address was first aired to residents of Russia’s Far East. In his speech, Putin emphasized Russia’s “shared values” and “collective achievements.” He did not use the words “war” or “ special military operation .” In the past year, we have worked hard and accomplished much.

18-year-old Russian military man Stas Silchenkov, who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, died in the war in Ukraine, the BBC Russian Service reported. This is the first known death of a military man born in 2005, the publication notes. The lists of dead Russian military personnel maintained by BBC and Mediazona journalists along with a team of volunteers previously did not include soldiers born this year.

Russian courts have sentenced “more than 200 representatives of Ukrainian armed formations” to long terms of imprisonment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Lavrov also noted that, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, more than four thousand criminal cases have been initiated against about 900 Ukrainians.

A Russian citizen was killed and six Russians suffered varying degrees of injuries after a tourist boat collided with rocks off Mai Thon Island in the Thai province of Phuket. As Russian Consul General in Phuket Vladimir Sosnov told TASS, a boat with tourists collided with rocks on the afternoon of December 31, around 15:00 local time (11:00 Moscow time). The victims were hospitalized. In a conversation with RIA Novosti, Sosnov noted that there were minors among the victims.

A missile strike on a warehouse in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district during Russia’s December 29 attack killed at least 23 people, according to the latest information from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Rescue operations at the site are ongoing. Kyiv City Military Administration Head Serhiy Popko said that the bodies of five victims were pulled from the rubble Sunday morning.

Employees of the German TV channel ZDF came under Russian fire in Kharkov, according to the channel’s website. All of them were at the Kharkiv Palace hotel, which was hit by Russian troops on the evening of December 30. As a result of the attack, a Ukrainian translator for the TV channel, who was in the hotel lobby at the time of the attack, was injured; she was diagnosed with fractures.

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a New Year's address. On the afternoon of December 31, Moscow time, it was shown on Russian television channels in the Far East. “Dear citizens of Russia, dear friends, we are saying goodbye to 2023, very soon it will become part of history, and we have to move forward, create the future.

Officials in several Russian cities, mainly in Russia’s Far East, have canceled New Year’s fireworks following the deaths of more than 20 people in Belgorod due to shelling. Fireworks in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky have been canceled, reported Mayor Konstantin Bryzgin, although there will still be a festive program. Officials in Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok also canceled fireworks. Magadan Mayor Yuri Grishan said that holding New Year’s events in the city center would be inappropriate.

And that the climatic crisis cannot be paused The outgoing 2023 will be remembered not only by wars (following the Russian-Ukrainian, which was going on for the second year, war broke out in the Middle East, conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and others), but also by natural cataclysms. Waves of heat and forest fires, floods, hurricanes and melting of glaciers are direct or indirect consequences of the climatic crisis.

According to the latest data, 23 people died due to a missile strike on a warehouse in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kyiv, the State Emergency Service (State Emergency Service) of Ukraine said. Emergency rescue work on the site of the missile strike continues. In the first half of December 31, Ukrainian rescuers removed from the blockages of the body of five dead, follows from the words of the head of the city military administration Sergey Popko.

Sergey Bobok / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Kharkov. December 30, 2023 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a missile blow to Kharkov on the evening of December 30. In total, at least six missiles were released around the city, presumably from the Iskander complex. Due to a missile strike, a hotel, apartment buildings, kindergarten, administrative buildings, shops, restaurants, trading pavilions and cars were damaged, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said .

Authorities in several Russian cities, mainly in the Far East, have canceled New Year's fireworks displays after more than 20 people were killed in Belgorod due to shelling. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, fireworks were canceled, but the festive program was left in place, said the mayor of the city, Konstantin Bryzgin. The authorities of Blagoveshchensk did the same, said the head of the city Oleg Imameev. Festive fireworks displays have been canceled in Vladivostok, said .