- A Moscow city court extended until April 24 the detention of Ukrainian navy servicemen captured by Russia’s coast guard and special forces in international waters of the Black Sea in late November.
- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko will be nominated for the presidency on Jan. 22, according to reports in Ukrainian media.
- Epidemic thresholds for acute respiratory viral infections, ARVIs, and influenza have been surpassed in two regions: Kyiv and Zhytomyr, Ukraine’s acting health minister, Ulana Suprun, said at a press conference in Kyiv.
- In news that will surprise few in Ukraine, new Facebook rules for managing groups have revealed that a number of popular “Ukrainian” Facebook pages, including those promoting “patriotic” content, are in fact administered from Russia.
- Around 70 parishes of the former Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate have joined the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the president’s representative in parliament Iryna Lutsenko has told a Rada committee.
- The international investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine is drawing to a close, First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Dmytro Storozhuk has said.
- Three Ukrainian tennis players have cruised past their opponents in the first round of the Australian Open.
- Check out the Kyiv Post’s new video blog with the latest news from Ukraine, hosted this week by Post reporter Oleksiy Sorokin.
Russia’s war on Ukraine
- One Ukrainian soldier was killed in action and another two were wounded in Donbas on Jan. 14, according to a report by the press service of the Joint Forces Operation.
Business news
- Indian officials are showing a keen interest in deepening trade partnership with Ukraine, says Stepan Kubiv, Ukraine’s vice-prime minister and minister for trade and economic development, who leda recent trade delegation to Mumbai.
- Ukraine’s largest private energy holding DTEK, controlled by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, has bought shares in regional energy distribution companies Kyivoblenergo and Odesaoblenergo from Russian-owned company VS Energy.
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