January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Temp oil depot in the Russian city of Rybinsk, an official from Kyiv's SBU domestic security service says. Officials said the attack on the facility, which the SBU said was a key logistics hub for fuel, sparked a large fire.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address on New Year's Eve, expressed the belief that Russia would win the war in Ukraine. “We believe in you and our victory,” Putin said in his address to the Russians, while calling on them to “support our heroes” who are engaged in the offensive in Ukraine, AFP reported.

Ukraine’s president has floated a possible compromise to a key Russian demand that Kyiv give up territory in eastern Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s proposal could address one of the main sticking points that have bogged down U.

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Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone shortly before the meeting. Trump described it as a “good and very productive telephone call.”