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History: January 2025

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Retrospective · events of 13 January 2025

Cold and carbon monoxide: the cost of Transnistria's gas loss

World

A look back at 13 January 2025, as gas cuts, grid security and sanctions shaped the region's news.

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Retrospective · events of 13 January 2025

Russia and Ukraine trade claims over Kursk and gas

Security

A retrospective on 13 January 2025, when Moscow accused Kyiv over a TurkStream gas site and reports of captured North Korean soldiers circulated.

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Retrospective · events of 13 January 2025

What the capture of two North Korean soldiers meant

Politics

A look back at the announcement of Ukraine's first healthy North Korean prisoners in Kursk Oblast, reported on 11 January 2025.

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Retrospective · events of 13 January 2025

Russia's TurkStream claim and Ukraine's North Korean captives

Security

A look back at 13 January 2025, when Moscow accused Kyiv of targeting a gas facility and Ukraine had announced the capture of two North Korean soldiers.

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Retrospective · events of 14 January 2025

What Kyiv and Vilnius were dealing with in mid-January

Politics

A look back at two regional developments reported in the days before 14 January 2025: captured North Korean soldiers and a Lithuanian move to protect a power link.

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Retrospective · events of 15 January 2025

Day after Tatarstan raid, Russian missiles target Ukrainian power generation

Security

A look back at a missile assault on energy production that followed days of Ukrainian and Russian claims of strikes on energy and industrial sites.

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Retrospective · events of 15 January 2025

What Kyiv said about captured North Korean soldiers

Politics

A look back at the announcement of two North Korean prisoners taken in Kursk Oblast, and what surrounded it.

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Retrospective · events of 15 January 2025

Missiles, drones and a grid under pressure

Security

A look back at 15 January 2025, when a Russian missile barrage on energy sites followed Ukraine's deep strikes inside Russia.

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Retrospective · events of 16 January 2025

Starmer in Kyiv for 100-year partnership deal

Politics

A look back at the visit on 16 January 2025 to sign an agreement formalising British economic and military support for Ukraine.

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Retrospective · events of 16 January 2025

What the UK–Ukraine 100-year pact signalled

Politics

A look back at the agreement Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv to sign, set beside the war's widening international dimension.

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Retrospective · events of 16 January 2025

Transnistria's gas cutoff: where things stood on 16 January 2025

World

A look back at the energy crisis in Moldova's breakaway region, which had extended its state of emergency days earlier.

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Retrospective · events of 16 January 2025

What did Starmer's Kyiv visit promise Ukraine?

Security

A look back at the 100-year agreement signed in Kyiv, set against two days of heavy long-range strikes by both sides.

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Retrospective · events of 17 January 2025

Kyiv's 100-year deal amid energy strikes

Security

A look back at a January 2025 pairing of long-term diplomacy and missile attacks on Ukraine's power grid.

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Retrospective · events of 17 January 2025

What the UK pact and North Korean captives signalled

Politics

A look back at 17 January 2025, framed by a 100-year British agreement signed in Kyiv and the capture of two North Korean soldiers.

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Retrospective · events of 21 January 2025

Four killed in Kryvyi Rih as Russia pounds Ukrainian cities

Security

A look back at the strikes, drone raids and diplomacy that framed the days before 21 January 2025.

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Retrospective · events of 22 January 2025

What January 2025 strikes said about the war

Opinion

A look back at 22 January 2025 and the reports of drone raids, missile strikes and a new UK–Ukraine accord in the days before it.

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Retrospective · events of 23 January 2025

Flights halted in Kazan and Nizhnekamsk after Ukrainian drone attacks

Opinion

A look back at the reports from the days before 23 January 2025, when attacks crossed the front line in both directions.

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Retrospective · events of 24 January 2025

Ryazan refinery hit as Ukraine finalises military reforms

Opinion

A retrospective on a day when mobilisation reform, drone strikes, the return of fallen soldiers and protests in Slovakia pointed to pressures on Ukraine at home and abroad.

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Retrospective · events of 29 January 2025

What the war's pressures looked like on 29 January 2025

Security

A retrospective on manpower reforms, long-range drone strikes, civilian losses and the return of fallen soldiers, as reported in the days up to 29 January 2025.

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Retrospective · events of 30 January 2025

Nine killed as Russian drone hits Sumy apartment block

Opinion

A Russian drone strike on a Sumy apartment block, set against a week of mobilisation reform, cross-border drone attacks and regional political friction.

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