Day: February 3, 2026

Donald Trump says India has agreed to replace Russian oil with US supplies — and maybe even Venezuela. DW asks whether the Latin American producer can realistically meet New Delhi’s needs.

The 2nd International Winter Tale Music Festival will be held in Gabala beginning on February 5, Azernews reports.

The attack – which reportedly consisted of more than 70 missiles and 450 drones – comes after a so-called “energy truce” expired at the weekend.

Russia has initiated its largest barrage of missile and drone strikes on Ukraine this year, impacting major cities and crucial energy infrastructure. This aggressive action ends a brief ceasefire that had been brokered with involvement from both the United States and Russia. Ukrainian officials reported significant explosions in multiple cities, including Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, …

A court in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk sentenced former Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze, now an opposition politician, to six and a half years in jail in absentia, finding him guilty of fighting for Ukraine as a “mercenary,” an accusation for which many Georgian citizens have previously been sentenced in absentia.

The Russian General Prosecutor’s Office reported on February 3 that Baramidze arrived in Ukraine “as a mercenary” in February 2022, took part in combat operations against Russian forces until April 2022, and received a “mercenary payment” of more than 238,000 rubles. Sentenced to a general-regime correctional colony, Baramidze has been declared internationally wanted.

Giorgi Baramidze is currently an opposition politician in the United National Movement party. He served as deputy prime minister from 2006 to 2012 under UNM rule and had also been a member of the Georgian Parliament at different times.

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