Portuguese Azov Sergeant Tuga: Russians know that Azov is there and they heard English. Usually they kill themselves.
We just talk in English or broken Ukrainian. They easily understand we are not Ukrainians. They yell. We heard shots inside and after that nothing more. 1/
Tuga: Russia's worst nightmare about NATO boots on the ground.
The Russians don't like us because we killed them. The worst nightmare for them is foreigner former NATO military fighting with Azov. We are happy to be like that. 2/
Tuga: If you research about this conflict, the countries that are involved, you will easily see that this is the WW3.
The only 2 countries involved on the ground officially is only Ukraine and Russia. Politicians don't say the war is happening but people on the ground know. 3/
The Kyiv metro stopped operating on the morning of Jan 31 due to a power outage.
Passengers stranded on metro lines were forced to exit through tunnels along the tracks, The Kyiv Independent. 1/
Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal: A cascade shutdown in Ukraine's power grid in the morning on Jan 31, following disruptions to transmission lines between Romania and Moldova, as well as between western and central Ukraine. 2/
Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, reported emergency power shutdowns in Kyiv and its surrounding region in the morning. 3/
EU is weighing a major sanctions shift on Russian oil.
Brussels is considering scrapping the price cap and instead banning EU maritime services — insurance, transport, shipping — for Russian oil at any price, Bloomberg. 1/
Unlike the price cap, it would bar EU companies from enabling Russian oil exports outright, making sanctions harder to evade and easier to police. 2/
Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell to a 5 year low in 2025. The crude price cap is set to drop to about $44 per barrel from Feb 1, but several EU states oppose replacing it with a full services ban. 3/
Rasti, Ukrainian POW of 30 months: Russians beat me for 12 hours, of which about 4 hours were electric shocks.
There was an electric shocker for dogs, for animals. Sometimes I couldn't remember my mother's name. 1/
Rasti: When Russians continued to torture me, hatred for them accumulated. I assured myself that I would return to the ranks anyway. The sooner, the better.
A year before I was released from captivity, I already knew that I will return to combat. 2/
Rasti: I constantly have this theme that I am in captivity. People who have not experienced this, they do not appreciate life in small details.
It is normal to drink water, eat what you want, do what you want, go where you want. 3/