NATO The president of Romania Klaus Iohannis will receive the NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, in Bucharest on Monday. Stoltenberg will chair the meeting of NATO foreign ministers hosted by the Romanian capital city as of Tuesday. Also on this occasion, the US state secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Bucharest, and will have meetings with president Iohannis, PM Nicolae Ciucă and the foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu. The NATO meeting, the first of this kind organised in Romania, focuses on supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion, energy security and implementing the Alliance’s new strategic concept.
UKRAINE Heavy rainfall is expected in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv as of Sunday, with sub-zero temperatures both during the day and at night. Millions of people in the city and the region around it are still without electricity and heat, after Russian shelling damaged the country’s energy infrastructure. The region of Dnipropetrovsk, in central Ukraine, was once again hit by 5 Russian missile strikes and heavy artillery attacks, the regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said. Homes and other buildings were destroyed, but no victims were reported. However, in the southern region of Kherson, where the Russian troops pulled out 2 weeks ago, at least 32 people were killed in the bombings, the Ukrainian police reported.
