After weeks of reticence, German officials on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack last month at Leipzig/Halle Airport and announced they would summon Moscow’s ambassador to Berlin, close a Russian consulate and take other measures in response. Source link
Rescue workers at a Russian drone attack site, a bus carrying miners in the Dnipropetrovsk region, photo released by the Ukrainian State Emergency Services on February 1, 2026. UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICES/AFP Moscow ended the brief “energy truce” on Sunday, February 1, by killing 12 coal mine workers with a swarm of drones and launching a total of 90 long-range attack devices that same day. On January 29, US President Donald Trump said he had personally asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, not to bomb Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week. The next day, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded that the truce would only last until February 1. Overnight on January 31, Russian strikes resumed in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy, worsening the power outages that the Ukrainian population has had to endure since the start of this unusually harsh winter. However, the attack that killed 12 miners in Ternivka on Sunday, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, was unprecedented: The target, a bus traveling more than 70 kilometers from the nearest Russian positions, …
