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The

has not stopped but the New Year does not start with good news for Russia.

Both the Ukrainian media and Russian nationalist bloggers report hundreds of Russian soldiers killed and wounded sleeping next to an ammunition depot hit by shells fired by kyiv forces.

Moscow, meanwhile, insists on its attacks on civilian infrastructure in kyiv.

Iranian drone strikes have caused power and heating cuts in the Ukrainian capital.

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12:21

Russian gas exports outside the former Soviet bloc fell 45.5% in 2022 from the previous year

Russia's gas exports to countries outside the former Soviet bloc fell 45.5% in 2022, according to data from the giant Gazprom released on Monday, after a year marked by a sharp decline in the supply of Russian hydrocarbons to Europe due to the war. in Ukraine.

Gazprom President Alexei Miller said in a statement that

.

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12:06

Gazprom extracted 20% less gas in 2022 than the previous year

The Russian gas giant Gazprom extracted a total of

in 2022 , the CEO of the Russian gas giant Gazprom, Alexéi Miller, reported on Monday.

In a message posted on the Russian corporation's Telegram channel, Miller adds that

According to previous data, in 2022, 243,000 million cubic meters were supplied to national customers.

However, a similar statement released just a year ago stated that

It was its best result in thirteen years, it stood out then.

According to these figures provided by the company, between 2021 and 2022, the volume of gas extracted by Gazprom has been reduced by 20%.

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11:40

Ukraine claims to have neutralized much of Russia's attack last night

The Ukrainian Army has indicated this Monday that it has managed to intercept and neutralize a large part of

against the country in a massive way last night.

"Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a total of 39 drones that Russian forces launched against Ukraine, along with 2 Orlan-10 type reconnaissance UAVs (unmanned aircraft) and one Kh-59 type air-launched guided missile , on the night of January 1-2, 2023," says the command of the Ukrainian Army Air Force.

For his part, the mayor of Kiev,

, one of the cities affected by the bombing, confirmed that

Although the Ukrainian Army reported the number of drones and missiles that were intercepted, the total number of devices launched by Russia in recent hours is unknown, although

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11:19

Russian nationalists criticize the death of soldiers who slept next to an ammunition depot hit by Ukraine

Russian nationalist bloggers on Monday lashed out

in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.

Unverified images show a massive building reduced to smoking rubble.

Daniil Bezsonov, a senior Russian-installed official in Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, said the building had suffered a "massive hit" from US-made rockets on New Year's Eve shortly after midnight.

According to preliminary reports, it was being used as staff accommodation, he said.

," Bezsonov said on the Telegram messaging app.

"The building itself was badly damaged."

Russia's state news agency TASS said at least 15 people were injured.

a former commander of pro-Russian troops in eastern Ukraine who has become one of Russia's highest-profile nationalist bloggers, also said the death toll was in the hundreds.

Ammunition had been stored in the building, which detonated when the barracks was hit.

"What happened in Makiivka is horrible

," wrote

another Russian military blogger with more than 700,000 Telegram followers. Do you understand that even if they hit with artillery, there will be many injured or killed?"

The Ukrainian medium Ukrinform, for its part, speaks of 400 deaths and 300 wounded.

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10:55

Andalusia has attended more than 48,000 Primary Care consultations for patients from Ukraine since March

The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has attended a total of 48,401 consultations for patients from Ukraine in its Primary Care centers since March 2022, after the war began as a result of the Russian invasion of that country.

Specifically, there have been 8,859 cares provided by Pediatrics, 17,800 by Family Medicine and 21,742 by Nursing, as reported this Monday in a note by the Andalusian Government Health and Consumption Department.

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10:41

Poland estimates that almost nine million Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the country and more than seven have since returned.

The Polish authorities have indicated this Monday that the number of Ukrainian refugees who have crossed the border into Polish territory since the start of the war is around nine million.

The Polish Border Guard has indicated in a statement that

, although that same day some 7,200 people left the territory to go back to Ukraine.

Since last February 24, the date on which the Russian invasion began,

after having left the country due to the increase in hostilities.

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10:18

Wholesale gas prices in Europe at their lowest level since the start of the war in Ukraine

Almost five times cheaper than in August.

The wholesale price of natural gas in Europe has fallen this Monday to its lowest level since the beginning of the war, continuing its decline thanks to

that saves consumption.

The reference contract for the continent, the TTF in the Dutch market, has dropped another 4.67%, to

, around 09:35 (Peninsula time ).

and the Balearic Islands) this morning.

It supposes the lowest price since February 21

The price of gas, for delivery the following month, has lost almost 50% in one month and has dropped from the summer peaks:

.

Gas prices began to rise in the fall of 2021, with the start of a reduction in Russian gas deliveries to Europe, and then very sharply after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Volumes traded this Monday are small as the main commodity market, London, is closed.

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09:58

The Ibex 35 also starts the year with a rise

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Monday with a rise of 0.83%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,285 integers at 9:01 a.m., on a day marked by the closure of other markets, due to which is expected to be less negotiating activity.

In this way,

, inflation and rate hikes, the Madrid selective started the year with an eye on the psychological level of 8,300 integers.

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09:33

European shares, rising in the first session of 2023

Markets opened higher on Monday in the first trading session of 2023, after a difficult year marred by fears of a recession and war between Russia and Ukraine.

The European STOXX 600 rose 0.5% at 09:10 (Peninsula and Balearic time).

It had ended 2022 with heavy losses, buoyed by central banks' aggressive tightening policy to curb rising prices, an economic slowdown, the Russia-Ukraine war that increased inflationary pressures, and growing concerns about COVID cases. in China.

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09:12

A chaplain on the Bakhmut front to uphold the faith of Ukrainian fighters

Mark Kupchenenko lives alone in a large abandoned house in Bakhmut and every day he travels to the front of the Ukrainian army to try to relieve the stress and anguish of his comrades in arms, subjected to the deluge of Russian fire.

This 26-year-old man is a military chaplain and his views on the mental health of troops, which he candidly shares, contrast with

stationed in one of the hot spots on the eastern front in Ukraine.

Every day he goes to the front.

"I talk to men, I pray, I transmit the word of God, I try to answer the difficult questions that men who live in such inhuman conditions can ask themselves," she explains.

More details, in

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08:50

The worst year for the world's megavillains: this is how democracies have counterattacked

All the forecasts indicated that the democratic recession would continue in 2022, however the most powerful tyrannies, from China and Russia to Iran, are weakened by the internal opposition and its disastrous decisions.

," says an expert.

An article by Jorge Benítez

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08:27

Russia risks another exit of tech professionals with new remote work law

Russia's battered tech sector risks losing more workers in the new year to planned remote work legislation, as authorities try to lure back some of the tens of thousands who have gone abroad without prompting them to cut ties completely.

With relatively portable jobs,

and the hundreds of thousands that followed when a reservist mobilization began in September.

The government estimates that 100,000 tech job specialists currently work for Russian companies from abroad.

Now, legislation is being discussed for early next year that could ban remote work for some professions.

Hardline lawmakers, fearful that more Russian professionals will end up in NATO countries and inadvertently sharing sensitive security information, have proposed banning some specialists from leaving Russia.

: "In the end, whoever can attract the most talented staff, including from abroad, will win."

Information by Alejandro Médula for Reuters from Moscow.

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08:11

Russia once again has the supply of electricity and heating as military objectives

Russian drones that have attacked infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital and surrounding areas have damaged power facilities and caused some power outages, according to authorities, as Russia extended its bombardment until Monday, January 2.

Ukraine claims its defense systems destroyed 22 aerial objects over Kiev this morning

, according to its military administration.

The attacks caused power and heating cuts, kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.

Earlier, one person was injured by debris from a destroyed drone.

The regional military command in eastern Ukraine reported that air defense systems destroyed nine Iranian-made drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions on Monday morning.

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07:50

New bombardments in kyiv during this early morning

The

has no truce.

kyiv has suffered a new air attack this morning after a New Year's Eve and New Year weekend marked by successive bombardments by Russia throughout the country.

Around 01:00 this morning, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital has ordered citizens to go to the city shelters.

"The air defense system is already working. There are balconies and windows of buildings that have been damaged in the Desnyansi district," Seguéi Popko, the head of the city administration, said on Telegram.

For his part, Oelski Kuleba, the head of the kyiv military administrative region, has specified that the Russians have launched "several waves of Shaded drones."

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