A senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia hit Ukraine this week with missiles supplied by North Korea for the first time during its invasion.
The European Union on January 3 imposed sanctions on Russia's state-run diamond giant Alrosa and its CEO as part of a ban on imports of the precious stones over the Ukraine war.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk called on January 2 for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine0 as his office voiced alarm at the intensification of attacks.
Poland has called for the West to respond to Russia after it launched two massive waves of deadly air attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv responded with its own strikes on Russian border regions and in Russia-occupied Crimea.