1. On Wednesday, January 26, the US Ambassador to Moscow submitted to the Russian Foreign Ministry a written response to its proposals in the field of European security.
2. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called the evacuation of employees of the embassies of a number of countries from Ukraine a mistake against the background of information about the escalation of the situation from the Russian Federation near the Ukrainian borders. Before that, CNN attributed to Biden the words about a possible Russian attack on Ukraine, in which "Kiev will be plundered."
3. Artemy Ryabchuk, an employee of the National Guard, who fired at the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro on January 27 and killed five people, was arrested for 60 days without the right to bail.
4. After the incident with the execution in the Dnieper, the head of the National Guard, Nikolai Balan, resigned and suspended the command of the regiment in which the tragedy occurred. The President fired Balan and appointed a new acting director in his place. commander of the National Guard.
5. In Paris, political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four agreed for the first time since 2019 on a joint communiqué and agreed to meet again in Berlin.
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