Bloomberg Russia’s defense ministry claimed a major strike on Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, killing hundreds of Ukrainian servicemen in retaliation for the New Year’s Day rocket attack on Makiyivka that killed at least 89 Russian troops. There was no immediate response from Ukraine. The ceasefire unilaterally declared by Moscow over Orthodox Christmas ended on January 7. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy …

Bloomberg Nato won’t let Serbia redeploy its security units in Kosovo, turning down a request made in December 2022 amid soaring tensions between the local Serb minority and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian authorities, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says. “We all knew and expected such response” from Nato’s Kosovo Force, or KFOR, Vucic said in interview to Belgrade-based Pink TV. The Nato …

  Bloomberg Former prime minister Theresa May has earned over £2.5 million on top of her official salary from outside engagements since the last general election, the most of any UK member of Parliament, according to an investigation by Sky News. Overall, parliamentarians earned £17.1 million extra since late 2019 on top of their individual £84,144 annual salaries. Two thirds …