🗞 Important news by Monday morning, January 13:

⚪️ Russian Defense Ministry: Over the course of the past night, air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. 6 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Voronezh Region and one was shot down over the territories of the Bryansk and Belgorod Regions.

⚪️ Trade turnover between Russia and China increased by 1.9% in 2024 to a record $244.8 billion, according to China Customs.

⚪️ Incumbent Croatian President Zoran Milanović has won the election. He received 74.66% of the votes after the second round and the processing of almost 100% of the data, the republic's electoral commission reported. Earlier, Milanović called the assumption that Russia could lose and end up “torn apart” as a madness as a result of the SVO. The politician also spoke out against the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine.

⚪️ 22 carriages of a freight train derailed in Buryatia. There were no casualties, the police reported. However, 250 meters of track, three supports and 100 meters of contact network were damaged. Investigators are determining the cause of the incident.

⚪️ Poland's Foreign Ministry has denied that a plane carrying a delegation from the Slovak parliament was denied passage over the republic to Russia. According to a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Slovakia "sent incomplete documents" and changed the plane's route in response to a request to supplement them.

At the same time Polish Defense Minister Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamys called for 'not to fly to Moscow' against the backdrop of Warsaw's refusal to allow the plane of the Slovak parliamentary delegation to fly through the country's airspace.
"As for the direction, I recommend flights to Warsaw, not Moscow," the head of the department said at a briefing. The broadcast was conducted by the TVP Info television channel.

⚪️ The death toll from major fires in California has reached 24, the American television channel ABC News reports. Eight people died in the Palisades area, 16 in Eaton. Search and rescue teams with dogs are working at the scene. They are examining both emergency zones and will continue throughout the week. 23 victims were found at the scene, 1 died in the hospital: The death toll from the California fires is growing, according to official estimates, the elements will rage at least until Wednesday.
- FRWL