Key Developments on February 1st, 2026: Ukraine Bus Attack, US-Venezuela Thaw, and Azerbaijan-Armenia Cooperation
A Russian attack on a bus in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine killed 15 miners and injured seven others on Sunday, February 1st, 2026, according to Ukraine's biggest private energy firm, DTEK. The attack occurred outside the city of Pavlohrad, targeting a service bus in the town of Ternivka, DTEK reported. The strikes came as Ukraine's president announced trilateral peace talks in the United Arab Emirates, according to Euronews.
In other news, the United States continued to normalize relations with Venezuela. Laura Dogu, the US chargé d'affaires for Venezuela, arrived in Caracas to reopen the US diplomatic mission, which had been closed since 2019, Euronews reported. This move follows the deposition of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro approximately a month prior.
Meanwhile, as part of the normalization process between Baku and Yerevan, grain wagons from Russia were dispatched to Armenia through Azerbaijani territory on Sunday. According to Euronews, a total of 25 grain wagons, weighing 1,746 tonnes, were sent. To date, 285 wagons carrying nearly 19,900 tonnes of grain have been transported via this route.
Elsewhere in Europe, visitors flocked to a frozen beach along Poland's Baltic Sea coast as extreme cold temperatures created rare winter scenes. Euronews reported that temperatures dropped sharply, with forecasts warning of lows nearing minus 20 degrees Celsius. Large sections of the shoreline and the Vistula estuary were covered in ice, drawing crowds to Mikoszewo, northern Poland. Visitors described the scene as striking and rare in scale, despite similar conditions occasionally occurring.
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