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Politico: European governments are pressuring the EU to appoint a negotiator to represent their interests on Ukraine, fearing the United States will stitch up a deal with Russia behind their backs.
ISW: Russia continues to scale up the production and innovation of inexpensive strike drones that have succeeded in generating favorable battlefield effects for Russian forces. Russian forces are struggling with other technological aspects of the battlespace, however, including the effectiveness of some guided artillery munitions.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces carried out a massive attack on infrastructure facilities in Kryvyi Rih overnight on Jan. 14, leaving over 45,000 electricity subscribers without power. By 7:30 a.m. local time, emergency crew reconnected all customers affected by the outages.
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian air defense missile reportedly struck a residential building in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don overnight on Jan. 14, according to eyewitness reports and footage uploaded to social media.
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Reuters: Danish building materials company Rockwool said on Tuesday that Russia has taken control of the company's four factories in Russia and the company is no longer in control of its assets in the country.
The Moscow Times: Nearly one-third of Russia’s search-and-rescue hubs are operating without the aircraft necessary to respond to aviation and maritime disasters, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday.
Reuters: The indicative price of oil used by the Russian government to calculate taxes paid by energy companies fell last month to its lowest since May 2020, signalling shrinking state energy revenue, government data showed on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: Russia is preparing a new economics textbook for university students that aims to challenge what its authors call a “myth” that democracy drives economic growth and to revive the socialist economic theories of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
RBC-Ukraine: Russian forces are gathering personnel at frontline positions in preparation for assault operations toward Orikhiv, said the spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces, Vladyslav Voloshyn.
United24 Media: Russia is planning to recruit approximately 67,000 new contract servicemen in 2026 as part of efforts to reinforce units within its “Southern Military District.”
Reuters: Drones struck two oil tankers in the Black Sea on Tuesday, including one chartered by U.S. oil major Chevron, the companies involved said, as they sailed toward a terminal on the Russian coast. Both were en route to the Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka terminal, a loading point for around 80% of Kazakh oil destined for international markets as well as some Russian crude, according to eight sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine struck a key Russian factory involved in the production of strike and reconnaissance drones in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, overnight on Jan. 13, sparking a huge blaze and a "series of loud explosions," Ukraine's Security Service said.
The Moscow Times: Russia has summoned Poland's ambassador to protest Warsaw's detention of a Russian archaeologist on a Ukrainian arrest warrant, Moscow's foreign ministry said Tuesday.
The Guardian: ‘I made the biggest mistake’: the young Yemeni men lured into the Russian army with empty promises. The offer of thousands of dollars a month was hard to refuse for those living in poverty in a war-torn country. But while some Yemenis have died on the frontline, others are now prisoners of war.
Reuters: Poland's power system faced its largest cyberattack in years in the last week of December that also followed a different pattern, the country's energy minister said on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: Magnit, one of Russia’s largest grocery retailers, is preparing to expand into Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday, potentially marking the entry of a major federal retailer into the regions.
Reuters: Sales of new passenger cars in Russia dropped 15.6% in 2025, analytical agency Autostat said on Tuesday, citing data from consulting firm PPK.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is "going all in" to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure after the second mass attack in less than a week, Deputy Energy Minister Mykola Kolisnyk said on Jan. 13.
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