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The Kyiv Independent: A Russian drone struck a residential building in the northeastern city of Sumy overnight on Jan. 30, killing two people and injuring at least nine others, local authorities reported.
BBC News: Russia has stepped up its military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers from its key Tartous port on the country's Mediterranean coast, analysis by BBC Verify suggests.
Reuters: Germany's budget committee has called Finance Minister Joerg Kukies to approve an additional 3 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The Kyiv Independent: NATO is on course to fulfill its promise to send 40 billion euros in security assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska said on Jan. 29.
The Moscow Times: Companies tied to sanctioned Russian billionaires are taking advantage of a loophole in Dutch legislation to evade financial oversight, the Dutch public broadcaster NOS has reported.
Politico: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha have both been invited to a planned Feb. 12 meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Ukrainska Pravda: The Russian occupying authorities have reported receiving over RUB 4.8 billion (US$48.5 million) from the sale of "nationalised" property belonging to Ukrainians in occupied Crimea.
Reuters: An overnight Ukrainian drone attack hit Russia's Andreapol oil pumping station, part of the oil export route via the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, causing a fire and oil products to leak. The attack also hit a Russian missile storage facility in Russia's Tver region, causing a string of explosions.
Politico: Slovakia summoned Ukraine's ambassador to discuss recent statements over gas transit, as the ill-tempered dispute between the two countries rumbled on.
The Moscow Times: Ukraine has confiscated 2.11 billion hryvnia ($50.3 million) worth of Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska’s raw material assets two years after blocking their shipment, the SBU security service said Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Finnish company Insta presented a Steel Eagle drone, developed in cooperation with Ukraine, the Finnish broadcaster Yle reported on Jan. 29.
Bloomberg: Poland is targeting companies importing Russian fertilisers, in a bid to prevent the European Union from developing another dependency on Moscow for a key resource (archive).
Ukrinform: Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and his Croatian counterpart, Andrej Plenkovic, discussed the creation of a joint working group to monitor the illegal activities of Russia's shadow fleet.
Reuters: The European Commission has proposed Russian primary aluminium imports be included in its 16th package of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, the proposal document seen by Reuters showed.
Meduza: The European Union’s next sanctions against Russia will include restrictions on several popular pro-Kremlin media outlets.
Reuters: The European Commission did not propose a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas in its latest package of sanctions because member states raised concerns about first securing alternatives including from the United States, EU diplomats said.
The Moscow Times: The key eastern Ukrainian stronghold of Chasiv Yar has fallen to advancing Russian forces, five Ukrainian and European military and government sources have independently confirmed to MT.
The Kyiv Independent: The number of Russians signing contracts at Moscow recruitment centres to fight in the war against Ukraine has fallen five-fold since its peak in late summer of last year, the independent Russian outlet Verstka reported on Jan. 29.
AFP: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Wednesday the bloc could hit back with sanctions against any attacks in space, pointing to hostile actions by Russia. "We are already the targets of hybrid warfare. Including in space -- with systematic jamming of satellite navigation signals," Kallas told a conference in Brussels.
Reuters: Ukrainian investigators have opened a criminal case involving Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, a move likely to deepen a standoff in his ministry over arms procurement that could strain Kyiv's ties with important Western allies.
Bloomberg: Syria’s new government pressed Russia for compensation during its first talks with a Kremlin delegation since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad (archive).
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