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Reuters: Finland's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the Russian ambassador to Helsinki to request an explanation regarding a suspected violation of Finnish airspace that occurred on February 7.

The Kyiv Independent: The European Union's lending arm, the European Investment Bank, has signed agreements to mobilize close to 1 billion euros in investments into Ukraine’s public and private sectors as the U.S. moves to cut funding to development projects in the country.

Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that "serious" members of U.S. President Donald Trump's team would travel to Ukraine this week for the first time, as diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia intensify.

Militarnyi: A company from Russia's Rostec corporation has signed contracts for the purchase of American and German equipment worth RUB 720 million ($7.4 million) to expand the production of electronic warfare.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces are concentrating troops for fresh assaults in Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, Lieutenant Colonel Dmytro Zaporozhets, a spokesperson for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk, said on Feb. 10.

Radio Prague: Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Zmeevsky on Monday to deliver a protest against threats made towards Senator Miroslava Němcová.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's Defense Ministry has officially approved the domestically-produced Baton ("a loaf of bread" in Ukrainian) drone for use by the Armed Forces, the ministry announced on Feb. 10.

Reuters: Russia's Nornickel, a major world producer of refined nickel and palladium, said its 2024 net profit fell 37% to $1.8 billion as Western sanctions and low metals prices squeezed earnings.

The Kyiv Independent: The Latvian Defense Ministry has ordered an unspecified number of Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers for Ukraine, the country's ministry announced on Feb. 10.

Reuters: Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway Transdniestria region will start receiving natural gas supplies via a Hungarian company under a loan provided by Moscow, separatist authorities said on Monday.

Euractiv: The European Commission will describe continued support for Ukraine as its "foremost priority" in its work programme for 2025, according to a near-final draft seen by Euractiv.

Reuters: The Trump administration's freeze of foreign funding has begun impacting an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, halting dozens of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in aid.

Semafor: Russia-Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg told US allies in recent meetings he is preparing options for ending the war in Ukraine to present to Trump.

Meduza: In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the head of St. Petersburg’s prisons delivered a direct message to an elite unit of guards tasked with overseeing the influx of prisoners from the war: “Be cruel, don’t pity them.”

Politico: European countries are holding behind-the-scenes talks on large-scale seizures of Moscow’s oil-exporting tankers in the Baltic Sea, according to two European Union diplomats and two government officials. They are also currently drafting new legislation to add legal heft to those efforts.

The Kyiv Independent: Drones attacked Russia's Krasnodar Krai on Feb. 10, reportedly targeting the Afipskiy oil refinery, a key facility processing 6.25 million tons of oil annually, claimed Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation.

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