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AP News: The Trump administration’s Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
ISW: Ukrainian forces launched a new series of battalion-sized mechanized assaults in Kursk Oblast and advanced up to five kilometers behind Russian lines southeast of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast on February 6.
Reuters: Eight Ukrainian children seized from their families by officials in the Russia-annexed and controlled Crimea peninsula and placed in state orphanages returned home on Thursday, a senior Ukrainian official said.
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The Moscow Times: Syria’s new government is open to allowing Russia to keep its strategic military bases in the country after the ouster of Kremlin ally Bashar al-Assad, Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra told The Washington Post on Thursday.
Politico: Russian bots have driven a dramatic surge of disinformation on the social media platform X days before Germany's election, according to a government report seen by POLITICO.
Reuters: Russia's foreign intelligence service released an English-language video on Thursday, urging "true American patriots" who care about world peace to get in touch via secure communication in response to efforts by the CIA to recruit Russians.
Meduza: Billionaire Elon Musk and U.S. first son Donald Trump Jr. have both shared a video on X that was originally posted by Russia’s Matryoshka disinformation network.
The Kyiv Independent: U.S. actor Ben Stiller has denied social media reports on Feb. 5 that the U.S. Agency for International Development funded his humanitarian trip to Ukraine, calling the claims "lies coming from Russian media."
Reuters: Captains of ships that damage underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea such as telecoms cables or pipelines should be put under EU sanctions to deter such acts, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Thursday.
Finland’s government on Thursday proposed a ban on property purchases by nationals of countries that wage wars of aggression, a move that would effectively restrict real estate transactions by Russian citizens.
The Moscow Times: Azerbaijani authorities ordered the closure of the local branch of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian state-funded cultural diplomacy agency. Azerbaijani media claimed last month that the Baku-based “Russian House” harbored Russian intelligence agents.
AP News: Britain’s government revoked the accreditation of a Russian diplomat on Thursday in a tit-for-tat move after Moscow expelled a British official last year on spying allegations.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Thursday it had received a first batch of French Mirage 2000 fighter jets as well as U.S.-made F-16 fighters from the Netherlands as European allies seek to strengthen Kyiv's hand in its war with Russia.
AFP: Slovakia's gas transit company SPP said Thursday the country was now getting Russian gas via Turkey after Ukraine halted flows via its territory.
Reuters: An ex-employee of major Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML held on suspicion of stealing and selling corporate secrets to a Russian buyer also had contact with Russia's FSB intelligence service, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Politico: Putin has sacked the boss of space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, the Kremlin announced Thursday, as the once world-beating program falls behind its competitors in the space race.
Reuters: Russia said on Thursday it had refused to renew the accreditation of Le Monde's correspondent due to France's refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter, leaving the renowned French daily absent from Moscow for the first time since the 1950s.
The Kyiv Independent: Over six months of fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Russian losses have reached nearly 40,000 personnel, with over 16,000 killed, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Feb. 6. Ukrainian forces have also reportedly captured 909 Russian soldiers during the operation.
FT: European prosecutors are examining how the Moscow office of an IT contractor helped to build the EU’s new electronic border system, which will establish the bloc’s biggest personal information database (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine struck the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield in Russia's Krasnodar Krai with drones overnight on Feb. 6, the General Staff reported. The airfield, located 230 kilometers (142 miles) from the front line, is a key launch site for Russian Shahed-type drones used against Ukraine.
worth mentioning
Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion: Six Month Assessment - ISW Special Report
It’s Russian men against Ukrainian machines on the battlefields in Ukraine - WSJ
Russian TV falls for fake report on DeepSeek's 'Soviet code'
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