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Reuters: European Union leaders agreed on Monday to do more to bolster their defences against Russia and other threats by hiking spending and filling gaps in their military capabilities.
The Insider: Russian state broadcaster Channel One has aired footage of Russian military snipers using American-made Desert Tech rifles and Hornady ammunition, despite a Western arms embargo that has been in place since 2014.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's Ministry of Defense has proposed changes to military medical examination rules that would simplify the conscription of individuals with psychosis, hypertension, and syphilis.
ISW: Russian forces continued to suffer high losses in January 2025 despite a slower rate of advance as compared with previous months in late 2024.
Reuters: Ukraine brought home 12 children forcefully taken by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said late on Monday.
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AFP: Trump said Monday he wants to negotiate an agreement with Ukraine whereby Kyiv supplies the United States with rare earth minerals, which are used in electronics, in exchange for American aid.
Reuters: U.S. shipments of weapons into Ukraine were briefly paused in recent days before resuming over the weekend as the Trump administration debated its policy towards Kyiv.
The Moscow Times: Raiffeisen Bank’s clients include firms supplying the Russian military as it continues to wage war on Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing bank statements and other documents it obtained.
LRT: An employee of Optogama, one of Lithuania’s largest laser manufacturers, secretly sold lasers to Russian defence industry institutes.
The Kyiv Independent: The United Kingdom will provide more military support to Ukraine in 2025 than it ever has before, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Feb. 3.
Reuters: All 16 warehouses of Russia's largest warehouse owner have been handed over to the Russian state, the company, Emirati-owned Raven Russia said, citing a court decision that it labelled as unlawful and groundless.
Reuters: A Russian court has ruled to grant the lawsuit filed by the General Prosecutor's Office to transfer all assets of Rodnie Polya, once the country's leading grain trader, to the state.
Reuters: A Moscow court has given Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, temporary control of all key services at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, court documents showed, an effective state seizure of the country's third-largest airport.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has preliminarily identified the decapitated Ukrainian service member whose photos were circulated online by Russian sources, said Artur Dobroserdov, the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, on Feb. 3.
The Guardian: UK’s Keir Starmer stopped using a personal email account when he was opposition leader after being warned about a suspected hack by a Russian group, it has been reported.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is already using laser technologies to hit Russian targets, Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, said in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty published on Feb. 3.
Reuters: Moldova on Monday denounced what it said was a violation of its airspace by a drone and said it was discussing with its allies how to boost air defences.
Politico: The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has recorded an "alarming rise" in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by the Russian armed forces during the war in recent months, it said on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on Feb. 3 named Ukraine's operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast and strikes against military facilities deep inside Russian territory as Kyiv's key battlefield priorities.
CNN: The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian state media.
Reuters: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seen by Russia as possible venues for a summit between Trump and Putin.
The Kyiv Independent: The Security Service of Ukraine said on Feb. 3 that it had prevented a sabotage attempt on a railway in Rivne Oblast, arresting a 23-year-old man allegedly working for Russian intelligence services.
AP News: A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short.
Reuters Special Report: While Biden sped up deliveries after the U.S. election, his final year in office was largely marked by delays caused by congressional inaction and months-long internal debates.
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