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Euractiv: A recent poll shows that 17% of Slovak citizens want Russia to win the ongoing war in Ukraine, a figure far higher than in neighbouring countries. The same sentiment was expressed by only 4% of Poles and 7% of Czechs, the researchers at the Central European Digital Media Observatory found.
Reuters: North Korean ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine by Russian forces since late December have been far more precise than salvos of the weapons launched over the past year.
FT: The sanctioned billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven have sold their stakes in Russia’s largest private lender and its insurance arm, as they attempt to overturn EU sanctions against them (archive).
ISW: The Kremlin continues to prioritize domestic political stability over efforts to mitigate economic pressure and labor shortages.
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The Kyiv Independent: Funds that US Congress approved for weapons packages to Ukraine during the Biden administration are nearly empty, with most weapons already in Ukraine.
OCCRP: A Russian company with a history of selling grain from occupied areas of Ukraine exported over 20,000 tons of wheat that unloaded in Egypt last month after re-routing from Syria, documents obtained by OCCRP show.
Reuters: Russian attacks on Wednesday killed two people near the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region and one near the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials said.
NBC News: Trump’s advisers and Cabinet members are split over how much pressure to bring to bear, with national security adviser Mike Waltz and Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg wanting to use American leverage to prod Putin to stand down.
The Kyiv Independent: The next Ramstein-format summit of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will take place on Feb. 12 under the chairmanship of the U.K. instead of the U.S., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on Feb. 5.
The Moscow Times: The Russian Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates to their highest level in two decades has so far failed to slow rising inflation, the regulator acknowledged in a bulletin published Wednesday.
Reuters: Ukraine and other European nations have the potential to buy and store liquefied natural gas from the United States in Ukraine and this could strengthen Europe's energy security as gas transits from Russia end, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.
AP News: Ukraine wants to collaborate with partner countries on postwar projects worth billions of dollars not just in mining rare earth elements, but also in energy and construction sectors to help rebuild the country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Union will receive a second tranche of 2 billion euros from profits generated by frozen Russian Central Bank assets that are meant for Ukraine and its war effort.
AFP: Russia and Ukraine each said on Wednesday that 150 of their captured soldiers had been returned in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange between the two warring countries.
Reuters: Ukraine accused Russian spies of orchestrating multiple bomb attacks on its draft offices, as officials reported a new explosion on Wednesday that killed one person and hurt four more at a conscription centre in the west of the country.
Politico: German investigators believe that a wave of car vandalism across Germany, initially blamed on radical climate activists, is actually part of a Russian-orchestrated sabotage campaign, according to a Spiegel report published Wednesday.
Bloomberg: Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow’s shadow fleet (archive).
Reuters: Ukraine's military will create robotic vehicle units to deploy at the front, the defence minister said on Wednesday, as Kyiv and Moscow vie to gain a technological advantage over their enemy after nearly three years of vicious fighting.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces struck a Russian oil facility in Krasnodar Krai and a Buk air defense system in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast overnight on Feb. 5, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said.
The Moscow Times: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will disconnect from the Russian power grid on Saturday, severing Soviet-era energy ties with their neighbor to the east.
Bloomberg: Norway sees a growing threat of sabotage attempts by Russian intelligence services, including against the energy infrastructure in western Europe’s largest fossil-fuels exporter (archive).
Reuters: Britain's foreign minister David Lammy, in a visit to Ukraine on Wednesday, will announce a further 55 million pounds ($68.7 million) in financial support to help put it in the "strongest position possible".
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