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POLITICO: The Pentagon has successfully tested a new long-range precision bomb for Ukraine that is expected to arrive on the battlefield as soon as Wednesday, according to a U.S. official and three other people with knowledge of the talks.

CNN: Speaker Mike Johnson privately told House Republicans the Senate’s bipartisan immigration deal has “no way forward,” according to lawmakers who attended a closed-door meeting Tuesday – the latest blow to a major national security package intended to unlock critical aid to Ukraine as Trump urges Republicans to kill it.

The Telegraph: The European Union is set to offer Ukraine a single tranche of €5 billion in weapons as part of a diluted plan to arm the war-torn nation. The bloc had previously planned to commit to a €20 billion scheme over four years to keep weaponry flowing from Europe to Kyiv.

PACE: The Committee on Political Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has adopted a draft resolution on the confiscation of Russian assets frozen in the West and their allocation to the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Bloomberg: The European Union will aim to boost ammunition deliveries to Ukraine as it tries to make up for delays in meeting an ambitious target of sending 1 million artillery rounds by March, Estonia’s defense minister said.

AFP: French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Europe's leaders to make bold and "innovative" decisions in the coming months to "accelerate" and increase their aid to Ukraine.

Reuters: Germany, the Netherlands and Poland signed a deal on Tuesday aimed at cutting red tape hampering swift cross-border movement of troops and weapons along one of the main corridors leading from the North Sea to NATO's eastern flank.

Reuters: Skate Canada is considering appealing against the International Skating Union's decision to award the Russian figure skating team bronze in the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva.

The Kyiv Independent: One of the most unexpected developments of the full-scale invasion was how many big, expensive Russian ships were taken out by Ukraine, a country that technically has no navy. This is a chronological list of the most important ships taken out so far.

Reuters: The Ukrainian region of Lviv has become the country's first to remove all its Soviet-era monuments, the governor said on Tuesday, part of a broader wartime push to erase all traces of Russian rule.

Reuters: The head of Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday he expected Russia's offensive on the eastern front line to fizzle out by early spring.

FT: Russia’s economy will expand much more rapidly this year than previously expected, according to the IMF, as Putin’s military spending feeds through into wider growth. Gross domestic product is forecast to rise 2.6 per cent this year, more than double the pace the IMF predicted as recently as October, and slightly slower than the 3 per cent expansion estimated for 2023 (archive).

Reuters: A Ukrainian military spy official said on Tuesday that Russia was showing no willingness to return the bodies of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war Moscow says died in a military plane crash in Belgorod region last week.

Reuters: Talks between European Union countries aimed at agreeing on more aid for Ukraine later this week remain "difficult", a senior EU official said on Tuesday, despite Hungary having signalled its readiness for a compromise.

WIRED: Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia's and Ukraine's militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding.

Reuters: Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group of Pacific islands if it wanted to conclude a peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War Two.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian air defenses reportedly shot down a Russian Su-34 jet over Luhansk Oblast on Jan. 29, said Andrii Kovalev, a spokesperson for the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, on national television on Jan. 30.

Reuters: European Union leaders will restate their determination to continue to provide "timely, predictable and sustainable military support" to Ukraine at a summit on Thursday, according to draft conclusions of the meeting.

Meduza: Putin and Lukashenko have signed a decree to create a joint state media company for Russia and Belarus.

WSJ: A plan to provide more artillery shells to Ukraine by having Japan send munitions to Britain has stalled, underscoring the challenge the West faces in increasing Kyiv’s stocks of the much-needed ammunition (archive).

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