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Reuters: Two Russian missiles struck a hotel late on Wednesday in the centre of Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, injuring 11 people, one person seriously, the regional governor said.
Bloomberg: The US wants Ukraine to sharpen its plan for fighting Russia’s invasion as the war heads into its third year and is expected to raise the issue with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Davos next week (archive).
ISW: The Kremlin’s effort to use the mythos of the Great Patriotic War (Second World War) to prepare the Russian public for a long war in Ukraine is at odds with Russia’s current level of mobilization and Putin’s rhetorical attempts to reassure Russians that the war will not have lasting domestic impacts.
WP: Senate negotiators working on a deal to fund Ukraine in exchange for border policy reforms are homing in on the hardest part of the process this week, one that pits Democrats and Republicans against each other over the president’s power to allow migrants into the country using an authority known as parole (archive).
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NATO allies in a meeting with Ukraine have made it clear they will continue to provide the country with major military, economic, and humanitarian aid in the face of Russia’s almost two-year-old invasion, NATO said on Wednesday.
Reuters: Russia's foreign ministry summoned the Moldovan ambassador on Wednesday and issued a protest against "unfriendly acts" in the latest of a series of jabs exchanged between the Kremlin and the ex-Soviet state's pro-European authorities.
USA Today: Three elite Russian fencers who fled the country after Russia invaded Ukraine are seeking to become U.S. citizens in time to represent America at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Interfax-Ukraine: Russian occupiers continue to attempt an offensive along the entire frontline, but all of them remain unsuccessful, Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny said, following the results of several days of work in the responsibility zone of Khortytsia operational-strategic group.
Reuters: The United States and its allies on Wednesday condemned what they described as Russia's firing of North Korean missiles at Ukraine, with Washington calling it abhorrent and Seoul calling Ukraine a test site for Pyongyang's nuclear-capable missiles.
AP News: Belarus state television reported Wednesday that authorities sent a recently arrived group of Ukrainian children from occupied Ukraine to train with the Belarusian military to learn how to evacuate in the event of a fire.
France 24: NATO members Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania will sign this week a preliminary agreement on demining the Black Sea, officials said on Wednesday.
Reuters: United Nations agencies will next week ask for $3.1 billion to finance aid to Ukraine this year, a senior humanitarian official official told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The Italian parliament's lower house voted in favor of prolonging defense assistance for Ukraine as the besieged country braces for another year of war with Russia, Italian media reported.
Reuters: Pope Francis is concerned that international attention is shifting away from the nearly two-year-old Russian war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian eastern-rite Catholic Church said on Wednesday.
The Insider: China is the main conduit through which Western technology reaches Russia and continues to power Moscow’s war machine against Ukraine, a months-long investigation has found.
Novaya-Europe: How propaganda has led millions of Russians to believe that war is the surest path to peace: an investigation by dekoder, Novaya Gazeta Europe, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Reuters: Finland will extend the closure of its border with Russia, which had otherwise been set to end on Jan. 15, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sari Essayah told national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.
AP News: Ukraine has shown the world that Russia’s military can be stopped, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday as he began a visit to the Baltic nations in search of more help for his country against the Kremlin’s larger and better-supplied forces in the 22-month-old invasion.
The Kyiv Independent: Lithuania continues to support Ukraine in its all-out war with Russia, as its government had approved long-term support of 200 million euros, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Jan. 10 during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Reuters: Ukrainian leaders pitched for India to help rebuild its war-ravaged economy on Wednesday at a business summit organised by India primarily to seek inward global investment.
CNN: Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has made his first court appearance from the Siberian penal colony he was moved to late last month.
Euronews: A Kremlin’s propaganda film about the Ukraine war which completely flopped at the box office in Russia last year is now scheduled to be screened in Italy by the end of the month, despite sparking a huge backlash.
Reuters: The time has come for diplomacy to pave the way for peace between Russia and Ukraine, Italy's defence minister said on Wednesday, adding that firm Western support for Kyiv was crucial to ensure serious negotiations.
worth mentioning
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