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The Kyiv Independent: Four people were killed and 19 others injured in Kyiv after Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack across Ukraine overnight on Jan. 8-9.
ISW: Preliminary unconfirmed reports suggested that Russian forces may have conducted an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile strike against Lviv Oblast on the night of January 8.
NY Times: Ukraine on Thursday awarded a bid to mine a major state-owned lithium deposit to investors that include a billionaire friend of President Trump, as his administration has indicated it is looking for investment opportunities in the war-torn country (archive).
Kyiv Post: A day after Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that Trump had effectively greenlit a sweeping new sanctions package on Moscow, aides in both parties say they’re still trying to figure out exactly what he was talking about.
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The Guardian: Two oil tankers under US sanctions are sailing east through the Channel towards Russia, prompting speculation over whether the US and UK would be willing to seize further vessels linked to Moscow.
Interfax-Ukraine: The operational situation in Pokrovsk sector remains the most difficult, with approximately fifty combat clashes occurring daily. However, the northern part of Pokrovsk remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, reported Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky.
Axios: Trump's advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Wednesday in Paris with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev to discuss the U.S. plan for peace in Ukraine.
AP News: Russian drone strikes temporarily knocked out power to the entire southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine and left more than 600,000 households in the central Dnipropetrovsk region without electricity, officials said Thursday.
United24 Media: Russian forces struck apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region with two Iskander ballistic missiles, wounding 10 people, according to the head of the Ukrainian Military Administration of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkul, on January 8.
The Guardian: Forty ships accused of belonging to a large “shadow fleet” moving sanctioned oil for Venezuela and others were reflagged to Russia last year in an apparent attempt to gain Kremlin protection from American seizure.
DTEK: The Government of Republic of Croatia has agreed to supply Ukraine's DTEK with critical power equipment from decommissioned plants to help repair energy facilities damaged by more than 220 russian attacks since the full-scale invasion.
The Kyiv Independent: The Ukrainian "Kursk" Group of Forces denied on Jan. 8 that Russian forces had captured the village of Andriivka in Sumy Oblast, despite contradicting reports from the Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState a day earlier.
Reuters: Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving a three-year prison sentence in Russia for violating Moscow's foreign agent laws, has been freed as part of a prisoner exchange, French and Russian officials said on Thursday.
Kyiv Post: Ukrainian naval officials say Moscow is increasingly avoiding the Sea of Azov as shallow waters and growing Ukrainian strike reach turns Russian warships into easy targets.
Reuters: A Russia-bound oil tanker suffered a drone attack in the Black Sea that prompted it to request Turkish coastguard assistance and divert from its course, according to a notice by Lloyd's List Intelligence and a separate maritime security source on Thursday.
The Guardian: Nigel Farage has been accused of “parroting Kremlin lines” after saying that he would vote against any UK government plans to deploy the military in Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday the text of a bilateral security guarantee between Kyiv and Washington was "essentially ready" to be finalised with Trump.
Reuters: Russia said on Thursday that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be "legitimate combat targets", after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.
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