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The Kyiv Independent: The European Parliament will vote later this week on a resolution that calls for stripping Hungary of its voting rights at the European Council, Member of the European Parliament Petri Sarvamaa said on Jan. 16.

Reuters: Ukraine's border authorities said Polish truck drivers who had been blocking three crossings on the Polish-Ukrainian border lifted all blockades, allowing traffic to pass freely.

CNBC: Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday described Ukraine’s refusal to cede ground to Russia in prospective peace talks as “perfectly understandable.”

CBC: Canada named more than 100 institutions in China, Russia and Iran which it says represent the "highest risk to Canada's national security." The government says the listed institutions are connected to those countries' militaries and state security agencies.

Defense News: The defense minister of Belarus said Tuesday that the country will put forth a new military doctrine that for the first time provides for the use of nuclear weapons.

Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West on Tuesday to tighten sanctions pressure on Putin and to step up its support for Kyiv to ensure that Moscow did not succeed in its war.

AP News: The leaders of Hungary and Slovakia on Tuesday said they agree on the need to rework a European Union plan to provide financial assistance to Ukraine. It’s a potential boon to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who last month derailed EU efforts to approve the funding for the war-ravaged country.

BBC News: A humanitarian worker who evacuated civilians from the Ukraine conflict was unlawfully killed, a coroner has found. Christopher Parry, 28, died in January 2023 from gunshot wounds to the head and torso, an inquest heard.

Bloomberg: Latvia’s defense chief said the Baltic nation is making progress in assembling a coalition of almost 20 countries to arm Ukrainian forces with “thousands” of new unmanned aerial vehicles (archive).

AFP: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday told the Davos summit that Putin would pursue his invasion of Ukraine even if fighting paused on the sprawling front.

The Kyiv Independent: Brussels is conducting an audit of how much weaponry European Union members have supplied to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in response to claims that some countries have failed to provide as much as they could, the Financial Times reported.

POLITICO: Estonian authorities have detained a Russian academic in Tartu suspected of espionage aimed against the country. Viacheslav Morozov has been working as a professor of international political theory at the University of Tartu since 2010.

The Kyiv Independent: Estonia will stop funding Russian-language education, the Estonian parliament announced on Jan. 15, citing Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.

Reuters: The West must not let up supplying Ukraine with weapons and money if it wants Kyiv to succeed in its war against Russia, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen warned on Tuesday.

CNBC: An increasingly isolated Russia is now dependent on China for both its military and economic ends, the European Commission’s president said Tuesday.

The Moscow Times: Authorities in Ukraine's northeast region of Kharkiv on Tuesday urged residents of more than two dozen villages near the front line to evacuate, citing worsening Russian attacks in the area.

The Kyiv Independent: The Romanian Agriculture Ministry agreed to meet several of the demands of the Romanian farmers who have been blocking the country's major roads and two crossings on the border with Ukraine, Euractiv reported on Jan. 16.

Reuters: German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Tuesday he aimed to convince policymakers in Davos to join Germany's efforts to provide companies with investment guarantees in Ukraine as part of reconstruction efforts.

Meduza: Russia’s next presidential election is in exactly two months. According to Meduza’s sources, it’s not just the winner the authorities have selected in advance — they also have a runner-up in mind.

The Moscow Times: China’s state-owned banks are tightening curbs on funding to Russian clients after the US authorized secondary sanctions on overseas financial firms that aid Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.

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