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AP News: For the first time since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin established the international group to support Ukraine in April 2022, the United States will host the monthly gathering of about 50 countries out of money, unable to send the ammunition and missiles that Ukraine needs to fend off Russia.
BBC News: Australia imposed cybersecurity sanctions for the first time on a Russian hacker over his role in the breach of healthcare insurer Medibank Private Ltd. that exposed the sensitive private data of millions of Australians.
ISW: Russia continues to weaponize its position on the United Nations Security Council to propagate several long-standing Russian information operations.
CNN: Russia’s relentless ‘meat assaults’ are wearing down outmanned and outgunned Ukrainian forces.
The Insider: Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry has demanded that “Russia's supervisory body” check the legality of the actions of law enforcement officials who forced Kyrgyz workers to duck walk during a raid in Yekaterinburg.
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The Kyiv Independent: European Union foreign ministers have reached a political agreement to finalize the work on transferring revenues from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine based on the proposal suggested in December.
AP News: Senate negotiators were laboring Monday to win wide support for a deal on border policy as they entered what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican votes to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine.
Yonhap News Agency: South Korea's top envoy to the U.N. renewed Seoul's criticism of arms transactions between North Korea and Russia during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday.
Reuters: It is unclear if Belgium will use the option in an upcoming European Union law to block imports of Russian liquefied natural gas, Belgium's energy minister said on Monday.
CNN: After close to two years of conflict, the global diamond market is set to feel the full consequences of the war in Ukraine.
RTE: Ahead of the UN Security Council meeting, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations, flanked by the envoys of 47 member states, gave a statement on the hypocrisy of Russia for calling a meeting on defensive weapon inflows to Ukraine when Russia was importing arms from Iran and North Korea for its attack on Ukraine.
AFP: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will visit Ukraine on Wednesday, his administration said, amidst difficult ties between the countries after Fico's criticism of the war-torn neighbour.
POLITICO: Kyiv has dismissed urgings by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico that Ukraine give up territory to the country’s Russian invaders.
Ukrainian MoD: Belgium will provide Ukraine with €611 million in military aid this year, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
AP News: Putin’s campaign staff on Monday presented scores of boxes filled with signed petitions supporting his run in the March presidential election, a vote in which he’s almost certain to win another term in office.
Reuters: The leaders of Poland and Ukraine pledged on Monday to tackle political disputes that have hampered their critical wartime alliance and boost defence cooperation as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds towards its third year.
AFP: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday said that the war between Ukraine and Russia was a fight "between good and evil" in a visit to Kyiv to show support, almost two years into Moscow's invasion.
Bloomberg: European Union leaders are ready to play hardball with Hungary if Prime Minister Viktor Orban should continue to block a €50 billion support package for Ukraine at an extraordinary summit next week, people familiar with the preparations said (archive).
Reuters: U.S. tech giant Apple has paid a Russian fine of 1.2 billion roubles ($13.65 million), imposed over the company's alleged abuse of its dominant market position concerning in-app payments, Russia's FAS antitrust agency said on Monday.
South China Morning Post: China should be on the alert this year for potential moves by Russia to stir up trouble at its doorstep, a prominent Chinese political analyst has warned, while urging Beijing to carefully manage its ties with Washington (archive).
Reuters: Britain partially eased its travel guidance for western regions of Ukraine on Monday, citing the country's strong air defences against Russian attacks.
The Moscow Times: At least four people who protested the jailing of prominent Bashkir activist Fayil Alsynov could face up to 15 years in prison on charges of mass rioting in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan.
Reuters: The war in Ukraine has dented Russia's confidence in its conventional forces and increased the importance to Moscow of non-strategic nuclear weapons as a means of deterring and defeating NATO in a potential future conflict, a leading Western think-tank said on Monday.
AFP: Moscow will be asked to explain at the UN on Monday what has happened to thousands of Ukrainian children believed to have been forcibly sent to Russia since its 2022 invasion.
Reuters: Russian energy company Novatek is likely to resume large-scale operations at its Ust-Luga processing complex and Baltic Sea terminal within weeks, following a suspected drone attack seen disrupting naphtha flows to Asia, analysts said on Monday.
worth mentioning
Turkish parliament to vote Tuesday on Sweden's NATO membership
UN opens Russian bank account to enable rouble transactions, says Russia's Sovcombank
Russian billionaire exploring possible sale of French soccer club Monaco
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