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Reuters: International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva met with top Ukrainian officials in Kyiv in a surprise visit on Thursday, telling Reuters she expected to send a new $8.1 billion lending program to the Fund's board for approval in coming weeks.
ISW: The Russian military command remains committed to its false claims that Russian forces have seized Kupyansk, despite ample visual evidence and Ukrainian and Russian reporting to the contrary.
Reuters: India's Russian oil imports fell to their lowest level in two years in December, as Western sanctions pushed refiners to tap alternatives, lifting OPEC's share of imports to an 11-month high, trade data showed.
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Reuters: Macron said on Thursday that France was now providing two-thirds of intelligence information to Ukraine, largely replacing the United States, which until last year had delivered the bulk of those services.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the International Committee of the Red Cross on Jan. 15 for equaling Russia's and Ukraine's strikes on energy infrastructure.
BBC: Nato should "double down" on Arctic security to defend the region from Russian aggression, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC.
The Insider: Germany has denied the Cameroonian-flagged tanker Tavian entry into its territorial waters, according to reports by Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR. This is the first known instance of a vessel linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” being barred from the area.
Reuters: Russian forces have destroyed a large energy facility in Ukraine's second-biggest city Kharkiv, the mayor said on Thursday, the latest target of a winter air campaign by Moscow that has plunged millions of Ukrainians into darkness and cold.
Politico: A drugmaker named in an alleged corruption scandal in Cyprus has denied making any political donations to the country’s president to protect a Russian businessman from EU sanctions.
Reuters: Russia's federal budget revenues from oil and gas dropped by 24% in 2025 to the lowest level since 2020, according to Finance Ministry data, as oil prices fell while the rouble appreciated.
The Kyiv Independent: The ongoing energy crisis in Kyiv remains "extremely serious," officials said on Jan. 15, as Ukraine's Security Service said Russia's ongoing strikes against energy infrastructure amount to "crimes against humanity."
Reuters: Russia on Thursday expelled a British diplomat it said was an undeclared spy, but London said such "malicious and baseless" accusations undermined the basic conditions needed for embassies to operate and said it was considering a response.
Kyiv Post: Poland will deliver up to nine of its ageing MiG fighter jets to Ukraine to help Kyiv defend itself against Russia, a deputy defense minister has told TVP World.
worth mentioning
Dark vessels: how Russia steers clear of Western sanctions with a shadow fleet
Russia recruits drunk villagers from the north as cannon fodder on the Ukrainian front
While doctors fought for the life of a newborn girl from Crimea her mother and grandmother were sentenced to 12 years for treason
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