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Reuters: The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation process to secure new aid for Ukraine and Israel in a supplemental funding bill, a source familiar with discussions said.
ISW: Russian forces may be suffering losses along the entire front in Ukraine at a rate close to the rate at which Russia is currently generating new forces.
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group: Russia fakes trials and life sentences against Ukrainian POWs to rewrite the facts about its war crimes and destruction of Mariupol. These trials are particularly dangerous as Russia is openly using torture and unrecognized courts to deny Ukrainian defenders their rights as prisoners of war.
CNN: The exiled leader of Belarus’ democratic opposition is warning the United States that abandoning Ukraine in its fight against Russia and Putin would threaten the security of all of Eastern Europe.
FT: The EU is set to give member states powers to end gas imports from Russia and Belarus nearly two years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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BBC News: Russia has tricked several US actors on the video message platform Cameo into spreading falsehoods about Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky. The latest propaganda push was outlined in a Thursday report by Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center.
The Guardian: David Cameron has used his first trip to the US since his appointment as the UK’s foreign secretary to urge the Republican party to back Ukraine with more long-range weapons, saying the aid represented tremendous value for money.
Reuters: Kyiv has agreed with two American firms to jointly manufacture vital 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine, a Ukrainian minister said on Thursday, although production will not start for at least two years.
AFP: Ukraine urged residents to save electricity Thursday after a power plant near the front line was hit by shelling, the first such warning this winter as temperatures plunge below freezing.
Meduza: In the last two months, more than 350 recently naturalized Russian citizens have been sent to serve in the army following raids by the authorities on warehouses, construction sites, and companies in the Moscow region.
The Kyiv Independent: A branch of the pro-Russian organization "Other Ukraine," founded by the exiled Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was registered in Serbia, RFE/RL's Schemes project reported.
Reuters: The Lebanese government is believed to have purchased about 30,000 metric tons of milling wheat in a tender this week expected to be sourced from Ukraine, European traders said on Thursday.
AP News: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged $4.5 billion to Ukraine, including $1 billion in humanitarian aid to help support the war-torn country’s recovery effort in an online summit of leading industrial nations.
POLITICO: European Council chief Charles Michel warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday to immediately deal with "a list of companies" involved in supplying Russia with dual-use goods, indicating that EU countries will soon discuss whether to sanction these entities.
The Moscow Times: The families of mobilized Russian soldiers on Thursday asked President Vladimir Putin to return their loved ones from the front in Ukraine, more than a year after the men were recruited.
Reuters: The British and U.S. governments imposed sanctions on two Russian hackers on Thursday for what Britain's foreign office said was a sustained but failed attempt to interfere in politics by Russian cyber spies.
AFP: Ukraine's allies have dramatically scaled back their pledges of new aid to the country, which have fallen to their lowest level since the start of the war, the Kiel Institute's Ukraine aid tracker showed Thursday.
Australia has imposed sanctions on 13 Russian individuals in connection to the poisoning, arrest, and sentencing of the prominent Russian opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Murza.
POLITICO: Macron hosts Orbán for dinner on Thursday evening and will attempt to forge a compromise ahead of next week’s summit in Brussels. There, EU leaders are set to make a historic decision on bringing Ukraine into the 27-nation club and seal a key budget deal that would throw a €50 billion lifeline to Kyiv’s flailing war economy.
Bloomberg: Plunging oil markets drove the price of Russia’s flagship Urals crude slump below a $60-a-barrel Group of Seven-imposed cap for the time since July.
AP News: Lawmakers in Russia set the country’s 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office.
Reuters: A 14-year-old girl shot a fellow pupil dead and wounded five other people before killing herself at a school in the Russian city of Bryansk, investigators said on Thursday.
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