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Reuters: Ukraine's air force said on Tuesday that it had destroyed a major Russia landing ship stationed in the Crimean waters, after the Russian-installed governor of Crimea said that Kyiv's assault sparked a fire in the port of Feodosia.
AP News: The president of Belarus said Monday that Russia has completed its shipments of tactical nuclear weapons to his country, an initiative that raised strong concerns in neighboring Poland and elsewhere in the region.
Reuters: Text of a draft law posted on the website of Ukraine's parliament late on Monday proposed lowering the age of those who can be mobilized for combat duty to 25 from 27.
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Reuters: Russian and Belarusian equestrian athletes will not be able to participate at the 2024 Paris Olympics, even as neutral athletes, the sport's global governing body said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces struck a third humanitarian aid center in Kherson within five days, the head of the emergency response unit for the Ukrainian Red Cross in Kherson Oblast Mykola Taranenko said.
Ukrainska Pravda: Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for the Joint Press Centre of the Tavriia Defence Forces, has refuted the Russian propaganda claim that Russian forces have captured the city of Marinka in Donetsk Oblast.
Reuters: Members of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) have signed a fully-fledged free trade agreement with Iran, Russia's economy ministry and the EEU said on Monday.
Ukraine received USD 1.34 billion as the Sixth Additional Financing under the World Bank's PEACE project.
The Independent: Ukrainians are landing at UK airports only to discover that their travel documents and host families are fake.
Novaya-Europe: The majority of former Wagnerites who reoffend avoid jail time and tend to receive suspended sentences, fines, or community service unless the crime resulted in someone’s death, according to Verstka.
Reuters: Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him for nearly three weeks.
AP News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday hailed the shooting down of two Russian fighter jets on Christmas Eve and said “this Christmas sets the right mood for the entire year ahead.”
ERR: The Latvian government has given Ukraine nearly 300 cars that used to be owned by drunk driving offenders. Another 34 vehicles will be delivered soon.
Kyiv Post: Sources in military intelligence confirmed the poisoning of Anton Krasovsky, a former presenter and director of RT who called for the genocide of Ukrainians.
AFP: Russia on Monday accused Western countries of fomenting tensions in Serbia, a Moscow-friendly Balkan nation rocked by protests over alleged fraud in elections held on December 17.
Reuters: Russia said on Monday that emergency workers had put out a fire on a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship and the state company which runs the vessel said there had been no casualties and no threat to the security of the reactor.
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