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Reuters: European opposition to Trump's bid to acquire Greenland and his proposed "Board of Peace" initiative has disrupted plans for an economic support package for postwar Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Yahoo News, AFP: Russia's interior minister began a visit to ally Cuba on Tuesday, a show of solidarity after Trump warned that the island's longtime communist government "is ready to fall."
The Kyiv Independent: Eleven people were injured in an overnight attack in Russia's Republic of Adygea, while a separate drone strike sparked a fire at an oil refinery in neighboring Krasnodar Krai, local authorities and media reported Jan. 21.
ISW: Russian forces are using training missiles to strike ground targets in Ukraine, possibly by equipping them with live warheads.
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Reuters: A Russian air attack cut power to more than one million Kyiv residents and impacted substations carrying power from Ukraine's atomic plants on Tuesday, prompting Ukraine to warn that Moscow was using the risk of nuclear disaster as a tool of coercion.
Politico: A sanctions loophole that allows British planes to fill up with jet fuel made using Russian oil must be closed without delay, a senior MP has warned. Liam Byrne, Labour MP and chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee, said that every month that passes without the U.K. implementing a promised ban “risks tens of millions of pounds still flowing to Russia’s war effort” against Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukraine's new defence minister promised a sweeping, data-driven overhaul of Europe's largest military to reward commanders achieving results on the battlefield and give Ukrainian forces the upper hand against Russia's bigger and better-equipped army.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has restored external power supply after a temporary outage caused by Russia's latest mass attack on energy infrastructure, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Jan. 20.
Reuters: Belarusian dictator Lukashenko signed an agreement on Tuesday to join Trump's Board of "Peace", the latest step in a rapprochement with Washington after years of international isolation.
Defense Express: Automobile manufacturer Renault will produce strike drones in collaboration with defense company Turgis Gaillard. The drones, codenamed Chorus, are French counterparts to the long-range Shahed drones used by Russia.
The Insider: The administration of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics will be offering students who are facing expulsion for academic failure the option of signing a contract with Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow expects the United States to free the Russian crew members aboard a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by Washington in the Atlantic earlier this month.
The Moscow Times: The Russian government has scrapped its first attempt to sell Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport by auction when only a little-known businessman from the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya applied but failed to take part in the bidding.
Reuters: A Russian court sentenced a U.S. citizen to five years in jail for crossing the border with a weapon when he sailed from the United States to meet a Russian woman he met over the Internet. The man, identified as Charles Wayne Zimmerman, pleaded guilty but told the court that the weapon was stored on his yacht for self-defence and he had not been aware of the Russian law.
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