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Reuters: European Union leaders will seek on Thursday to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to join a plan to offer stable financing to Ukraine, but they are also ready to provide the cash to Kyiv without Hungary if their arguments fail.
ISW: Ukrainian forces struck Russian targets in the vicinity of Belbek airfield in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea on January 31.
Reuters: A Russian bomb struck a hospital in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, smashing windows and equipment and prompting the evacuation of dozens of patients, regional officials said.
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Reuters: The European Commission will start informal high-level meetings with member states on Saturday on the details of a proposed new set of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, three diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
CEPA: The Slovak election showed Russian interference in Western democracies is ramping up, threatening to sow distrust across Europe. There is an urgent need for NATO member states to act.
The Kyiv Independent: Three Moldovan companies continued to supply aircraft parts worth around $15 million to Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, despite European sanctions, RFE/RL Moldova reported on Jan. 31.
Meduza: All the members of anti-war Russian-Belarusian band Bi-2 who were detained in a Bangkok immigration detention center have been deported to Israel, the group’s lawyer told Meduza.
AP News: The leaders of five European Union countries urged their neighbors and allies Wednesday to ramp up military support for Ukraine, while the bloc’s defense ministers debated ways to help meet the war-ravaged country’s ammunition shortfall. In their appeal, the leaders of the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany and the Netherlands warned that Europe’s security is tied to the fighting that started almost two years ago.
The Moscow Times: Russian authorities are taking steps to hinder voting by its citizens living abroad in the upcoming presidential election, in what some observers call a move to restrict votes cast by anti-war emigres.
Reuters: Judges at the top U.N. court on Wednesday found that Russia violated elements of a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
UK House of Lords issued a report on Jan. 31 condemning the "incomprehensible" failure of the government to spend frozen funds from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's sale of Chelsea football club on aid for Ukraine.
POLITICO: The European Union has sent €28 billion worth of military aid to Kyiv so far and committed about €21.2 billion more for this year, according to an internal document prepared by the European Commission and the EU diplomatic body and seen by POLITICO.
The Moscow Times: Turkish and Chinese companies have helped Russia replenish its dwindling stocks of ammunition by exporting large volumes of a key component used to produce gunpowder, the Moscow Times’ Russian service reported Wednesday, citing customs data.
AFP: The European Union will supply Ukraine with just over half of the one million artillery shells it promised to send by March, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.
Reuters: Russia and Ukraine said on Wednesday they had completed another large prisoner exchange despite the crash last week of a Russian military transport plane. The Russian Defence Ministry said each side had received 195 soldiers, while Ukraine said it had got 207 people back.
AFP: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Wednesday to do everything to rally European partners to cobble together support for Ukraine "so huge" that Putin would not be able to see it ease over time.
AP News: Russia is set to host Serbia for a friendly in Moscow in March for its first men’s national team soccer game against a European opponent since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Reuters: Turkey and Ukraine signed an accord that will allow Turkish construction firms to take part in the reconstruction of Ukrainian infrastructure damaged amid Russia's invasion, the two countries said on Wednesday.
AFP: Ukraine orchestrated another drone attack on an oil facility deep inside Russian territory, a Ukrainian military intelligence source told AFP Wednesday, following official reports of an "incident" in Saint Petersburg.
Reuters: Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday gave its final approval to a new law that would allow the authorities to confiscate property from people convicted of deliberately spreading 'fake news' about the army.
POLITICO: There’s more than one. As the European Parliament investigates a Latvian lawmaker suspected of being a Russian spy, her co-nationals in the chamber are warning there are others like her.
Reuters: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed measures to limit agricultural imports from Ukraine and offer greater flexibility on rules for fallow land in a bid to quell protests by angry farmers in France and other EU members.
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