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Reuters: Russian forces struck Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa late on Monday and damaged port facilities and a ship, the regional governor said, the second attack on the region in less than 24 hours.

CNN: Ukrainian security services have stepped up drone and sabotage operations against Russian combat aircraft and submarines this month, in what analysts see as one way to combat incessant Russian missile strikes against cities and energy infrastructure.

AP News: Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv’s demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, although he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talks on reaching a settlement.

NBC News: Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio's clashing diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine: Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he handles security.

The Moscow Times: Russian oil prices have tumbled to their lowest levels since the pandemic after the U.S. sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, further squeezing producers already facing sharp profit declines this year.

Reuters: The Czech Republic's security council will debate the future of a Czech-led, Western-financed scheme organising artillery ammunition supplies for Ukraine on January 7, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Monday.

The Moscow Times: Russia has delivered a shipment of weapons to Madagascar’s military rulers who seized power in an October coup, the speaker of the country’s National Assembly said Monday.

The European Union has sanctioned a Russian judge and prosecutor who sentenced the director of Estonia's Narva Museum to a decade in prison in absentia.

Ukrainska Pravda: Russian forces have continued attempts to transport personnel across the Siverskyi Donets River, and the situation in the settlement of Serebrianka has been described as extremely difficult.

AP News: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.

Reuters: Russia's pipeline exports of natural gas to China are expected to have risen by a quarter this year, a source familiar with the data told Reuters on Monday, as Moscow ramps up sales to Asia and cements ties with the world's largest energy consumer.

BBC: A Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, officials have said. Russia's Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated. He is the third military official to have been killed in bomb attacks in the Russian capital over the last year.

Reuters: Swedish customs has released a Russian ship it boarded over the weekend in order to perform an inspection, with marine tracking data on Monday showing the vessel was on the move again.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian partisans set ablaze two Russian Su-30 fighter jets during an operation on the night of Dec. 21 in Russia's Lipetsk Oblast, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Dec. 22. The attack targeted an airfield near the city of Lipetsk, about 340 kilometers (210 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

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China likely loaded more than 100 ICBMs in silo fields, Pentagon report says

Founder of Russia’s far-right Espanola brigade shot dead at his dacha in occupied Crimea, Astra reports

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