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Reuters: Ukrainian shelling injured three people in the Russian region of Belgorod late on Monday and air defences downed 10 RM-70 Vampir rockets, Russian officials and the defence ministry said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian authorities have deported and detained thousands of Ukrainian civilians and have held them without charges, trials, or access to legal counsel, the BBC's Russia Service reported.
ISW: Ukrainian forces are adapting to battlefield difficulties from equipment shortages but are struggling to completely compensate for artillery ammunition shortages and insufficient electronic warfare capabilities.
The Guardian: The odyssey of Oleksandr Ivantsov who fought with the Azov brigade and eluded Russian troops in a blockade Putin called so tight “a fly can’t get through”.
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Ukrinform: Nearly 3,000 people gathered on Monday outside the European Commission's representative office in Warsaw to call on Europe and the whole world to support Ukraine more actively in the face of Russia’s renewed massive strikes targeting Ukrainian settlements.
Reuters: White House officials met on Monday with about a dozen leaders from venture capital firms and the technology and defense industries in an effort to reinforce the Biden administration's interest in supporting Ukraine's access to cutting-edge U.S. equipment, senior administration officials said.
POLITICO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday urged other EU nations to deliver more military aid to Ukraine, saying Berlin has asked Brussels to check with countries on their planned support for Kyiv.
Euromaidan Press: Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense has obtained 100 gigabytes of classified data from the Russian enterprise Special Technological Center, a defense company under sanctions since 2016.
Reuters: Ukraine's new draft legislation on military mobilisation will not conscript women or introduce a lottery, a lawmaker said late on Monday, a day before the parliament's security committee was due to vote on what to do with the bill.
ERR: Estonia will actively start discussing military defense facilities with Latvia and Lithuania, President Alar Karis said on Monday after a routine meeting of the National Defense Council.
Reuters: Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine on Monday formally complained to the U.N. aviation council in their bid to hold Iran accountable for the downing of a passenger airliner in January 2020 that killed 176 people, they said on Monday.
NY Times: Ukrainian soldiers and commanders interviewed in recent weeks along a broad stretch of the central and eastern front said that Russian attacks were so intense that operating near the frontline has never been so dangerous (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Russia maintains a force of 19,000 soldiers on the borders with Ukraine's Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts, the spokesperson of Ukraine's northern forces, Yurii Povkh, said on Jan. 8.
Public broadcasting of Latvia: The Swedish prime minister has announced that Sweden will send troops to Latvia next year as part of a Canadian-led force to deter Russia from attack – despite not yet being a full member of Nato.
Reuters: A section of railroad near the city of Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Urals region was hit by a "bang", TASS and RBC news agencies reported on Monday, citing the transport prosecutor's office. Russian mainstream media frequently uses the term "bang" as a euphemism for a blast.
Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2024: Three wars will dominate world affairs: Russia vs. Ukraine, now in its third year; Israel vs. Hamas, now in its third month; and the United States vs. itself, ready to kick off at any moment.
AFP: Ukraine said Monday it was targeted by 51 Russian missiles in a "massive" air attack overnight, only 18 of which were shot down by its air defences.
The Moscow Times: A Russian warplane made an “emergency release” of a bomb over a city in eastern Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region, Kremlin-back authorities said Monday, marking the second instance this month of a Russian military aircraft dropping its explosive payload over a civilian area controlled by Moscow.
The Guardian: An oligarch who has supplied building materials to the Russian military machine and for construction in occupied areas of Ukraine is being assisted by Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy in his attempt to gain control of a huge Russian oil asset.
Reuters: Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, killing at least four civilians and hitting residential areas and commercial sites in its latest combined air attack, Ukrainian authorities said.
The Moscow Times: Some 300 residents of the western Russian city of Belgorod have been evacuated following a recent wave of Ukrainian strikes, authorities said Monday.
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