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Reuters: Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine includes proposals to restore Russian energy flows to Europe, major U.S. investment in Russian rare earths and energy, and tapping frozen Russian sovereign assets, the Wall Street Journal said. The newspaper said the plans were detailed in appendices to peace proposals handed to European counterparts over recent weeks.
Politico: As a frontline NATO heavyweight, Poland is seething at being relegated to the diplomatic sidelines on a potential peace deal in Ukraine.
Reuters: U.S. nuclear-capable bombers flew over the Sea of Japan alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian drills in the skies and seas around Japan and South Korea.
ISW: The Kremlin is setting information conditions to reject any meaningful security guarantees for Ukraine by threatening Europe.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in Poltava Oblast overnight on Dec. 11 with a barrage of missiles and drones. Kremenchuk, located on the banks of the Dnipro River, lies approximately 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Kyiv.
The Kyiv Independent: A drone attack caused a large fire at a chemical plant in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod overnight on Dec. 11, according to regional authorities and several monitoring Telegram channels.
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AP News: The European Union’s enlargement chief said Wednesday she is confident Hungary will not derail Ukraine’s path to membership, which she described as “inevitable.”
Reuters: Ukrainian forces were fending off an unusually large Russian mechanised attack inside the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, a battle taking place as the U.S. presses for an agreement to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
CNN: Ukraine struck an oil tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea on Wednesday, according to an official in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). A Ukrainian security source told CNN that Sea Baby maritime drones were used in a joint operation by the SBU and the navy. It was the third attack against Russian tankers in two weeks.
Reuters: Shell wants to dissolve a joint venture with Russia's Rosneft, through which the London-listed group holds part of its stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
Reuters: Russian prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to seize the assets of U.S. private equity fund NCH Capital in Russia, saying the fund's owners financed Ukraine's military forces.
The Guardian: Leaders of the “coalition of the willing” group of nations will hold a video call on Thursday as chaotic American efforts to push through a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine reach a crunch moment.
Reuters: The leaders of Britain, France and Germany held a call on Wednesday with Trump to discuss Washington's latest peace efforts to end the war in Ukraine, in what they said was "a critical moment" in the process.
RFE/RL: European Union ambassadors on December 10 decided on further sanctions against Russia, with a new package adding several individuals and entities to its sprawling blacklist adopted in response to the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago.
Reuters: European Union countries' ambassadors on Wednesday greenlit the bloc's plan to phase out Russian gas imports by late 2027, a spokesperson for Denmark's EU presidency said, clearing one of the final legal hurdles before the ban can pass into law.
Bloomberg: Microchip manufacturers Intel, AMD and Texas Instruments were accused in a series of lawsuits of failing to keep their technology out of Russian-made weapons used to kill and wound civilians in Ukraine (archive).
RFE/RL: Amid steps to expand its control over online communications, the Russian government has unveiled a new package of digital security measures that would sharply restrict incoming phone calls from outside the country.
The Kyiv Independent: The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a ship from Russia's "shadow fleet" that illegally transported agricultural products from Russian-occupied Crimea, the SBU said on Dec. 10.
Reuters: Russian drones have hit the gas transport system in Ukraine's southern Odesa region, a senior Ukrainian official said on Wednesday, an area which contains several pipelines carrying U.S. liquefied natural gas to Ukraine from Greece.
Reuters: Poland is in talks to transfer MiG-29 jets to Ukraine in exchange for access to Ukrainian drone technology, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on public radio on Wednesday.
Bloomberg: Four out of India’s seven largest refiners are now in the market for Russian crude as deep discounts push buyers to seek out non-sanctioned barrels, even as heavyweight Reliance Industries Ltd. stays away (archive).
Reuters: Denmark faces more external threats than it has done in many years amid rising geopolitical conflicts and doubts over U.S. commitment to Europe's security, the NATO country's military intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
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