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Iran modifies its drones supplied to Russia to inflict maximum damage on Ukraine's energy infrastructure -- Long-range weapons, fighter jets for Ukraine seems resolvable -- Kremlin continues to prepare defense industrial base for a protracted war -- Our readers’ questions about the war, answered -- Several European countries ready to provide Ukraine with fighter jets -- EU calls on Russia to stop ‘absurd' claims of victimhood in war against Ukraine -- and more

UK to look into sending combat planes to Ukraine -- Russia rushes to launch offensive in Donbas without sufficient combat power -- Russia threatens 'consequences' if UK gives jets to Ukraine -- Macron says Ukraine can count on France to win this war -- SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink Internet for drones -- Ukraine's envoy to UN denounces Roger Waters as ‘another brick in the wall’ of Moscow propaganda -- and more

Kremlin-linked group arranges payments to European politicians to support Russia’s annexation of Crimea -- Rostec buys Western parts for electronic warfare bypassing sanctions -- RFE/RL identifies leadership of Russian unit responsible for shelling Mykolaiv Oblast -- Russia boosts disinformation efforts in Germany, US amid new arms shipments to Ukraine -- and more

Arming Ukraine won’t escalate war. Reluctance to do so will -- Ukraine's intelligence denies Russian claims of substantial success east -- Russian Gazprom to create its own private military company -- Nordic countries oppose Russian, Belarusian athletes’ Olympics participation -- Netherlands, Denmark to join Germany in sending Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine -- and more

Kharkiv Oblast's hospital catches fire following Russian shelling -- Russia shells Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, damaging houses, civilian infrastructure -- Ukrainian forces hit 13 Russian military positions -- Intelligence says Russia may mobilize up to 500,000 troops -- and more

Russia plots revenge attack in February for last year's defeats -- Bakhmut "increasingly isolated" as key roads come under Russian fire control -- Russia burns Ukrainian books in occupied Luhansk Oblast -- Ukraine returns two children forcibly sent to Russia -- Arming Ukraine is the fastest, and only path to peace -- and more

Russian proxies discuss forcibly sending children in Luhansk Oblast to Republic of Karelia -- Military installations in Russia are legitimate targets -- Germany has evidence of Russia’s war crimes cases in three-digit range -- Russia ‘threw its full strength’ into encircling Bakhmut -- Portugal to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine -- and more

Anti-personnel landmine explosion injures 7 teenagers in Izuim, Kharkiv Oblast -- Nearly 30,000 Russian soldiers in and around Mariupol -- Russian Wagner Group's supply of convicts for war in Ukraine significantly reduced -- EU will work to allocate 1 billion euros for Ukraine’s reconstruction -- and more

North Korea intends to send personnel to Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts -- Putin claims Russia ready to draw on entire arsenal as Germany sends tanks to Ukraine -- Russia abducts high school students from occupied Luhansk Oblast -- Intelligence warns Russia preparing for massive offensive to capture Donbas by March -- and more

Russian missile strike on residential building in Kramatorsk kills at least 3, injures at least 21 -- Russia prepares offensives in several areas -- EU to train 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers -- US uncovers global sanctions evasion network helping Russia’s defense sector -- Russia acquiring many features of dictatorship -- and more

NATO countries should supply Ukraine with all the weapons it needs -- Russian forces plan concentrated assault near Pavlivka, Vuhledar -- France to provide more radar systems, missiles, artillery to Ukraine -- Delivery of F-16 aircraft to Ukraine not ruled out despite Biden's 'no' -- and more

How Western companies make a fortune on brokering deals for Ukraine -- Slidstvo.Info identifies Russian soldiers killed in New Year strike on Makiivka -- Ukrainian lawmakers vacation, live in Dubai amid war -- and more