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Russia stands by 2% of GDP budget deficit plan after huge Jan shortfall

Russia's finance ministry is sticking with plans to post a budget deficit of no more than 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, despite towering spending and slumping energy revenues contributing to a huge shortfall in January.

Reuters

Liz Truss: learn lessons of Russian aggression and stand up to China now

Ms Truss was speaking in Japan in her first public speech since her resignation as prime minister.

The Independent UK

What nuclear weapons does Russia have?

Vladimir Putin has access to largest stockpile in the world

The Independent UK

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Ukraine war exposes splits between Global North and South

Over the past year, most Global South countries adopted a position of studied neutrality on the war in Ukraine. Their self-interest over the principles of international law and stability ended up serving Russian interests and regional tyrants, but not their citizens, who comprise most of the world’s population.

France 24

Russians switch to used cars as sanctions pummel auto sector

Spending on new cars in Russia more than halved last year as the auto industry felt the full force of Western sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine, with production plunging, prices soaring and buyers switching to cheaper used models.

Reuters

Facebook ran ads in Moldova for oligarch sanctioned by US

Facebook allowed a Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads on its platform urging protests against that country's government — even though he and his political party are subject to U.S. sanctions

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy says it is ‘obvious’ Putin will not stop with Ukraine; Macron calls for more military support – as it happened

Zelenskiy speaks at Munich security conference as Scholz, Macron and Kamala Harris are in Germany; French leader says Ukraine needs more support

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External backers pour billions into Ukraine to counter war damage

Pictures of devastation in Ukraine following Russia's invasion have sparked urgent questions over how its reconstruction can be paid for. But before they can even begin to be answered, Kyiv is seeking billions just to ride out this year.

Reuters

Kyiv and Moscow Are Fighting Two Different Wars

What the war in Ukraine has revealed about contemporary conflict.

Foreign Affairs

Ukraine news – live: Russian forces close in on Bakhmut as leaders meet in Munich

International community will call on Putin once again to end the war

The Independent UK

Ukrainian troops holding Bakhmut line demand weapons as world powers meet

Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe.

Reuters

South Africa's naval exercise with Russia, China raises Western alarm

By Carien du Plessis

Reuters

Russia eyes Bakhmut's capture by April as NATO ramps up military equipment for Ukraine

Russia rains missiles across Ukraine, striking its largest oil refinery, Kyiv says, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicts the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would fall by April.

ABC News

Zelenskiy to Munich leaders: we need weapons fast to beat 'Goliath' Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged allies to speed up sending weapons to defeat the Russian invasion, telling global leaders assembled in Munich that dithering and delays also threatened their security.

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The Independent UK

Security experts warn of foreign cyber threat to 2024 voting

Top state election and cybersecurity officials are warning about the threat posed by Russia and other foreign adversaries ahead of the 2024 elections

Reuters

Ukraine prosecutor says probes Russian killing of civilians in Bakhmut

Russian Grad rockets and barrel artillery slammed into a residential district in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Thursday, killing three men and two women and wounding nine more, Ukraine's prosecutor general said, adding it was being investigated as a war crime.

The Independent UK

Senior Russian military official ‘plunges 16 storeys to her death falling from window’

Body of finance director of Western Military District found on pavement on Wednesday morning

Bangkok Post

Steel makers wary of Russian product dumping

Thai steel manufacturers are worried about an influx of cheap steel products from Russia into Thai and Asean markets, following sanctions on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

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U.S. curbs slowly crippling Russia's military - official

A top U.S. trade official said on Thursday that export controls placed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine have slowly reduced the supply of materials that Moscow can use to rebuild its war machine.

Reuters

Zelenskiy urges film stars at Berlinale to take sides and support Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged filmmakers to take sides in what he termed a battle between freedom and tyranny, drawing a parallel in his speech opening the Berlin Film Festival between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Berlin Wall.

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: how the conflict might unfold in its second year

Almost exactly a year ago – on February 17 2022 – we published a story by David Galbreath, an expert in international security from the University of Bath. In it he pointed to the fact that – despite the Kremlin’s repeated assurances to the contrary – an invasion of Ukraine…

Al Jazeera

Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, eyes Bakhmut capture in April

Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin says ‘bureaucracy’ has held Russia back and predicts Bakhmut will fall by April.

Reuters

In England's north, Ukraine's civilians become soldiers

Hundreds of Ukrainian men charged across windswept northern England in army drills on Thursday, some of more than 10,000 sent to Britain over the last year to turn them into soldiers in the war against Russia.

Reuters

Russia expels four Austrian diplomats in tit-for-tat move

Russia said on Thursday it was expelling four Austrian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after Vienna expelled four Russian diplomats in a case which appeared to be related to spying.

The Independent UK

With eye on Russia, Greece and Bulgaria expand gas deal

The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria have announced plans to expand natural gas cooperation with a deal that could help other countries in the region lower their dependence on Russian energy

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