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Germany under growing pressure to send tanks to Ukraine

It’s amazing what the Germans can do when they put their mind to it. Prior to February 2022, the country was heavily reliant on Russian gas to heat its homes and power the mighty industries that make it the fourth-largest economy in the world. Before the war, more than half…

Evening Standard

Fighter jets, NATO, Congress and Ukraine: Complex issues roil US-Turkey relations

WASHINGTON — The United States is locked in a delicate dance with Turkey, one of its most problematic allies, that involves fighter jets, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Congress and, ultimately, the war in Ukraine.

Los Angeles Times

The Standard View: Ukraine needs western unity – and that means tanks

War is contingent on many things. Outcomes rest on a multiplicity of factors, decisions and inputs. Some are out of anyone’s control while others, such as arms supplies from allies, are not.

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Vladimir Putin's body double suffering from chronic kidney disease, wild claims suggest

Russians believe that Vladimir Putin has an army of body doubles that have stood in for him at key public appearances, including when he was driving over the Crimea Bridge in December last year, and at the funeral of a regional director

Daily Mirror

What dates are the DWP cost of living payments in 2023?

Millions of households on low incomes will receive fresh cost of living support worth up to £1,350

The Independent UK

Russia says relations with U.S. at an all-time low

Russia said on Friday that relations with the United States were at an all-time low, dismissing the idea the two sides could turn things around halfway through U.S. President Joe Biden's term in office.

Reuters

Germany has wavered on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Why does it matter?

Nato allies – including Poland and the Baltic nations who fear the spread of Russian aggression – have been pressuring Germany to allow tanks to be sent to Ukraine to defend itself

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Wagner Group: Putin’s ‘private army’ has up to 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

Military sources say the group is vying with the Russian regular army for supremacy in Putin’s chain of command

Evening Standard

America hails ‘decisive moment’ for Ukraine as allies pledge more military support

Time to dig deeper, allies told as Germany stalls on tanks

Evening Standard

Martin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalism

The marriage of liberal economics and democracy has brought immense benefits to the world, but faces its toughest test in decades. What needs to be done?

Financial Times

Allies offer more weapons to Ukraine, but no decisions made on tanks

Western allies on Friday dampened Ukraine's hopes for a rapid shipment of battle tanks to boost its firepower for a spring offensive against Russian forces, with the United States urging Kyiv to hold off from mounting such an operation.

Reuters

CIA director visits Kyiv, meets with Ukraine's Zelenskyy

CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The Independent UK

Scholz stalls on Ukraine tanks decision but looks poised to give go-ahead

Observers expect Germany’s hesitant chancellor will soon say yes to allowing supply of Leopards to war effort

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine recap: world leaders gather at Davos to make the case for more military aid to Kyiv

“We’re tired of fighting Putin with rubbish kit”. This recent headline in The Times was an eloquent expression of the feelings of a Ukrainian tank sergeant, part of the 24th Mechanised Brigade fighting in Bakhmut in the country’s east. “Spider” Bogdan, whose Soviet-era T-62 had ground to a halt, dreams…

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Ukraine could be an 'inflection point for the Western world': 'The only thing that matters for the future of the world is how this thing plays out'

A recession may be on the way, but Jamie Dimon says the Ukraine war is still the world's most challenging crisis.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin aide in security scare after helicopter makes emergency landing in Iran

Igor Levitin had been on a "secret" visit to Iran as Russia tries to speed up deliveries of missiles and military drones for use in Ukraine. He made an emergency landing due to 'security issues'

The Conversation

Ukraine war: Kremlin's campaign of misinformation keeps Kyiv and its allies guessing

During a recent visit to St Petersburg, Russian president Vladimir Putin reiterated his confidence in his country’s victory over Ukraine. Visiting a defence contractor, he also took the opportunity to reassure workers that his so-called “special military operation” was in defence of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine against…

Nottingham Post

DWP expected timeline for 2023 Cost of Living payments

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Reuters

Russia's Putin holds second phone call in just over a week with Iranian president

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday, the Kremlin said, their second conversation in nine days.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin orders 21 mobile crematoriums amid 'colossal' Russian war losses

The Kremlin is acutely aware of its toll of "irretrievable losses" and wants to hide the scale of deaths of mobilised troops from everydays Russians - so has deployed several mobile crematoriums to help Vladimir Putin cover his tracks

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s defeat in Donbas is a victory for Russia’s growing mafia state

The map is moving again. In Eastern Ukraine, after months of severe retreats, Vladimir Putin’s forces made their first significant advance: capturing the salt mine town of Soledar. It wasn’t, however, General Valery Gerasimov, the Kremlin’s military chief in Ukraine, who first rushed to claim victory — posing in a…

Daily Mirror

Ukraine President Zelensky says Vladimir Putin could be dead in bombshell speech

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urging his allies to send more weapons to his army before new Russian offensives

Evening Standard

Germany urged to join UK and other allies in sending tanks to Ukraine to end Putin’s war

Germany came under intense pressure on Thursday to join Britain and other European nations set to supply tanks to Ukraine to defeat Vladimir Putin’s war.

Axios

Zelensky: West has "vaccine against Russian tyranny" — more weapons

“ There doesn’t have to be dialogue, just do it," Zelensky said in Davos.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: As Russia murders civilians in Dnipro, why won't NATO send weapons that could end the war?

To understand why Russia's war on Ukraine remains the key foreign issue for Americans in 2023, you should watch the video of a Ukrainian mother whose son died when a Russian missile blasted a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro on Saturday.

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