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Amy B. Zegart


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    Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies release alleged wiretap of Yulia Tymoshenko discussing vote-buying with an MP

    Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have released what they say is an audio recording of a wiretapped meeting between Yulia Tymoshenko and an unnamed member of parliament, in …

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    Ukrainian Parliament confirms Mykhailo Fedorov as Ukraine’s defense minister

    Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada voted to appoint former minister of digital transformation Mykhailo Fedorov as minister of defense. A total of 277 MPs backed the move.

    News of Fedorov’s appointment came during a live broadcast of the Verkhovna Rada session …

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    Spain to supply Ukraine with Lanza LTR-25 radar to bolster air defenses

    Spain has signed off on a contract to produce and supply Ukraine with a Lanza LTR-25 long-range tactical radar, along with logistics support, the Spanish government press service said Wednesday, January 14.

    The agreement covers manufacturing and …

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    50 foreign machine tools are STILL manufacturing WEAPONS for Russia! #shorts

    50 foreign machine tools are STILL manufacturing WEAPONS for Russia! #shorts

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    156 strikes overnight: Russia “exports” chaos to Europe – not just Ukraine suffers

    156 strikes overnight: Russia “exports” chaos to Europe – not just Ukraine suffers

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    Six windows on Ukraine: Resilience.

    “A Ukrainian home is something you rebuild, again and again.”

    For our fifth season, Ukrainian Spaces returns to its beginnings, revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how war, time, and responsibility have reshaped their …

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    Russia establishes special forces headquarters and reconnaissance training grounds around Mariupol

    Russian forces have turned Mariupol and nearby areas into a network of military bases and training ranges. The main site is a range on the border of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions near the settlements of Urzuf and Kulikovske.

    As Petro …

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    2 million Ukrainians evading mobilization, another 200,000 soldiers AWOL, new defense minister says

    2 million Ukrainians evading mobilization, another 200,000 soldiers AWOL, new defense minister says

    The rare report on numbers comes as Ukraine faces a critical manpower shortage.

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    How can foreign defense manufacturers benefit from Ukraine’s Defense City regime?

    How can foreign defense manufacturers benefit from Ukraine’s Defense City regime?

    This January, Ukraine's long-awaited Defense City regime has finally come into operation.

    The first company to obtain resident status was SkyFall, a manufacturer of drones and Shahed interceptors.

    This special program, similar to the IT-focused Diia …

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    Ukraine war latest live: Minibus carrying soldiers shot at near Lviv

    Ukraine war latest live: Minibus carrying soldiers shot at near Lviv

    Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 5 times today. A minibus full of soldiers was shot at in the morning of Jan. 14 in the village of Rudno near Lviv in western Ukraine, by an as-yet unknown …

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    Sweden and Finland push EU to bar port services for Russian energy shipments

    Sweden and Finland have urged the EU to use its next sanctions package to impose a full ban on servicing ships carrying Russian energy.

    The EU is preparing its 20th package of sanctions against Russia ahead of the anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale …

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    Parliament appoints Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister

    Parliament appoints Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister

    Mykhailo Fedorov, who had previously served as deputy prime minister and digital transformation minister, submitted his resignation from these positions on Jan. 9.

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    Explosions in Kyiv as Russia's relentless assault on energy infrastructure continues amid freezing temperatures

    Explosions in Kyiv as Russia's relentless assault on energy infrastructure continues amid freezing temperatures

    Local authorities reported on Jan. 14 that air defenses were active in the capital due to yet another Russian drone attack.

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    Chart of the week: Ukraine's missile interception rate slides lower as Russian attacks plunge country into crisis

    Chart of the week: Ukraine's missile interception rate slides lower as Russian attacks plunge country into crisis

    Ukraine's missile interception rate slid lower in the first two weeks of 2026, as Russia continued its months-long bombing campaign against the country's energy infrastructure.

    Ukraine's Air Force reported downing 26 of the 73 missiles launched by …

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    Russian drone strikes leave 45,000 subscribers without power in Kryvyi Rih

    Russian drone strikes leave 45,000 subscribers without power in Kryvyi Rih

    Russian Shahed drones carried out the attack leaving 700 buildings without heat across the city, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, said.

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    Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau accuses Verkhovna Rada faction leader of bribery, sources name Yulia Tymoshenko

    Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) say they have exposed the head of one of the factions in the Verkhovna Rada for allegedly offering illicit benefits to several lawmakers …

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    Ballistic missile reported as explosions rock Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, drone attack ignites factory, damages homes

    Overnight on January 14, Russia’s Rostov-on-Don was shaken by a series of powerful explosions amid a drone attack. A ballistic missile was also observed over the city, according to preliminary reports.

    A fire broke out at one of the city’s industrial …

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    Russia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports

    Russia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports

    The circumstances around the reportedly self-imposed strike were not immediately clear.

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    Ukrainian court sentences Russian soldier to life for killing POWs

    A court in Kharkiv has sentenced Russian serviceman Sergey Tuzhilov to life in prison for a war crime - the killing of a Ukrainian prisoner of war at the Vovchansk Aggregate Plant in the summer of 2024. On Tuesday, January 13, a panel of judges …

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    Leaving the post, not the SBU: Maliuk vows to keep serving after Ukrainian parliament dismisses him

    Ukraine’s parliament on January 13 voted to dismiss Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) chief Vasyl Maliuk, with 235 lawmakers in favor.

    In a column for Kanal 24, the now-former SBU chief said he will continue serving the state and do everything to …

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    Russian GRU and Wagner-linked operatives were aboard the Qendil tanker later struck by Ukrainian drones, investigation finds

    Russian operatives with backgrounds in GRU special forces and the Wagner Group had previously been on board the tanker Qendil (IMO: 9310525), which came under attack by Ukrainian drones in the Mediterranean in December 2025. That’s according to an …

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    Lt. Gen. Sukhrab Akhmedov removed from post after failed Russian marines assault near Pokrovsk

    Sukhrab Akhmedov, the Russian Navy’s deputy commander-in-chief for coastal and ground forces, has been removed from his post, according to a Telegram post by Vladimir Rogov, co-chair of the Civic Chamber’s Coordination Council for the “integration of …

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    Primakov: a ‘well-known PMC’ opened Russian Houses in the Central African Republic and Mali

    Evgeny Primakov, head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs (Rossotrudnichestvo), has officially confirmed that Russian Houses in several African countries were opened by a “well-known private military company.” In …

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    Ukrainian veteran politician Yulia Tymoshenko's party offices searched in corruption investigation, source says

    Ukrainian veteran politician Yulia Tymoshenko's party offices searched in corruption investigation, source says

    Ukraine's anti-corruption watchdogs reported earlier that the leader of an unnamed party had been caught offering bribes in exchange for votes in parliament.

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    Ukraine’s commander-in-chief says Russia planned to reach Odesa and end the war in 2025

    Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia intended to finish the war in 2025 with a decisive defeat of Ukraine, aiming to cut the country off from the sea - plans that Kyiv says were thwarted.

    “The past year was a major test for us. …