🇺🇸🇺🇦 - U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine were briefly paused but resumed over the weekend as the Trump administration reviewed its Kyiv policy.

The White House backed off its initial plan to halt all aid to Ukraine.

Source: Reuters

🇷🇺🇦🇿 Aliyev says that the soviets giving Zangezur (Syunik) to Armenia was a crime against the Azeri people, “but it was not the only one” (referring to ‘rightfully Azeri territories’ given to Russia).

Russia considers Azerbaijan as a non hostile country due to ‘shared opposition to liberal values’ and democracy

🇺🇸🇺🇦 - Trump Eyes Ukraine Deal Exchanging Rare Earths for Aid

President Donald Trump said Monday he wants to negotiate an agreement with Ukraine in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of rare earth metals, key elements used in electronics, in exchange for aid.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had floated such an idea last October as part of his "victory plan" for ending the war with Russia.

🔗 The Moscow Times

🇺🇦 - 13 people detained in Zakarpatye while trying to leave Ukraine in a cargo truck, they hid under layers of sand.

Criminals were arrested not far from the Hungarian border, in an operation that involved both the border patrol and SBU. It was revealed that each paid between 8-10 thousand dollars for being smuggled into the EU.

🇪🇺🇲🇩🇷🇺 - EU to Provide Moldova With $258M to Strengthen Energy Security

The EU will provide 250 million euros ($258 million) to Moldova this year to bolster energy security following Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies, officials said Tuesday.

Russia's state-owned Gazprom halted gas deliveries to Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria on Jan. 1 over a debt dispute, leaving 400,000 residents without gas for heating or hot water.

🔗 The Moscow Times

🇺🇦 - Frontline update:

Ukrainian forces recaptured a series of villages and areas across the frontline, especially in Kharkiv and in the Pokrovsk direction:

🇺🇦 - Ukrainian advances:

- additional areas in Vovchansk, northern Kharkiv region
- Zahryzohe, Luhansk region
- advances in Pokrovsk, Donezk region
- Ukrainian forces also recaptured Lysivka, Kurakhove direction, Donezk region after forcing Russian forces to withdraw after sustaining heavy casualties

🇷🇺 - Russian advances:

- Russian advances in the village of Sribne, Kurakhovedirection, Donezk region. Ukranian forces are still in the village while battles continue
- unconfirmed advance in the Chasiv Yar direction. Reports of full Russian control over the town are false, heavy Clashes ongoing

🇺🇦 - Suicide bomber exploded next to a building of the local conscription office in the Ukrainian town of Kamenets–Podolsky.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Russians used an optic cable-controlled drone (that managed to cover more than 11km distance) to trigger detonation of explosives and destroy of an undisclosed Ukrainian bridge, Ukrainian military officers confirm.

The bridge had explosives placed under that by the Ukrainian side: for having ability to destroy it quickly in case of a Russian offensive.

🇺🇦🇬🇧 - Next Ramstein group meeting on Feb 12.

Historically, the contact group coordinating military aid and support for Ukraine has always been chaired by the U.S. However, now, after change of the U.S. administration, for the first time, Britain assumes leadership in the informal organization.