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Turkey’s parliament has approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid after more than four hours of debates.

The European Union is unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets frozen in Europe, despite G7 plans to discuss the legality of such a move at a meeting in February, senior EU officials said.

Ukrainian leader invited Trump to Ukraine but says if he returns to White House he could make unilateral concessions to Russia.

Joe Biden on Friday signed a measure to keep the US government funded but as Washington shivered under its second major snowfall in a week, the bill did not unfreeze funding for Ukraine.

Nearly two years since the US and its allies froze Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, that roughly $300 billion has been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, while officials from multiple countries debate the legality of sending the money to Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s statehood could suffer an “irreparable blow” if the pattern of the war continued, and Russia would never be forced to abandon the gains it had made.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came out swinging against Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, while urging political and business leaders facing war fatigue in the West to enforce sanctions, help rebuild his country and advance the peace process.

The Kremlin on Monday said that talks in Davos on Kyiv’s peace proposals would achieve nothing as Russia was not participating in the discussions, and Moscow will continue its military operation in Ukraine until it achieves all its goals.