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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.

Security officials from 82 countries, including many non-Western nations, joined the fourth round of Ukraine-initiated talks to promote Kyiv’s peace proposals in Davos, Switzerland, on Sunday 14 January.

The month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the two sides met for negotiations in a palace in Istanbul. The men in the room tell Yaroslav Trofimov what happened — and why an intervention from Boris Johnson may have been pivotal

An article by President Zelensky published in the Times.