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| Jacek Tarociński
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and the country’s defence and finance ministers announced on 3 February that Oslo will purchase 54 Leopard-2A7 tanks, with an option to order 18 more vehicles in the future. The overall value of…
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| Michał Bogusz
On 2 February, Pentagon officials announced that an object they described as a “Chinese intelligence balloon” had been spotted over US territory. It reportedly entered American airspace over Alaska on 28 January. Later, after transiting…
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| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Russian forces have intensified operations on the border of the Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts. They are continuing to press Ukrainian positions on the eastern bank of the Oskil river, and between the western bank of the Zherebets river and…
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| Sebastian Płóciennik
The Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), an economic support programme aimed at stepping up the energy and technological transformation in Europe, was presented by the European Commission in early February. It is assumed that the…
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| Piotr Żochowski, Andrzej Wilk
Russian forces are still putting pressure on the Ukrainian positions in Bakhmut and the towns north and southwest of it, making it hard for the defenders to rotate troops and deliver supplies to the town itself. The aggressors have made…
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| Wojciech Górecki
On 31 January, news reports started circulating that Mikheil Saakashvili’s health had rapidly deteriorated, and the former Georgian president had been taken to an intensive care unit. The news was debunked by the end of the day, but it…
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| Jakub Ber
In the last ten days of January 2023, several corruption scandals were exposed in Ukraine, resulting in a series of top officials being fired from the state administration. On 21 January 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine…
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| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Bakhmut, along with villages north and southwest of the town, is still the site of the heaviest armed clashes. Ukrainian forces have repulsed further attacks on Ivanivska on the road from Bakhmut to Kostiantynivka, but are not able to use…
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| Krzysztof Dębiec
Petr Pavel won the second round of the Czech presidential election, held on 27 and 28 January. With a record turnout of 70.2%, he received the support of 58.3% of voters; his rival, the former prime minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), won 41.7%…
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| Michał Kędzierski
On 17 January, Wintershall Dea announced its decision to completely withdraw from its business operations in Russia. The company will deconsolidate its assets in the country and take a one-time write-down of €5.3 billion in its settlement…