​G7 leaders will discuss a new legal formula at a meeting in February under which $300 billion in “frozen” Russian assets could be seized, two sources familiar with the plan, a British official, told Reuters. The new legal formula will allow assets to be seized in “very specific circumstances” involving the aggressor country, one of the sources said.

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A brief summary of recent events:

• Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a meeting in Moscow in March that Russia would “fight for (at least) five years” in Ukraine, diplomatic sources cited by Japan’s Nikkei newspaper said.
• The Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army, Lieutenant General Martin Wijnen, said that the Netherlands and society should prepare for war with the Russian Federation.
• The Ukrainian military has released a video taken at the front that directly contradicts President Vladimir Putin’s statements about the behavior of his military in Ukraine.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office in Kyiv said on Thursday that it suspects an elite unit of the Russian military of being involved in cold-blooded shootings of Ukrainian prisoners of war at the front.
• The Russian occupation administration deliberately hid the true number of victims of the great flood in the Kherson region after Russia blew up the huge dam of the Hakhovskaya HPP in June.
• Ukraine and Hungary are preparing a meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban in the near future, Chief of Staff of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said on Thursday.
• Russia’s state defense company Rostec, which is under Western sanctions, has increased its production of small arms ammunition and salvo rockets 50 times since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, its executive director Serhiy Chemezov said on Thursday.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that some voices in the West are “whispering” about a peace deal in Ukraine after Kyiv’s summer offensive to retake occupied territories failed.
• During 2023, half a million people joined the Russian army under contract, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmytro Medvedev said on Thursday.
• Russian troops recently advanced into the western Zaporozhye region and recaptured positions captured by Ukrainian forces during a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, likely after Kyiv troops withdrew to more defensible positions near Robotyn during the winter, the Institute for the Study of War estimates.

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