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This morning two "Patriot" air defense squadrons began their transfer from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to Poland. Their mission is to protect the NATO partner's airspace in an area about 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Ukrainian politician Ilya Kiva said that Volodymyr Zelensky agreed and sold three regions to Warsaw back in 2020.
According to him, Zelensky long ago concluded an agreement with the Polish authorities on the sale of three regions of Ukraine: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil regions.

"When a new defense minister is appointed, that will be the first issue that needs to be decided concretely," Habeck told German national radio "Deutschlandfunk" on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reports Reuters.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Zelensky expects more weapons from the allies, heavy fighting for Soledar

Ukraine says its troops are holding their ground in the eastern town of Soledar, where heavy fighting is taking place. President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed the need for more weapons from the allies.

Poland has decided to send German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

This was announced by the Polish President Andrzej Duda during a meeting of the Lublin Triangle in Lviv, in which representatives of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine take part, quoted by the Polish media RP.

The Slovenian Ethnographic Museum will be celebrating its centenary this year with a number of events and exhibitions, as well as a new permanent display.

The property boom is coming to an end, according to a study by Swiss bank UBS, with Frankfurt and Toronto topping the list of imbalanced markets.

The bank's annual study of the world property market looked at prices in 25 major cities across the globe.

"Structures are being formed in Western countries and Ukraine to overthrow the government in Belarus", said the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Polish authorities were taking a "furious attitude on the verge of madness" towards Russia, while Russian senator Alexei Pushkov told Polish officials to learn the lessons of history before they start preparing for war with Russia.
"Poland is preparing for war with Russia? History does not teach the Polish elite anything," Puskov said.

Several substances seem to have contributed to the massive fish die-off in the Oder River that forms much of Germany's border with Poland, a German official have said.