KYIV (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to invest at least 1.5 billion euros ($1.56 billion) this year to support Ukraine's economy and businesses during wartime, the EBRD's chief told Reuters on Thursday.

The president appears to have adopted a proposal first made last year that offers “strategic partners” such as the U.S. special access to Ukraine's glut of natural resources.

Russia appears to be "addicted" to military spending to keep its economy propped up, a think tank said this week.

Ambassador Oksana Markarova, writing on Facebook, said this was her first meeting with Kellogg since his appointment, though the two had met before. "We held a thorough discussion with the special envoy and his team and my colleagues,

The United States may present a plan to end Russia's war against Ukraine as early as next week. This is likely to happen at the Munich Security Conference, scheduled for February 14-16, Bloomberg reports.

The Russian leadership is exchanging men—many of them previous casualties discharged prematurely from military hospitals—for land.