Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Germany sets condition for U.S. on supplying tanks

* Zelenskiy said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos that Western supplies of tanks and air defence units should come more quickly and before Russia mounted fresh missile and armoured assaults. * Canada summoned Russia's ambassador to Ottawa over attacks against civilians in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro that killed at least 45 people, including several children.

Germany will send German-made tanks to Ukraine so long as the United States agrees to do likewise, a government source in Berlin told Reuters, as NATO partners remained out of step over how best to arm Ukraine in its war against Russia. DIPLOMACY

* The Pentagon is still not prepared to meet Kyiv's request for M1 Abrams tanks, said Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's top policy adviser after returning from a trip to Ukraine. * Zelenskiy said in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos that Western supplies of tanks and air defence units should come more quickly and before Russia mounted fresh missile and armoured assaults.

* Canada summoned Russia's ambassador to Ottawa over attacks against civilians in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro that killed at least 45 people, including several children. * Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov drew a sharp rebuke from the White House for saying the United States had assembled a coalition of European countries to solve "the Russian question" in the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a "final solution" to eradicate Europe's Jews.

* The United States will provide $125 million to Ukraine to support its energy and electric grids following targeted attacks on those utilities by Russian forces, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. CONFLICT

* "The situation on the frontline remains tough, with Donbas being the epicentre of the most fierce and principled battles," Zelenskiy said. * Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said in a YouTube video that Ukrainian army units remained in Soledar, with heavy fighting in western districts despite Russian claims for more than a week that it now controlled the town.

Reuters could not verify battlefield reports. * Russian President Putin, visiting an air defence factory in St Petersburg, said Russia's military industrial might meant "victory is assured, I have no doubt about it."

HELICOPTER CRASH * Ukraine's interior minister and a child were among at least 14 people killed when a helicopter crashed into a nursery and set it ablaze in a suburb of the capital Kyiv.

* It was not immediately clear what caused the helicopter to crash. Zelenskiy has asked for an investigation. 

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