The Kremlin has estimated that about 70% of local residents in the temporarily occupied territories (TOTs) of Ukraine will seek to avoid voting in Russia’s illegal presidential elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia is technically prepared for a nuclear war, and that should the US send troops to Ukraine, it would be regarded as a considerable escalation of the war.
Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence of Canada, has committed to joining the international Drone Coalition led by Latvia and the United Kingdom during a visit by his Latvian counterpart, Andris Sprūds.
Moscow will host an inter-Palestinian meeting at the end of February, to which Russia has invited all Palestinian organisations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
In a meeting, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Poland discussed the idea of mounting a joint resistance against extensive Russian disinformation and propaganda campaigns in Europe carried out using coordinated networks of bots and trolls.
VIGINUM, a French state body responsible for vigilance and protection against foreign digital interference, reportedly uncovered Russia’s special operation called Portal Kombat on 12 February. Within this operation a network of Russian websites spread the Kremlin’s propaganda about the war in Ukraine throughout the West.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Ukraine should be left as a “buffer zone” between Russia and the West, which would provide certain security guarantees but not admit Ukraine as a member of the EU or NATO.
After the nighttime Russian attack on Kharkiv, a fire in a private house killed a family of five people: a husband and wife and their three children – seven-year-old, four-year-old and seven-month-old boys.
Poland’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Czesław Siekierski, has urged farmers to end the checkpoint blockade on the Ukrainian border as soon as possible.
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman), will officially appeal to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross over the “trial” of captured Ukrainian soldiers by the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (a self-proclaimed and internationally unrecognised republic of...
Despite sanctions, the Italian arms manufacturer Beretta continues to export firearms to the Russian Federation through its subsidiary and companies affiliated with Russian arms baron Mikheil Khubutia.
The Russia-controlled “Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced 33 Ukrainian servicemen to between 27 and 29 years in a maximum-security penal colony. The servicemen are from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy and the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is “thinking” about replacing the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and changing the direction of the country’s leadership.
The Kremlin plans to carry out mass relocation of residents of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan to the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has reported that Major Oleg Stegachov, the crew commander of a Tu-95 strategic bomber, was shot dead in Engels, Russia.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has analysed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s statements regarding the idea of a “demilitarised zone” which he believes would separate Russian territory from the combat zone in Ukraine.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that his intuition tells him that EU countries will eventually find arguments to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to unblock €50 billion in funding for Ukraine.