🇨🇳The Chinese New Year has begun according to the Eastern calendar.

The Year of the Wooden Snake will last until February 16, 2026.

🇪🇺🇷🇺The EU has decided to ban the supply of Xbox and PlayStation to Russia.

▪️ According to EU High Representative Kaja Kallas, consoles can be used to control drones.

▪️ The ban on Xbox and PlayStation supplies is planned to be introduced on February 22 as part of the 16th package of sanctions against Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The defeat of the Swedish CV9040C IFV of the Ukrainian army by strikes from FPV drones on fiber optics, the border of Kursk and Sumy regions near the Ukrainian village of Zhuravka .

🇺🇦A criminal case has been opened against Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov for abuse of power in the procurement of weapons and the management of military aid.

This was confirmed by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, reports the TV channel "Public".

A new season of Suicide and Missing Persons Club begins in Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦After the US ban on grant aid, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Mass Information Oksana Romanyuk stated that 90% of media were sponsored by the US.

What a surprise.

🇺🇸The Trump administration has resumed grant payments for some foreign aid programs it had previously suspended, The New York Times reports.

An exception is made for “life-saving humanitarian aid” – the provision of essential medicines, medical services, food, shelter.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's memo to federal agencies and aid recipients says such programs "should continue or be resumed if they have been stopped."

Earlier it became clear that military aid to Ukraine was among the suspended US programs.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Russian troops have taken control of Novolizavetovka in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

🇺🇸Trump has banned gender reassignment surgeries for children under 19, the White House says.

"Today, across the country, medical professionals are mutilating and sterilizing increasing numbers of impressionable children under the radical and false premise that adults can change a child's gender through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and must end," the US President said.

The decree prohibits the use of sex hormone blockers and surgical operations to change external gender.

Earlier, Trump issued a decree that in the United States there are only two genders - male and female.

🇸🇾🇹🇷A pair of new Turkish T-155 Fırtına 155mm self-propelled guns fell victim to FPV drones of the Kurdish SDF.

The first vehicle's ammunition ignited, the second also received a direct hit, but no fire occurred.

🇺🇦🇷🇺A Ukrainian drone attacked a private home in the Belgorod village of Razumnoye, killing a mother and a two-year-old child , wounding a father and a second child, the governor reported

🇷🇺🇺🇸The State Duma will appeal to the US Congress and the UN with a demand to investigate Carlson's words about the Biden administration preparing an assassination attempt on Putin

🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸Ukraine is negotiating with the EU to replace US aid due to the suspension of funding for USAID projects.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine admitted that the country was not ready for such events.

🇬🇱A new poll has shown that 85% of Greenlanders are against joining the United States, DW reports.

It was carried out by the company Verian on behalf of the Danish newspaper Berlingske.

6% of Greenlanders voted in favor, while 9% were undecided.

Let us recall that earlier the American organization published a survey according to which 57.3% of Greenlanders allegedly support joining the United States.

At the same time, the Greenlandic authorities declare their desire for independence.

🇸🇰🇺🇦The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian ambassador and expressed its protest to him over Kyiv’s interference in the country’s internal affairs.