🇷🇺🇺🇦Kursk region .

The active phase of fighting in the Kursk region does not cease.
Today, as a result of a counterattack, the Marines captured two key strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sudzha area.
The operation to encircle the enemy group in the Sudzhansky district, including through the Sumy region, also continues.

🇷🇺❗️Warheads of the Oreshnik can withstand temperatures equal to the temperature of the Sun — Putin

🇷🇺🇺🇦During a patrol, FPV operators of the 83rd brigade of the North Guard discovered a rare modification of the German Leopard, called the Strv-122A. It was impossible to leave such a target driving around the border of the Sumy region

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Trump says Zelensky's presence at Ukraine peace meetings 'not that important'

🇺🇸🇺🇦Donald Trump called US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's trip to Kiev on February 12 in vain

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Europe is actually against the settlement in Ukraine, the US believes that these actions are pointless

This was stated by US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️US Vice President J.D. Vance confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio's words that Volodymyr Zelensky says one thing and does something completely different.

"What Secretary Rubio says is absolutely true," Vance wrote on the social network X, responding to the publication of the user who posted a piece of the interview.

🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️German Foreign Minister threatens US with complete severance of ties amid Trump's remarks about Zelensky and Ukraine

🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump threatens Kiev with "problems" if mineral deal is not signed.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺Trump has given Europe three weeks to sign Ukraine's "capitulation," Ukrainian MEP Mika Aaltola said.

His words are quoted by Newsweek, which writes that the deputy is referring to the peace agreement proposed by Trump.

"If we don't do this, the United States will leave Europe," Aaltola added.

🇫🇷🇪🇪France and Estonia are organizing an emergency meeting of European defense ministers on February 24.

Bloomberg reported this on Friday, citing sources.

Representatives from more than a dozen countries are expected to participate, including Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, as well as representatives from the EU and NATO.

"European leaders are rushing to draw up new defense plans in the face of the prospect of the United States ending its massive military and financial support for Ukraine," the agency writes.

4️⃣In one of the largest financial hacks in history, hackers stole $1.46 billion from crypto exchange Bybit, Crypto News reports.

Bybit has confirmed that its multi-signature cold wallet has been hacked.

The hackers then immediately distributed the stolen money to 36 wallets.

🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump:

We will receive $500 billion from Ukraine under the agreement.

🇺🇸🇺🇦Now it's Starlinks' turn, but there's a nuance

According to Reuters, the US is considering cutting off Starlinks in Ukraine if Zelensky does not sign a deal on minerals.

As I said, if the US wanted to end the conflict, they would have turned off Starlink immediately without any conditions.

But it's business, nothing more.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Musk denies Reuters report discussing cutting off Ukraine from Starlink satellite internet system, calling agency ' liars '

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳Trump said he wants to meet with the leaders of China and Russia and propose that they cut their military budgets in half.

🇩🇪⚡️The conservative CDU/CSU bloc wins the early Bundestag elections, according to an exit poll. The Alternative for Germany is in second place for the first time in history.

Scholz's party suffered a setback in the snap Bundestag elections, finishing only third, according to exit poll data.

Turnout in the German Bundestag elections was a record 83%, ZDF reports.

🇩🇪⚡️Olaf Scholz admitted defeat in the elections, calling the result bitter for the Social Democrats

🇪🇺🇺🇦❗️EU supports Zelensky's refusal to hold elections — head of European diplomacy Kallas

The spirit of European democracy has taken hold.

🇪🇺🇷🇺❗️ EU approves 16th package of sanctions against Russia :

– Ban on 13 banks access to SWIFT

– Sanctions against 48 individuals and 35 legal entities

– Sanctions against 74 sea vessels allegedly part of Russia’s shadow fleet

– Broadcast ban in Europe for 8 Russian media outlets

The EU also blacklisted 53 companies, including those from India, Kazakhstan, China, the UAE, Singapore, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺⚡️US calls for withdrawal of draft anti-Russian resolution authored by EU and Ukraine, which UN General Assembly will vote on on February 24