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

🇭🇺🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️The EU wants to allocate another 20 to 40 billion euros and an "unimaginable" amount of weapons to Ukraine, Hungary will always vote against these measures - Hungarian Foreign Minister

🇺🇸❗️Pentagon to be shaken up — White House

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️US-Ukraine rare earth metals agreement may be signed in Washington on February 28 — AFP

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will recommend signing an agreement with the United States on mineral resources on February 26, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️Kiev agreed to new terms of the rare earth metals deal with the United States after Washington refused to demand $500 billion in compensation, the Financial Times writes.

It is noted that the final version of the agreement does not contain any mention of security guarantees from the American side.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Starlink has denied rumors about ceasing operations in Ukraine.

The company stated that it continues to provide services in Ukraine.

🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦British Prime Minister Starmer:

We will deploy our forces in Ukraine if we receive American guarantees.

🇺🇸🇺🇦Zelensky's Statements on Demand for Nuclear Weapons Are Not Serious - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

🇺🇸Trump said that in two weeks the US will start selling "golden" residence permits for $5 million.

The US President also stated that a future agreement with Ukraine on rare earth metals could be valued at $1 trillion.

Trump also said that the United States is not providing any defense assistance to Ukraine right now.

🇺🇸🇷🇺The founder of the American private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, stated that the Russian army has become significantly stronger and more deadly compared to the beginning of the war.

🇺🇸🇨🇦The Trump administration has proposed excluding Canada from the Western intelligence alliance Five Eyes, the Financial Times reports.