🇪🇺🇺🇦❗️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.

🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump's plan for a settlement in Ukraine does not include any commitment by the United States to send forces to the region or provide assistance in the event of hostilities, the Wall Street Journal writes.

🇺🇦🇺🇸Judging by the information that is available, Zelensky will be in Washington on Friday.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ There will be no cessation of hostilities in Ukraine along the contact line – “we have a constitution,” Lavrov said

Other statements by Lavrov:

– Russia and the United States will hold a meeting in Istanbul on February 27 to discuss the work of the two countries’ embassies, Lavrov said

Other statements by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry:

- What remains of Ukraine must be freed from “racist laws”;

— There were no specific discussions regarding frozen Russian assets;

— Inviting foreign investors to projects in the Russian Federation implies the entire territory of the country according to the Constitution.