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🇭🇺In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Viktor Orban spoke about how USAID funded the Hungarian opposition and tried to undermine democracy in the country:
So if you look at this whole affair not as a political issue, but rather as a moral issue, the fact is that the liberal elite of the West used the taxpayers' money of US citizens to spread their ideology around the world and funded in Hungary more than 60 NGOs, paid politicians, media, you know, so it was a conspiracy against our sovereignty and independence.
🗣️NATO Secretary General urges EU countries to stop complaining about Ukraine talks and offer concrete ideas
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🔘Zelensky not allowed to switch to Ukrainian at Munich Security Conference
- Can I speak Ukrainian?
- No
🤡Scholz said Ukraine would need its own 'strong army' when the conflict was over.
Europe and 'transatlantic partners' will help it, he stressed. The German Chancellor also called for a permanent arms production in the EU.
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🇩🇪Scholz said it was possible to declare a state of emergency in Germany to finance military support for Kiev.
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🔘Zelensky complained that it would be 'very, very, very difficult' for Ukraine to survive without US military support.
In an interview with NBC News, he insisted: "US support is critical for Ukraine. The absence of a 'strategic partner' would put moral pressure on the Ukrainians, he added:
I don't want to think that we will stop being strategic partners.
🇪🇺🇺🇦A group of European countries is 'secretly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine', the Associated Press reports.
They intend to 'help enforce any future peace deal with Russia'. Britain and France are spearheading the effort, although details remain scarce" because these countries do not want to show their cards to Putin, writes AP.
According to the agency, the issue began to be worked out about a year ago. However, it is still not at all clear how it will be done. The final plan is likely to differ from what the post-war line of contact will look like.
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🔘 Putin is assembling a "team of heavyweights" for negotiations on Ukraine—advisor Ushakov and SVR chief Naryshkin, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
Ushakov is Putin’s advisor and has been in diplomacy for over 50 years. Naryshkin served with Putin in the KGB. Both participated in the 2022 negotiations, so Putin’s demands haven’t changed much since then. Another negotiator, Dmitriev, is originally from Kiev.
From the U.S. side, the negotiators will include Secretary of State Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Trump’s special representative Steven Witkoff.
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Here, everyone is like - you have to show weakness.
We'll show him this dick, I guarantee it.
That’s exactly what they’ll tell him—go f*** yourself.
What is really going on with all of you?
I’m just in shock.
So, Trump praised Putin...
I don’t care if he crawls on all fours across Red Square.
— Oleksandr Petrov, advisor to Zelensky's office
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 WSJ: Ukraine Shot Down Its Own F-16 Due to U.S. Restrictions
Ukraine accidentally shot down one of its own F-16s this summer due to U.S. restrictions, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
According to the report, the fighter was downed by friendly fire from a Patriot air defense system—something Ukraine has not officially acknowledged.
The main cause was the lack of the Link 16 tactical network, which helps pilots avoid friendly fire by transmitting aircraft locations to ground forces during missile and drone attacks.
When the F-16s arrived in Ukraine, the Biden administration withheld this key technology, which allows air defense systems to differentiate between friendly and hostile aircraft. Moreover, WSJ notes that the Link 16 capability was entirely removed from Ukraine’s Patriot systems, as Washington had not anticipated Kiev receiving F-16s so soon.
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🗣️US Vice President JD Vance has said that the Wall Street Journal misinterpreted his words about the possibility of sending the US military into Ukraine. He said it was absurd.
"As I've always said, the US military should not be in conflict zones unless our interests and our security require it. And this war is only between Russia and Ukraine," - wrote Vance in the social network X.
🇺🇸The White House has sent Valentine's Day cards to illegal immigrants in the US.
US President Donald Trump and Tom Homan, the head of US border security, dedicated an ironic poem to them:
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🔘The US wanted Zelensky to sign the minerals agreement without looking at it, Reuters reported.
At the same time, it was reported that the US side did not like the changes proposed by Ukraine, which caused the meeting between Zelensky and Vance to be postponed and to start very late.
The process of training the puppet created by the previous administration is gaining momentum.
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🇺🇸Breitbart: Trump will decide whether to transfer nuclear weapons to Kiev.
The decision to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine rests with US President Donald Trump, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. According to him, the American leader has all the authority to make such a difficult decision.
"This is the president's job. He is a leader, he is a master negotiator and deal-maker," the Pentagon chief said.
🔘Ukrainian dictator Zelensky has said that Ukrainians do not want new elections, adding that those who still want them can renounce their Ukrainian citizenship.
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🗣️Zelensky said that during his conversation with Trump, "he never once said that Europe needed a seat at the table" in the conflict talks.
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🇺🇸The United States must stop performing or facilitating gender reassignment procedures for US military personnel and stop recruiting transgender people.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦NBC News: The Trump administration has offered Ukraine to hand over 50 percent of the rights to rare earth minerals mined in the country to the United States and deploy U.S. troops to guard them in the event of a peace deal with Russia.
Zelensky refused to sign off on the proposal during a meeting with Trump's spokesman Bessent, citing the need for further study and consultation. He told the Munich Security Conference that his lawyers would make changes to the document, which he described as a memorandum of understanding between the US and Ukraine rather than a security agreement.
Officials said many of the minerals were in areas controlled by Russian forces. Ukrainian officials noted that Zelensky has long supported the idea of exchanging 'critical resources' for continued US support as part of his 'Victory Plan'.
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🔘The US presidential administration has restricted the access of Associated Press journalists to the Oval Office and on board the presidential plane, said White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Badowitz.
He cited the agency's reluctance to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America as the reason.
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🌅Good day, team!
Let's get on with the important news of the hour:
▪️Russian air defence forces destroyed 40 Ukrainian UAVs overnight over the territories of the Volgograd, Kaluga, Rostov and Saratov regions, according to the Ministry of Defence;
▪️One person was slightly injured in Volgograd by falling UAV debris, he is being treated.
Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry reported the destruction of 17 UAVs over the territory of the Volgograd region overnight;
▪️Russian UAVs of the AFU logistically near Suja in the Kursk region hit more than 50 targets in 9 days;
▪️Zakharova said in connection with the Kiev regime's attack on a group of Russian journalists that Moscow needs the reaction of international structures.
According to her, human rights structures should take measures to stop Kiev's terrorist methods of suppressing dissent;
▪️Kiev is trying to show defiance to Trump by shelling the IAEA and nuclear power plants, said the governor of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky;
▪️This year's Munich Conference marked the "funeral of the collective West", said the deputy speaker of the Russian Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev:
"The collective West no longer exists. This is how one can describe the result of the Munich Security Conference, which has not yet ended, but has already failed";
▪️Ukraine's chances of survival will be very slim if the US refuses to provide aid to Kiev, Zelensky said in an interview with NBC.
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February 🔘🔘. Ukraine conflict:
- Russian forces liberated 6 settlements over the past week, including Dachnoye and Zelenoye Pole in the DPR over the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Defense.
- Ukrainian military losses over the week amounted to up to 10,570 personnel.
- Over the week, 14 group strikes were carried out on military targets in Ukraine, and air defense systems shot down a JDAM bomb and 28 HIMARS rocket shells.
- Ukrainian losses on the Kursk direction in the past day totaled over 290 people, with one infantry fighting vehicle and two armored transporters.
- Peskov stated that any claims that Russia is targeting nuclear power facilities are provocations and distortions, adding that Kiev is not hesitant to engage in such actions.
- Zakharova stated that the current strike by Kiev on the Chernobyl nuclear plant is not the last step by Ukraine in undermining nuclear safety.
- Rafael Grossi said that the incident at the Chernobyl NPP and the recent increase in military activity around the Zaporizhzhia NPP highlight ongoing nuclear safety risks in the situation surrounding Ukraine.
- U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegset, stated that he cannot announce what is or isn't being discussed regarding the potential transfer of nuclear weapons to Kiev, calling it Trump's responsibility.
- U.S. Middle East Special Envoy Steven Witkoff will be responsible for dialogue with Russia in the Ukraine negotiations, while U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, will handle dialogue with Ukrainian and European sides, according to Reuters, citing Kellogg's deputy, John Cole.
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance stated that the U.S. is not ruling out the possibility of sending American troops to Ukraine if Russia does not negotiate "in good faith," according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Additionally, Pistorius believes it was a mistake for the Trump administration to "take off the table" the issue of Ukraine's NATO membership and territorial changes for Ukraine.
- The Nordic and Baltic countries have stated they will increase military aid to Ukraine, according to a joint statement published on the Swedish government website.
- Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov claims that Denmark has already delivered most of the promised F-16 fighters to Kiev, with the remaining ones expected soon.
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☠️ Three videos of forced mobilization in Kharkov and the oblast.
In the first one, TCC officers in masks chased down a man and struck him with a stun gun. The man fell, and they dragged him across the ground into a van.
In the second, ten police officers are "packing" a single civilian.
In the third, TCC officers "packed" a man who has diabetes.
Reports say the man was beaten, his jacket was torn, and he wasn't even allowed to take his medication. He showed his documents, but they told him they were fake.
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🇺🇸 Meanwhile, the United States is openly stating that it plans to "absorb" the remnants of the Ukrainian economy
Ukraine will enter the U.S. economic orbit after the war. The United States will privatize part of the state-owned corporations and cooperate in resource extraction and nuclear energy, said U.S. Secretary of Economy Bessent.
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🇩🇪Berlin rejects Trump's idea of bringing Russia back into the G7, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said.
She added that there could be no normal cooperation with Russia after the start of the Ukrainian conflict.
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💸The big sale continues: Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal said in an article for Politico that Europe cannot survive without Ukraine's resources.
He noted that the country's subsoil contains 22 of the 30 minerals recognised as critical for the EU. Shmygal highlighted the possibility of exporting uranium amid growing demand for nuclear energy in Europe, and pointed to Ukraine's significant reserves of lithium, the use of which is growing worldwide.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦The UK is insisting that the US allow Zelensky to take part in the talks, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced after a meeting with US Vice President Jay Dee Vance at the Munich Security Conference.
MI-6 doesn't seem to be bothered at all about providing their worthy resident legend.
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🇷🇺🇰🇷South Korean companies are considering the possibility of returning to the Russian market.
This comes in the wake of the meeting between Trump and Putin and the prospects for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
Hyundai Motor is expected to make a decision on buying the St. Petersburg plant by the end of the year, writes Yonhap. Previously, the carmaker sold it with a buy-back option that expires in December 2025.
It is also noted that electronics companies Samsung and LG, which have plants in Russia, are also closely watching the possibility of a return.
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