Norway drops $200 million lifeline into Ukraine’s budget—10 million pensioners teachers and emergency workers rely on it
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Ukraine brings home 300 more soldiers and two civilians on second day of POW swap — 500 freed in total over two days
Ukraine confirmed the final stage of the exchange agreed in Geneva, returning soldiers from across all branches — including Mariupol defenders held since 2022.
Iran hit Abu Dhabi but not the peace talks — Kyiv says the next Ukraine-Russia-US round is still days away
The Ukrainian president says the 5-6 March trilateral is on track — he prefers Geneva, though Austria, the Vatican, or Turkey are also options if Russia wants a neutral venue.
UNGA backs Ukraine’s peace resolution with 107 votes, rejects US push to drop territorial integrity
On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, 69 countries voted down Washington's proposal to strip sovereignty and territorial integrity language from the text — only 11 backed the US move.
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “playing games” with Trump — and names the one thing that would actually hurt Putin
It's not battlefield weapons. It's cutting Moscow's revenues funding Russia's war machine, he told FT.
Bilateral deals for Washington, maximalist war aims for Moscow — ISW maps the Kremlin’s two-track play
While Lavrov blamed Ukraine and the EU and railed against Western security guarantees, Kremlin officials were at the same time calling on Washington to lift “illegal” sanctions and calculate the price of frozen US–Russian commerce.
EU wants Russia to hold free elections and withdraw troops from Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Transnistria— as part of a Ukraine peace deal, leaked paper shows
The document, circulated by EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas among member states, also calls for nuclear weapons removal from Belarus, reparations, and free elections inside Russia.
Geneva talks hit impasse over Medinsky’s demands as Witkoff claims “meaningful progress”
The political track of US-brokered trilateral negotiations stalled on 17 February after Russia swapped its delegation chief for a Kremlin propagandist.
Russia’s election demand for Ukraine comes with a catch — only a pro-Kremlin result will do, ISW says
Moscow uses the "illegitimate government" claim to insist on controlling Ukraine's politics. ISW warns the US must lock in security guarantees before any territory deal to prevent Russia from rejecting them after Ukraine has already committed to concessions.
Reuters: US pushes Ukraine toward a March peace deal with Russia and unrealistic May elections
The Witkoff-Kushner negotiating team has pressed Kyiv to move fast, warning that Trump will have less political capital for a deal as congressional midterms approach, according to sources familiar with the talks.
$1 billion in trade cuts, a crude oil shipping ban, and a crypto crackdown: what the EU’s proposed sanctions package would hit
Von der Leyen urges member states to endorse the package before the war's fourth anniversary, citing Russia's 24% oil revenue collapse as proof that sanctions work
Baltic leaders call on Europe to claim its seat at Russia-Ukraine peace talks
Latvia's PM and Estonia's president say Europe must stop watching from the sidelines and get its own representative into the room where the war's future is being shaped.
Kindergarten, school, railway’s warming shelter among Russia’s overnight targets as Trump-pushed Abu Dhabi talks enter day two (PHOTOS)
Russian forces launched 183 drones two ballistic, hitting railway infrastructure and energy systems. A female station duty officer in Shostka district was injured walking to her shift.
Not another Minsk, not another Budapest: NATO chief promises Ukraine different kind of security guarantees
The Budapest Memorandum from the 1990s promised Ukraine security in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons; the Minsk accords promised ceasefires with Russia in 2014 and 2015—both failed spectacularly.
Trump praises Ukraine-Russia talks as “doing very well” as Russian missiles knock out heat to thousands of Ukrainian homes during Arctic-level cold snap
The overnight attack on 3 February was already underway when the US President addressed reporters, with temperatures across Ukraine dropping past -20°C.
Lavrov’s Soviet playbook in Abu Dhabi: Russia frames itself as America’s equal to cut Europe out of Kyiv-Moscow talks
The Russian foreign minister compared Moscow to Washington as a fellow "great power" just days before trilateral negotiations, a tactic ISW says aims to entice Trump with economic deals while pushing to exclude Europe from peace talks.
EU’s Kallas: Western pressure on Ukraine helps Russia secure demands it never won on the battlefield
The EU's top diplomat said Europe should instead push for concessions from Moscow — including limits on its military, army, and nuclear weapons, plus accountability for crimes committed.
Zelenskyy tells Trump Ukraine wants 50-year US guarantees and foreign troops to enforce them
He said martial law will not be lifted until the General Staff confirms full infrastructure readiness.
Trump still claims Putin is “serious about peace” and downplays Russian strikes
At Mar-a-Lago, he drew a parallel between Russia’s deliberate bombing of homes and Ukraine’s hits on military fuel sites.
Putin clings to phantom victories as generals feed him battlefield fiction, FT says
Western officials believe flawed battlefield briefings have convinced Russia’s president he can win outright, causing him to reject seemingly favorable peace terms offered by Donald Trump.