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The Ukrainian national Paralympic team will not participate in the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Paralympics due to the decision to allow representatives from Russia and Belarus to participate.
On 15 February, during a combat mission near Pysarivka in the Sumy region, soldier, athlete and coach Dmytro Rusetskyi was killed.
Ukraine plans to reduce the duration of bachelor's degree programmes to three years as part of the transition to 12-year school education. The new system will be implemented in stages and will remain in effect provided that the training profile is maintained.
Ukraine has launched a pilot project called eCheck, a state programme for electronic cheques that will allow buyers to receive purchase confirmations in a banking app. The initiative is designed to simplify business operations and reduce costs for entrepreneurs.
US fighter jets took to the skies to escort two Tu-95 strategic bombers, two Su-35 fighter jets and an A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft operating in Alaska's air defence identification zone.
The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently under temporary Russian control, is now connected to only one external power line. The other line, Ferrosplavna-1, went out of service on 10 February, presumably due to military activity.
During the full-scale war, the production capacity of the Ukrainian defence industry complex has grown to $50 billion, and domestic enterprises already provide more than 50 per cent of the Defence Forces' weapons needs.
After the official round of consultations on ending the war had concluded, representatives from Kyiv and Moscow held another closed-door meeting, which lasted about an hour and a half.
The United States will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, as this could trigger an uncontrolled arms race in the Middle East. Washington has called this its key interest and has not ruled out the use of force if negotiations fail.
A bunch of documents on the Jeffrey Epstein case that the US Department of Justice put out has thousands of mentions of Russia and Vladimir Putin, as well as emails with Russian officials. This has made people think even more that the financier might have been involved in some dirty tricks and foreign intelligence stuff.
Zagreb has declared its readiness to help Budapest and Bratislava transport oil via the Adria pipeline after disruptions to supplies via the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline. At the same time, the Croatian side stressed that it would not support imports of Russian oil, which finances the war against Ukraine.
Turkey is launching its first-ever deep-sea drilling mission outside its own maritime zones. The state-of-the-art vessel Çağrı Bey set sail from the port of Taşucu in Mersin to the coast of Somalia, where, after a 45-day voyage, it will begin drilling based on previously collected seismic data.
