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Boris Johnson believes that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine could have been prevented if the West had responded more forcefully to Vladimir Putin's actions earlier on.
Materials published by the US Department of Justice show that Jeffrey Epstein maintained ties with high-ranking officials and businessmen from Russia and tried for several years to arrange a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
An attack by Shahed-type drones was recorded in Tatarstan, with local public sources reporting explosions. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed three Tor anti-aircraft missile systems in one night and separately struck a Tornado-S rocket system in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Budapest has suspended a previously agreed European Union loan to Ukraine, which was intended to stabilise the country's finances. The decision was made a few days before the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld the jurisdiction of US courts in a case against Russia concerning the seizure of energy assets in Crimea and paved the way for the recovery of more than $300 million.
Journalists discovered correspondence in the so-called Epstein files with a Ukrainian model who, between 2015 and 2019, sought out candidates for the financier and received money and expensive gifts from him.
A new poll has recorded a decline in support for the US president, and his ratings could signal risks for the Republican Party ahead of the midterm elections.
The President of Ukraine spoke in favour of establishing European production of anti-aircraft missiles for air defence systems and emphasised the need to speed up decisions in the defence industry.
The Russian government is promoting Max as a national alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram, and the Russian president's family might be controlling it through the complex ownership structure of the VK holding company. This is according to a journalistic investigation published on 18 February.
In the Skerishoara cave in Romania, scientists isolated a strain of bacteria that had been lying under ice for about 5,000 years and proved resistant to 10 modern antibiotics from 8 different classes.
On the night of 17 February, the temporarily occupied Crimea was subjected to a massive drone attack, while the Defence Forces continued to strike military and energy infrastructure belonging to the Russian Federation and the occupiers in the captured territories. There were reports of explosions at airfields, fires at Russian bases, and strikes on facilities that provide logistics and revenue for the Russian budget.
In the German town of Stuhr, near Bremen, a Volksbank branch was robbed after 14 safe deposit boxes were broken into. This is at least the fifth such incident in the country in the last two months, following a series of daring attacks on bank vaults in December and January.
