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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.
The outcome of the Russian-Ukrainian war will determine the future of the entire European continent, said Wolfgang Ischinger, acting chairman of the Munich Security Conference, in his closing remarks on 15 February.
During an election rally in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sharply criticised the European Union leadership, stating that Hungarians should fear Brussels rather than the East, and entered into a new correspondence dispute with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
On the night of 15 February, the Ukrainian Defence Forces struck strategic targets in Russia. Damage to an oil terminal in the Krasnodar region and an anti-aircraft complex in the temporarily occupied Crimea has been confirmed, with fires reported at the sites.
On 14 February, at the Munich Security Conference, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that Russia had attacked Azerbaijani diplomatic missions in Ukraine three times, despite the coordinates having been provided, and called these actions deliberate. He also expressed hope that a peace agreement with Armenia would be officially signed this year.
The American military is preparing options for prolonged operations against Iran if President Donald Trump decides to strike, while talks between representatives of Washington and Tehran are planned in Geneva, mediated by Oman.
