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At the Munich Security Conference, a number of European leaders publicly supported the start of discussions on their own nuclear deterrence mechanism, which would complement the American nuclear umbrella. This was prompted by the erosion of trust in Washington's policies and concerns about the US's readiness to respond automatically to possible Russian aggression.
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency has placed its first orders for 120 mm tank ammunition from German company Rheinmetall worth around €200 million under a framework agreement signed last year.
On 14 February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during which the parties focused on the implementation of energy projects, deepening bilateral relations and the progress of the negotiation process to achieve peace.
The US Permanent Representative to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, said that strategic competition with China and Russia's war against Ukraine are shaping the United States' security agenda, and that the end of the war must be acceptable to Kyiv.
NATO is working on a major overhaul of its air defence system ahead of its summit in July, rethinking its own rules after the lessons of Russia's war against Ukraine and a series of drone incidents on its eastern flank.
Law enforcement officers exposed an organised group that sold up to 3 kilograms of cocaine every month, generating millions in revenue and disguising deliveries as taxi services.
In an interview with NBC News, Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodríguez called Nicolás Maduro the legitimate president of the country and said she was ready to cooperate with the US while Washington negotiates details regarding Venezuela's oil resources with Caracas.
The State Bureau of Investigations reported that as part of the investigation into the case of former head of the SBU's Main Directorate for Internal Security Andriy Naumov, its employees questioned businessman Serhiy Vaganyan in Vienna.
On the night of 12 February, Russian troops carried out a combined missile and drone attack on Kyiv, striking infrastructure and residential buildings. Damage was reported in several areas of the capital, and two people were hospitalised.
The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Office of the Prosecutor General and with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, eliminated a fictitious employment scheme at the Main Military Clinical Hospital. According to the investigation, the official hired acquaintances without actually performing their duties and embezzled 2.6 million hryvnias.
Law enforcement agencies in five countries have arrested 24 suspects in a case involving the supply of cocaine from South America to Europe and the laundering of at least €4 million in profits.
French and Romanian law enforcement agencies, coordinated by Eurojust, conducted a joint operation against a group suspected of laundering hundreds of millions of euros obtained, in particular, from drug trafficking and investing part of the money in real estate.
