U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 10% global tariff on imports after the Supreme Court ruled his April 2025 “Liberation Day” hike unlawful on Feb. 20

The Geneva round of trilateral Ukraine–U.S.–Russia peace talks yielded no progress on key territorial issues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

Spain’s Office for the Reconstruction of Ukraine committed an additional €200 million ($4.6 million) for energy and infrastructure modernization projects during a meeting with Ukraine’s Ministry of Communities and Territories Development

South Korea is considering joining NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative to help finance Ukraine’s purchase of American weapons

Ukrainian drone strikes seriously damaged the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, destroying a production facility and hitting multiple storage tanks

Ukraine’s Presidential Office rejected media reports claiming President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had ordered preparations for three more years of war after peace talks allegedly collapsed

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy firmly rejected withdrawing troops from Donbas to secure a peace deal with Russia, calling the region Ukraine's "real line of defense"

About 10,000 North Korean soldiers are currently on Russian territory and are gaining dangerous knowledge of modern hybrid warfare, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

🕯Multiple Ukrainian kickboxing champion and World Cup winner Dmytro Rusetskyi was killed in action near Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will not be satisfied with territorial concessions or new elections in Ukraine, aiming instead for complete capitulation and a puppet regime

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) board will review a staff-level agreement in the coming days on a new $8.1 billion lending program for Ukraine, paving the way for unlocking additional international support

The United States has in recent months pressed allies not to invite Ukraine and four Indo-Pacific partners to official meetings at NATO’s July summit in Turkey 🔗: link.nv.ua/9V3bit 📸: REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen

Andrew Mountbatten–Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was released nearly 12 hours after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to Jeffrey Epstein

Messages and recorded conversations from 2022 to 2024 show Maj. Gen. Roman Demurchiev boasting to relatives and colleagues about tortures, executions, and mutilation of captured Ukrainian POWs

Poland will be able to mine its eastern border within 48 hours of officially withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel mines, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said after observing unmanned weapons tests at a military institute in Zielonka

A Russian soldier disillusioned with his command surrendered to Ukrainian forces in occupied Kupyansk via the "I Want to Live" chatbot, with Khartiia unit fighters organizing his safe exit from the city

Russia is losing its position as India’s largest oil supplier after its share of Indian imports fell in January to the lowest level since late 2022, while shipments from the Middle East climbed to their highest share over the same period

Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's foreign minister from 2019 to 2020, spoke with Radio NV on Feb. 18 about unexpected aid from China to Ukraine and the "dirty game" unfolding in the trilateral negotiations in Geneva

The United States and Russia may be discussing a new NATO-Russia document behind closed doors, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

Military officials at the Ukraine-Russia-U.S. trilateral talks in Geneva achieved “incremental but significant progress” in defining how a ceasefire would operate, including key conditions and clarifications to lay the groundwork for future agreements

Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin special envoy, said lifting sanctions against Russia would “serve U.S. interests,” arguing that Washington will “eventually” take that step

Pope Leo XIV has declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to join his newly launched Board of Peace because the Vatican believes the United Nations should lead international crisis management efforts

President Donald Trump has increasingly relied on special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to handle high-stakes negotiations — including talks on ending the war in Ukraine and efforts in the Middle East

Russian athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics as "individual neutral athletes" said they were not given complimentary Samsung phones other participants received, Russian propaganda outlet RBC reported

Vladimir Putin is prepared to continue the war against Ukraine for up to two more years to secure full control of the Donbas

The United States decided against licensing localized production of interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems in European countries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Feb. 17 🔗https://link.nv.ua/3825vY 📸: Zelenskyy Official / Facebook

🕯 In Kyiv, people honored those who were killed during the brutal crackdowns by security forces in these days of 2014 amid the Revolution of Dignity. Ukrainians gathered for a memorial prayer service and laid flowers at the memorial. 📸 NV / Serhii Okuniev

The United States presented new evidence supporting claims that China conducted an underground nuclear test near its Lop Nor test site on June 22, 2020, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw said

The Kremlin is creating conditions in Russia for a prolonged war against Ukraine and the collective West by embedding a state narrative of “traditional values,” Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service said

Nearly half of Americans would describe U.S. President Donald Trump as “corrupt,” “racist” and “cruel”

At least three drones attacked the Russian city of Cheboksary on the morning of Feb. 18

🇺🇦🥉Ukraine’s women’s badminton team won their first-ever European Championship medal, claiming bronze with an average age of just 20, and secured qualification for the 2026 Uber Cup 📸: NOC of Ukraine and Olympic Team / Facebook

Unauthorized Starlink terminals are being systematically disabled across Russian-occupied lines, while Russian alternatives — including Gazprom systems — fail to deliver stable combat communications

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks the Ukrainian people will reject any peace agreement that requires unilateral withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Donbas and hands the region to Russia

Iran will temporarily close parts of the Strait of Hormuz for several hours while the IRGC conducts military exercises

The Ukrainian negotiating team is split into two wings with differing views on a potential U.S.–mediated peace deal with Russia

Poland is preparing a legal claim seeking reparations from Russia for crimes and losses inflicted during decades of Soviet domination, a far-reaching investigation that will exceed the scope of its earlier demand for 1.3 trillion euros ($1.5 trillion) from Germany over World War II

Russian forces advanced near Platonivka and in the city of Myrnohrad in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian Defense Forces cleared an enemy incursion area near Bilytske in the Pokrovsk district

Europe aims to produce additional air defense systems similar to the U.S. Patriot, former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus said

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces destroyed a storage site for a Russian Iskander missile system in occupied Crimea, releasing video of the strike

🕯Two young Ukrainian servicewomen with the callsigns Kara and Liza were killed by an enemy drone while evacuating wounded soldiers on the Zaporizhzhya front

As Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “is not interested in peace,” the United States should provide Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles and other military aid to increase pressure on Moscow, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said 🔗: link.nv.ua/kiEAhd

Ukraine’s defense forces regained 201 square kilometers of territory between Feb. 11 and Feb. 15, their fastest pace of advance since mid-2023

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Feb. 16 accused Ukraine of attempting to interfere in Hungary’s upcoming elections during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

The Ukrainian documentary anthology Animals in War, produced by Oleg Kokhan and featuring a segment with Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, has been acquired by Omnibus Entertainment for theatrical and platform release across North America

Gasoline prices in Russia have jumped sharply for the first time in six months following new Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries

Russian forces are intensifying efforts to encircle Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in Donetsk Oblast using pincer maneuvers, but Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Air Assault Forces released video footage, showing their units destroying enemy groups in the Pokrovsk agglomeration

Several dozen Russian troops remain in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, but they are confined to a single city block

Russia is preparing another large-scale strike on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger does not expect Russia’s war against Ukraine to end in 2026 because Moscow shows no interest in concluding the conflict