Ukraine

According to a new poll, the share of Ukrainians who believe that things in the country are heading in the wrong direction has increased from 32% in December 2023 to 46% in February 2024.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine issued registration certificates for 20 small arms and 4 grenade launchers from the United States, Turkey, and Germany, allowing their purchase and use by Ukrainian military units.

Border Guard Service spokesman Demchenko said that there are no signs of Russian strike groups forming in Belarus and that they are not seeing any significant activity on the Belarusian border.

Russia continues to recruit foreign mercenaries, promising them high salaries, but paying them much less as its army suffers heavy losses in Ukraine.

Germany plans to provide Ukraine with more than €100 million in short-term military aid, including demining vehicles, explosives for drones, trucks, medicines, and spare parts.

Ukraine and Italy discussed the West's refusal to buy russian gas to ensure Europe's energy security and the transition to renewable energy sources.

Russia has begun preparing its military airfields for possible strikes by Ukraine and NATO, testing the resilience of airfields to attacks and conducting exercises to restore runways and protect aircraft.

During the morning shelling, a power substation in Lviv was completely destroyed.

According to British intelligence, the sinking of the Russian amphibious assault ship Caesar Kunikov will further reduce Russia's limited naval resources in the Black Sea and make its logistics chain vulnerable to new Ukrainian attacks.

Ukrainian border guards do not see any extraordinary activity on the Belarusian border, despite reports of a counterterrorism regime in one of the Belarusian districts near Ukraine.

The hacker detained in Ukraine sold stolen personal data to residents of Canada and the United States and earned several million hryvnias, for which he faces up to 8 years in prison.

Valeriy Zaluzhny, who was dismissed from the post of commander-in-chief, still enjoys the highest level of trust among Ukrainians. His successor, Oleksandr Syrskyi, is trusted by 40% of Ukrainians, but 35% did not know anything about him before his appointment.

Ukraine's Security Service detained two top managers of Russian oligarch Deripaska and served him with a notice of suspicion of supplying raw materials from Ukraine that Russia uses to produce ballistic missiles and combat drones.

According to White House spokesperson Karin Jean-Pierre, Republicans who block additional aid to Ukraine are siding with Russian President Putin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France during his visits to Berlin and Paris.

1132 couples in Ukraine got married on Valentine's Day, with the oldest being an 83-year-old bride and a 72-year-old groom.

Farmers in Poland pelted eggs at the European Commission office in Wroclaw, protesting against the EU's Green Deal and agricultural imports from Ukraine.

French President Macron is expected to sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy during the latter's visit to Paris.

Polish farmers and carriers threaten to block border traffic in February and March to protest the EU-Ukraine international freight agreement.

It is reported that russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Viktor Sokolov may be dismissed from his post after Ukraine destroyed another russian landing ship, the Caesar Kunikov.

Two women defrauded Ukrainians of more than 45 million hryvnias by claiming to sell drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but did not deliver them.

For unknown reasons, a counter-terrorist operation was introduced in the Lelchitsa district of the Gomel region in Belarus, near the border with Ukraine.

The russians used the technology of deepfake to create a fake video in which Ukrainian servicemen called for the overthrow of the constitutional order, which was refuted by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation as propaganda.

As of the end of 2023, Ukraine's losses from the war amounted to almost $499 billion, with sectors such as trade and industry, agriculture, energy, and transportation suffering the most.

The parliamentarians discussed with IMF representatives the attraction of international assistance in the amount of $37 billion and more than 400 billion hryvnias for Ukraine's military campaign.

The body of an 8-year-old girl was found in a river in Chernivtsi region, Ukraine, three days after she fell into the water.

In Kherson, a former law enforcement officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defecting to the side of russian forces during the occupation and voluntarily joining an illegal law enforcement agency.

Ukraine refuses to remove Raiffeisen Bank from the list of war sponsors because of doubts about the bank's plans to completely withdraw from Russia.

Hungary has blocked EU sanctions against Russia over proposed measures against Chinese companies.

The Ukrainian government discussed with the German delegation joint regional recovery projects with German investors, as well as the priorities and agenda of the 2024 Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin.