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The Pentagon continues to supply military equipment and ammunition to Ukraine using previously allocated funds and existing contracts, but needs additional funding from Congress to provide new assistance.

Today, February 17, everyone can join the Day of Spontaneous Acts of Kindness. The event originated in 1995 in the United States. Its goal is to make people a little happier and spread a bit of kindness around.

A New York court has found Donald Trump guilty in a fraud case and ordered him to pay a fine of $355 million, banned him from holding executive positions in New York companies, including his own Trump Organization, and imposed a two-year ban and a $4 million fine on his sons.

The United States provided the National Police of Ukraine with 66 vehicles, 250 drones, 9 3D laser scanning systems and a DNA laboratory to document russian crimes.

South Korea and the United States launched joint military exercises involving 400 marines to strengthen regional defense capabilities against potential threats from North Korea.

Controversy with German entrepreneurs over Green Deal initiatives could affect Ursula von der Leyen's programme when she is re-elected president of the European Commission.

Today the US President will make a statement on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony.

India resumed oil imports from russia, purchasing a shipment of Sokol oil through a trader and probably paying in UAE dirhams.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is deploying a new grouping of mine countermeasures forces in the Black Sea using two British Sandown-class mine countermeasures ships.

Between December 30 and February 7, Russia fired 24 North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine, killing 14 civilians.

The US vice president warned that isolationism and abandonment of allies is dangerous and undermines stability, implicitly rejecting Trump's worldview.

Zelenskyy expects the U. S. Congress to approve further aid to Ukraine to continue its defense against Russian aggression.

Euroclear has warned that the use of frozen Russian assets as collateral for the issuance of debt to Ukraine could pose risks to European financial stability and expose Euroclear to legal action.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the U. S. Congress to approve further aid to Ukraine as soon as possible during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Deputy Prime Minister Kubrakov discussed with U. S. officials Ukraine's financial needs for reconstruction and increased protection of maritime exports due to the tightening of the blockade on the Polish border.

Eva Strelnikova's Ukrainian drama Stay Online, about a female volunteer who helps the military during the Russian invasion, will be distributed internationally, except in North America, by K5 Media Group.

The former architect of sanctions against Russia, Dalip Singh, returns to the Biden administration.

According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, the U. S. Congress has known about russia's development of anti-satellite weapons for several weeks.

Senator Tom Tillis criticized Tucker Carlson for praising low food prices in Russia in a video, saying Carlson was a "useful idiot" for spreading Kremlin propaganda.

A bipartisan delegation from the U. S. Congress will visit Hungary on Sunday to urge it to approve Sweden's NATO membership application, as Hungary is currently the only country that has not ratified Sweden's membership in the alliance.

The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine expressed confidence that U. S. assistance to Ukraine will continue, as supporting democracy around the world is in America's sovereign interests, although funding is facing a political fight.

NATO is developing plans to deploy the Alliance's armed forces across Europe in response to Russia's intensification of its defense industry and military buildup over the past year.

The White House confirmed that Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons, but said they have not yet been put into service and cannot cause direct physical destruction.

SpaceX has launched the first private lunar rover called Odysseus, built by Intuitive Machines, which is scheduled to land on the moon on February 22.

The US Department of Justice has shut down a Russian intelligence hacker network controlled by the GRU that hacked into hundreds of small office routers to carry out cyberattacks.

The Pentagon spokesman said that the US will continue to strongly support Ukraine with weapons, training and advice, as Ukraine has been effective on the battlefield, retaking 50% of lost territory despite significant Russian forces, and will work closely with allies.

The US House of Representatives adjourned until February 28, failing to vote on a bill to provide financial assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

The United States launched a cyberattack on an Iranian warship that was collecting intelligence on cargo ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The White House warns Putin against interfering in the U. S. election, including through comments in support of Biden's re-election.

Biden posted a photo with Zelenskyy and his wife on Instagram and warned that the failure to support Ukraine at this critical time would never be forgotten.