#NEWS | Negotiations between Ukraine's President Zelensky and the US diplomatic team led by VP Vance and Secretary of State Rubio just ended in Munich, Germany.

Following the meeting, American VP JD Vance announced that he insists on start of direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

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#NEWS | German Defense minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) claims that 'in the next few years, Europe alone won't be able to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, as Europe and the US have very big gap in their power when it comes to deterrence.'

He also added that 'it is hard to imagine that Europe will take any obligations following the Ukraine war resolution, unless its [Europe's] participation in the peace talks is guaranteed.'

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#NEWS | Russia Arrests U.S. Man for ‘Smuggling’ Cannabis-Laced Candy

Russian customs officers have arrested a U.S. citizen for "drug smuggling" after allegedly finding gummy candy laced with cannabis derivatives in his luggage, Russian news agencies reported Friday.

The 28-year-old man, whom the agencies did not identify, was detained at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport after arriving from Istanbul.

🔗 The Moscow Times

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#BREAKING | Hezbollah affiliated gangs set fire to a UNIFIL vehicle at the Beirut Airport Road, injuring at least one peacekeeper.

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🇱🇧❗️Lebanese Army intervenes and tries to re-open the closed roads.

#BREAKING | US. President Donald Trump: I will take a tough stance on Gaza tomorrow

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#NEWS | President Trump stated that he agrees with VP Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference today. He added that 'Europe is losing their freedom of speech, and they have to be careful.'

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#NEWS | EU's chief diplomat Kaja Kallas: listening to Vance speech [American VP's speech at the Munich Security Conference] felt like United States was trying to pick fight with us.

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#NEWS | Because the Biden administration decided to delete tactical network system Link 16 from the F-16 jets and Patriots that were given to Ukraine, the nation lost one of its best pilots, Oleksiy Mes, to friendly fire last August - WSJ report.

Link 16 lets coordinate data about air threats such as enemy jets, missiles, drones, etc. Additionally, it provides simple and clear data on friendly and hostile units in the air.

The Biden administration decided to delete that from the F-16 jets that it provided to Ukraine. It was deleted off the Patriots, too - reportedly, because, upon their shipment to Ukraine, the US did not expect that the Eastern European nation would acquire F-16s as soon as it managed to.

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#NEWS | Today, Hamas released three more hostages, one of them - a Russian national.

Israel confirms that the hostages were handed over to the Red Cross representatives.

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#NEWS | President Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg makes it clear at the Munich Security Conference - there will be a place behind the negotiations table both for the US and Ukraine (in addition to Russia), however, definitely no place for the EU.

His clear rejection of the EU's involvement comes almost instantly after the Union's head Ursula von der Leyen made a long and optimistic speech, stressing her confidence about the EU being actively involved in the Ukraine peace negotiations in the near future.

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#BREAKING | Iran has barred Lebanese planes from landing at Tehran airport.

The move was reportedly in response to a similar decision by the Lebanese when barring an Iranian plane from landing at Beirut's Rafic al-Hariri airport over allegedly carrying money for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia

Lebanese media also reported efforts by the country's authorities to evacuate their citizens from Iran after two planes belonging to the Lebanese carrier Middle East Airlines were barred from landing in Tehran.

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🇱🇧 Hezbollah announces the end of the sit-in on the airport road, and the organizers confirm that the message from it has been received

#NEWS | In an unexpected twist, NATO's secretary general Mark Rutte sides with the US and tells the EU to ‘stop complaining’ about being sidelined in the Ukraine peace talks.

“Get into the debate, not by complaining …. but by coming up with concrete ideas,” he told the Munich Security Conference.

Rutte also told Politico’s Paul McLeary that the figure of the NATO member states' annual budgetary contribution in the form of defense spending could be “considerably more than 3% [of GDP].”

#EU #USA #Ukraine #NATO

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#BREAKING | US-led International Coalition MQ-9 UAV strike targeted a vehicle on the Urum al-Jawz road in southern Idlib, northwestern Syria.

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#NEWS | Mahmoud Youssouf of #Djibouti elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission

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