U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov discussed "priorities," including air defense and artillery, ahead of upcoming meetings of Kyiv's allies in Brussels, both sides said late on February 11.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on February 11 issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue.
The release of Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah is final, though it is still unclear how much longer she will have to stay in Iran before returning to France, her lawyer said on February 11.
The U.S. Treasury Department will focus in the coming months on cracking down on facilitators and third-country providers helping Russia evade Western sanctions, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on February 10.
The German government has acknowledged an increase in spying by Iranian intelligence agents on exiled Iranians living in Germany since the start of mass protests last year, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on February 11.
A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany, and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes be banned from the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on February 10.
There must be a stronger "international response" to the threat posed by Iran's ballistic-missile program, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told her U.S. counterpart, Antony Blinken.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on February 10 there were risks that Russia's oil production could drop in 2023, under the pressure of a European Union embargo and a G7 price cap on Russian oil, Russian news agencies reported.
The presidents of Poland and Ukraine met in Rzeszow in southeastern Poland on February 9 and discussed the situation in the region
Russia says it is ready to continue work on creating a safety zone around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during a visit to a tank factory on February 9 that Moscow would increase production of tanks in response to Western arms supplies to Ukraine.
Poland is to close a key border crossing with Belarus until further notice, the Polish interior minister said on February 9, as relations between Warsaw and Minsk sink to new lows.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, the organization's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on February 9.
The Estonian intelligence service said in its annual report on February 8 that Russia remains capable of exerting “credible military pressure” in the Baltic region, presenting a medium- and long-term security risk.
A fire broke out on February 8 at an oil refinery in Russia's southern Rostov region near the border with Ukraine, state media reported.
Moscow says it will pursue arbitration after accusing the United States of failing to issue visas to Russian delegates to the United Nations.
Russia has asked Roger Waters, co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, to speak to the UN Security Council on February 8 at a meeting to discuss the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.
Ukraine's parliament approved changes to the 2023 state budget that raise state spending to support small businesses and channel more funds into reconstruction and recovery projects following Russia's invasion.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on February 7 that he's ready to restart stalled negotiations over Sweden's application to join NATO as soon as Turkey is.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to discuss Washington's future support for Ukraine when she travels to a major security conference in Germany next week.
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