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Meduza breaks down Donald Trump's designs on Ukrainian natural resources and the apparent pitfalls of his plan.

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Journalists from Radio Svoboda obtained a database containing records on 166,000 Russian military personnel treated in hospitals from early 2022 to mid-2024. Here’s what it reveals.

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"I don’t think he’s very important to be at meetings, to be honest with you," Trump said of Zelensky on Friday, adding that the Ukrainian president had done a "bad job" in past negotiations.

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A suspected new undersea cable break has occurred in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden’s Gotland Island, according to the country's coast guard.

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Ryanair has been denying boarding to Russian citizens on flights to Estonia, citing new restrictions from the Estonian authorities. But Estonia’s border service insists it hasn’t changed its policies.

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Russian and American interlocutors have reportedly held secret meetings in Switzerland in recent months to unofficially discuss the war in Ukraine.

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The Trump administration has presented Ukraine with a revised draft agreement on mineral resources, Axios reported. Sources in both the United States and Ukraine told the publication that the agreement is “looking more likely.”

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Military analyst Dmitry Kuznets breaks down the survival odds for Ukraine and Europe if Trump pulls the rug out from under America's allies. How would they fare against Russian aggression without Uncle Sam?

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A press conference scheduled to follow the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. presidential envoy Keith Kellogg on Thursday was reportedly cancelled at the U.S.’s request.

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Just last year, a former fixer for Trump’s ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Politico that Trump “hates Ukraine” and believes it “was the cause of all [his] problems.”

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In the past week alone, Trump has gone from holding a friendly phone call with Putin to suggesting Ukraine started the war and calling Zelensky a “dictator.” Here’s how Ukrainian pundits reacted to the ups and downs of Trump’s first month back in office.

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Maria Chashchilova, the long-time Russian human rights activist recently exposed for lying repeatedly about her past and activism, has been expelled from Latvia.

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Trump's attacks on Zelensky have shocked Ukraine's supporters, but his history with the Ukrainian president suggests his views were formed long before U.S. support for Kyiv became a partisan issue.

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Under Russia’s existing practices, conscript soldiers are not sent into combat without a declaration of war. Vertska Media has confirmed that 25 conscripts were killed last summer in Ukraine's Kursk region incursion.

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Ukrainian military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov says he expects Kyiv and Moscow to reach a ceasefire agreement by the end of the year. "Most of the necessary elements for this are in place."

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Russian state media continues to report on alleged military gains in the Kursk region. RIA Novosti published photos of Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, reportedly taken in the Kursk region on February 11.

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Officials in St. Petersburg plan to use surveillance cameras to identify individuals’ ethnic backgrounds in an effort to “monitor” migrants. It’s unclear how the technology is even supposed to work.

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Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s Odesa with drones on Wednesday evening. About 5,000 residents lost power as a result of the attack. Over the past two days of strikes in the area, a total of 89,500 customers were left without electricity.

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Explosions have struck three oil tankers in different parts of the Mediterranean over the past month. Vessel tracking data indicates that all three tankers had recently been at Russian ports.

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The Trump administration may continue pursuing a deal for access to Ukrainian minerals after Zelensky rejected a proposal presented in Munich last week, Reuters reports. “[We] need to get this guy back to reality,” one Trump adviser said of Zelensky.

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“I think the Russians want to see the war end... But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory, so they have the cards,” Donald Trump told journalists on Wednesday.

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Russian forces launched an overnight attack on Ukraine’s Kherson, striking the city with three guided aerial bombs, one of which hit an apartment building. At least five people were injured, including children, and more may be trapped.

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Maksim Samorukov, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, spoke to Meduza and explained Donald Trump's likely doomed, apparently cynical negotiation plans in Ukraine. He also speculated on Europe's possible "re-engagement" with Moscow.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky endangers Ukraine's very existence by criticizing Donald Trump in public, America's vice president warned earlier today. Hours earlier, Trump called Zelensky a "dictator."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a generally positive assessment of yesterday’s talks with the U.S. Russia’s pro-war Z-blogger community, however, had a far more mixed response.

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Speaking to journalists in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin commented on the U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, a potential meeting with Trump, and worsening U.S.-E.U. relations.

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Mariupol, a Ukrainian city nearly wiped off the map by Russia’s 2022 siege, is getting a new museum — not to commemorate those who died, but to honor Andrey Zhdanov, one of the chief architects of Stalin’s repressions.

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Donald Trump lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky in a post on Truth Social, calling him a “dictator” and claiming he “talked” the U.S. into spending $350 billion on a war that “couldn’t be won” and “never had to start.”

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The U.K. says it’s prepared to send troops to Ukraine as part of a European peacekeeping contingent under a potential ceasefire agreement. Here’s what this initiative could entail — and what risks it carries.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Washington’s European allies that the Trump administration would maintain sanctions against Russia at least until an agreement is reached to end the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.

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Putin says he views the U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week positively: "They brought results."

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The U.K. government is considering deploying Typhoon fighter jets to Ukraine as a security guarantee for a potential ceasefire agreement instead of sending significant ground troops, The Times reports.

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Meduza spoke with Boris Bondarev, a former Russian Foreign Ministry official, about the significance of past Russian-American negotiations in the context of developments under the Trump administration. He also speculated on what Ukraine might do next.

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The European Union is preparing to send at least six billion euros in military aid to Ukraine, Politico reported, citing three E.U. diplomats.

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The Trump administration has reportedly suspended processing of all immigration applications submitted by migrants from Ukraine and Latin America who were allowed into the U.S. under specific programs during Joe Biden’s presidency.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in negotiating a real peace agreement on Ukraine, according to U.S. intelligence.

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A Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s Odesa cut power and heating to more than 500 apartment buildings, as well as schools and kindergartens.

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Trump's special envoy Keith Kellogg has arrived in Kyiv. The trip marks his first official visit to Ukraine.

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Meduza has learned that Russia's preparations for today's negotiations in Saudi Arabia were a bit of "a mess." Also, Moscow could shake up its diplomatic team if and when Ukrainian representatives are involved.

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In a press conference today, Donald Trump said his administration, not Russian negotiators, is pushing Ukraine to hold elections to test Volodymyr Zelensky’s legitimacy as president.

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Russian and U.S. officials claim that today’s talks in Saudi Arabia resulted in an agreement to “begin working on a path” to ending the war in Ukraine — even though Kyiv wasn’t at the table.

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For insight into how Kyiv is likely feeling about the sudden shift in U.S.-Russia relations and the future of the war, BBC spoke to former Ukrainian MFA Dmytro Kuleba. “[Putin] didn’t come for just a piece of land — he came for Ukraine itself,” he said.

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More than six months since Ukrainian troops seized parts of Russia's Kursk region, Vladimir Putin has promised monthly payments of roughly $710 to more than 112,000 refugees. The money will roll until "complete liberation."

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Russian forces use Supercam S350 drones, developed by the Unmanned Systems Group, for reconnaissance. By some estimates, the Supercam S350 contains at least 40 foreign-made components.

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Talks between Russian and U.S. delegations in Riyadh have concluded. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said the discussions covered the war in Ukraine and the possibility of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

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Putin is open to talks with Zelensky, but the question of the Ukrainian president's “legitimacy” must be taken into account, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

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Lawmakers in Yakutsk, a city in Russia’s Far East, voted to abolish direct mayoral elections. Governor Aysen Nikolayev defended their cancellation, saying it was necessary “in the conditions of the war declared against us by Western countries.”

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Negotiations between representatives of Russia and the U.S. to reach an agreement regarding Ukraine have begun in Riyadh. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv will not recognize the results of the talks, to which Ukraine was not invited.

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Commenting on the arrival of Russian officials in Riyadh for talks on Ukraine, Elon Musk wrote: “This is what competent leadership looks like.” He attached a video of the Russian delegation’s arrival, filmed by U.S.-sanctioned state-run outlets.

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European leaders, sidelined from US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, held an emergency summit in Paris on Monday. “In this moment, we have to recognize the new era that we are in, not cling hopelessly to the comforts of the past,” said UK leader Keir Starmer.

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