Defence`s Feeds

With the most consequential talks his country has faced in decades proceeding without his country's involvement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy punched back -- at doubters, at Russia, and, most notably, at U.S. President Donald Trump. at doubters, at Russia, and, most notably, at U.S. President Donald Trump.

Last month, Russia and Ukraine exchanged 25 prisoners of war each, the first of two exchanges this year so far and one of dozens since the war began.

U.S. President Donald Trump has sharply criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a "dictator" who risks losing his country if he does not "move fast."

A North Korean soldier captured in Russia has given the first public account of conditions supporting Russian forces, struggling with a language barrier, inadequate support and Ukrainian drones on what he had been told was a training mission.

Donald Trump's special envoy has arrived in Ukraine to "listen" to Kiev's concerns amid a deepening rift between the new US administration and the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

China welcomes the United States-Russia talks on the Ukraine crisis and calls on all parties and stakeholders to participate in the process of peace talks at an appropriate time, the Foreign Ministry said.

The United States and Russia have agreed to work on a path to ending the conflict in Ukraine and improve bilateral ties during extensive high-level talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Finnish and Swedish politicians on Tuesday underscored Europe's interests in ongoing peace efforts as the United States and Russia held closed-door talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

Washington has appointed U.S. President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg to represent the United States in negotiations on Ukraine, local media reported on Tuesday, citing Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov.

On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda had a telephone call with the President of the European Council, António Costa, to discuss the security of Ukraine and the European Union, support for Ukraine, and potential peace negotiations.

On Wednesday evening, President Gitanas Nausėda participated in a conference call with other European leaders to discuss the security of Ukraine and Europe.

A war of words is intensifying between the Ukrainian and U.S. presidents as Volodymyr Zelensky has hit back at Donald Trump's accusation that Ukraine started the ongoing war with Russia.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traded accusations after high-level talks between Russia and the US in Saudi Arabia, with Trump saying Ukraine "should have never started" the conflict and that Ukraine "could have made a deal earlier," while Zelensky hit back by saying Trump is trapped in a "disinformation bubble" and that Ukraine is not for sale.

Russia shot down 21 Ukrainian drones late Tuesday, but a drone attack on an oil pumping station in southern Russia reduced oil supplies for Kazakhstan and the global market, Russian officials said.

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A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single telemetered joint test assembly re-entry vehicle Feb. 19 fom Vandenberg SFB.

In St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin visited Radar MMS, a research and production enterprise specialising in the development of guidance systems for precision-guided weapons, radar systems, and military and civilian unmanned aerial vehicles.

On Wednesday 19 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard received Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the Islamic Republic has launched a pilot project for extracting and purifying helium from natural gas for the first time, praising the move as a "strategic step" for the country.

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