JD Vance says US delegation leaving Pakistan after failing to reach deal with Iran US vice president cited shortcomings in the talks, saying Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including to not build nuclear weapons

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A group of investigative journalists obtained another intercepted conversation between Hungary’s FM Péter Szijjártó and Lavrov.

It appears that Moscow may have been able to access virtually any information it sought from the EU/NATO via Budapest.

#Artemis II update: Orion has separated from the rocket's upper stage 🚀
Our European Service Module is in the driving seat!

Earlier Today:

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

📌 “Europe must have full capability to produce all types of air defense systems and the missiles for them — specifically to defend against drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic threats.”

So, how do you propose we respond? What is your vision, your plan?

Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025 Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky claime...

⚡️Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025.

Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Zelensky claimed.

Space missions have greatly enriched our understanding of Earth and the Universe, and our modern society has become dependent on essential satellite services.

But there's a problem: we've brought our bad habits with us into orbit: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine will support US air defense efforts against Iranian Shahed drone strikes in the Middle East.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area.

Latest assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar030526

Fox News mislabels Ukrainian Shahed-drone intercept footage as part of American ‘high-tech arsenal’ destroying Iranian drones U.S. media outlet Fox News aired footage of a Ukrainian interceptor drone destroying a Shahed-type drone but presented the video as showing American drones countering Iranian drones in the Middle East...

⚡️Fox News mislabels Ukrainian Shahed-drone intercept footage as part of American ‘high-tech arsenal’ destroying Iranian drones.

According to Ukrainian drone manufacturer Wild Hornets, the footage used by Fox featured STING — a Ukrainian interceptor drone used to destroy Shahed-type drones.

The likelihood of a consolidation is minimal. There is a large group that heavily suffered and wants to see the regime gone. However, the regime has put so many things in place to cope with a situation like this. Apparently there are up to 4 replacements for each position of power. Going to be tough

Four years ago today, we went to bed only to wake to the sound of explosions the first many of us had ever heard. We woke up to war.

​Since then, the war has been with us every second. No one is truly safe, no one is okay, and the future remains uncertain. Even when we laugh,

Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning?

No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!

February brings wild flashbacks. Of once having a normal life, with dreams, a job, plans, with happiness and carelessness… and of those first days when it all crashed, when the endless Groundhog Day of bombings, survival, sorrow, pain, and fear began.

Russian forces struck the American-owned Oleina oil plant in Dnipro, causing a massive spill with streets flooded in sunflower oil. The facility is owned by U.S. company Bunge. Mayor Borys Filatov shared footage of the strike.

You'd think the fact that the Russian constitution already says invading countries is illegal would mean we have no need to sign yet another treaty promising we won't invade countries.

But you would be wrong.

❗️🇷🇺Russian GRU hackers attacked 🇺🇸US critical infrastructure — a grand jury indictment in California has been unsealed.

They carried out attacks on an airport in Missouri, water supply systems in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, a meat processing plant in California,

‼️👀 The remains of the occupiers in Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region are surrounded: Khartiya has successfully stabilized the situation in this area.

Kindrashivka, Radkivka and part of northern Kupyansk have been liberated, cutting off the enemy's supply lines.

President Zelenskyy is in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region today ‼️🤯

​The town, declared "liberated" by russian propaganda, remains a fierce battleground. In reality, our forces destroyed the majority of the invading troops. Yet a few pockets of fighting remains.

✈️ In July 2024, DHL parcels exploded in logistics centres in the UK, Poland and Germany. Each of them was powerful enough to have brought down a cargo plane had they detonated onboard, - FT

Security services would eventually trace the plot back to a group of Russian-directed saboteurs.

Chaos and lies in US diplomacy & media: Marco Rubio now denies the US had any input into the savage 28-point ultimatum to Ukraine - says it's from Russia. But Axios reporters Barak Ravid and David Lawler, who got the leak, claimed it was written by the US, by Steve Witkoff and... Marco Rubio! 1/

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

German-made Skynex air defense systems in Ukrainian services destroying Russian Shahed drones.

Rubio facing scrutiny after telling US senators that 28-point plan is a Russian proposal passed along to Ukraine The U.S. bipartisan Senate delegation attending the Halifax International Security Forum had received a phone call from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In it, Rubio was quite frank. According to Rep...

According to Republican Senator Mike Rounds, Rubio told senators that the 28-point peace plan drawn up by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, was actually a Russian plan that the U.S. had agreed to pass along to Ukraine.

🇺🇦Oleksandrivsk direction: Our Cossacks have finally pushed through the situation in Danylivka — most of the settlement has returned under the control of our units. A small but important step forward, which gives at least some breath amid this total chaos.

🇺🇦Everything else is difficult.

.Our power outage schedule for tomorrow

Reminder: those trolls in the comments probably aren't real.

There's over a decade of proof of Russia generating fake engagement with bots to flood the internet with their narratives.

Let's start a list: what are the dumbest things you've seen these bots say?🤡🤖

🇺🇦 Mirnograd direction: The city is currently under constant pressure, the enemy spares no heavy FAB bombs & hits the neighborhoods with them, clearing corridors for themselves among residential areas. On the outskirts, there are already captured houses from which they try to advance further towards

SMO "hero" and russian traditional family values. Imagine this, times thousands.

Uzbekistan 2024 GDP is 115 B US$, according to gemini