Ukraine and world news 2025
17februaryMonday
17.02. The 61st Munich Security Conference ended Sunday in Germany amid heightened transatlantic tensions. Closing the conference, its chairman, Christoph Heusgen, pointed to the growing rift between Europe and the United States and said: "We must fear that our common base of values is no longer so common."
Xinhua
17.02. Britain is ready to send troops to Ukraine if necessary to ensure the implementation of the peace agreement, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
Telegraph
17.02. A meeting between U.S. and Russian officials to discuss a possible deal to end the war in Ukraine and prepare for the Trump-Putin summit will take place in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, two informed sources said.
Ахіоs
16februarySunday
16.02. European leaders are preparing to hold an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They will meet in Paris to hammer out a common position amid concerns that the United States is pushing peace talks with Russia that exclude Europe.
BBC
16.02. Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, who has suggested that Russia will have to make territorial concessions to end the war, will not participate in peace talks the Trump administration wants to begin in Saudi Arabia in the coming days.
Politico
16.02. Following talks with Belarusian President A. Lukashenko by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher W. Smith, three political prisoners were released into Lithuania. This event is a signal of Washington's departure from years of isolation of authoritarian leaders.
NT
15februarySaturday
15.02. Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President James David Vance held talks on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The meeting was also attended by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Donald Trump's special representative for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
DW
15.02. Three Israeli hostages have been handed over to Red Cross workers in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces say they are now in Israeli territory.
BBC
15.02. The death toll from a car ploughing into a crowd in Munich, Germany, on Thursday has risen to 36. German prosecutors are treating the incident as attempted murder.
Xinhua
14februaryFriday
14.02. TikTok is available again on the US Apple and Google app stores after President Donald Trump delayed a ban on the Chinese social media platform until April 5.
BBC
14.02. Israeli forces stormed the town of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
Al-Jazeera
14.02. Vice President J.D. Vance said Thursday that the United States will impose sanctions on Moscow and possibly use military force if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv's long-term independence.
WSJ
13februaryThursday
13.02. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who arrived in Kyiv on a visit, brought the first draft of a partnership agreement between the two countries, developed by Washington, for consideration by the Ukrainian authorities.
Xinhua
13.02. "Our teams will begin negotiations immediately." Trump called Putin and Zelensky.
BBC
13.02. The new head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, having arrived in Europe for the first time, called Ukraine's accession to NATO and the country's return to the 2014 borders unrealistic, and stated that it should be primarily Europe that provides support to Kyiv.
CNN
12februaryWednesday
12.02. After US Vice President JD Vance criticised "over-regulation" of technology in Europe, the US and UK refuse to sign the Paris summit declaration on "inclusive" AI.
The Guardian
12.02. US President Donald Trump said he would send Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: "I am sending Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky. This war must and will end soon," Trump wrote on the Truth Social social network, without specifying when Bessent would make the trip.
Xinhua
12.02. The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, arrived in Budapest on Tuesday at the invitation of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Hungarian prime minister became the first European leader to agree to an official meeting with the AfD leadership.
BBC