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Key developments on Feb. 13 * Ukraine's battlefield lessons drive UK to spend over $545 million on hypersonic, long-range weapons in 2026 * Using Starlink ruse, Ukrainian cyber forces trick Russian
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has addressed world leaders at the Munich Security Conference alongside NATO boss Mark Rutte. Elsewhere, the UK says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in Russia after being poisoned with a deadly toxin.
Ukraine's government and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to ease some conditions, including sensitive tax increases, for a new $8.2 billion lending programme, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Saturday.
Key developments on Feb. 10 * Russia threatens families of Ukrainian POWs to register Starlink terminals, Ukraine says; * More arms purchases for Ukraine under NATO-led PURL initiative on the way; *
As Vladimir Putin's forces keep up their bombardment of Ukraine - with a "massive" strike on Kyiv overnight - one Ukrainian athlete wanted to make a statement at the Winter Olympics, but has now been banned.
Another round of U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next week in Geneva, days ahead of the fourth anniversary of the all-out Russian invasion of its neighbor, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said on Friday.
Ukraine is deploying drone-delivered, anti-vehicle landmines to counter Russian assault tactics that are increasingly reliant on motorcycles, ATVs, and light vehicles.
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Ukraine’s new ‘Sunray’ laser can silently vaporize Russian drones like invisible lightning
The drone hangs motionless in a pale winter sky, then suddenly erupts into flame and tumbles earthward. There is no crack of gunfire, no roar of missiles and no visible beam, only the quiet whir of a camera tracking its target from what looks like a telescope bolted to the bed of a pickup truck.
The mother, who is 35 weeks pregnant, sustained blast injuries, a traumatic brain injury, burns and hearing loss, officials in Kharkiv said.
A security source told Business Insider that the drones struck a refinery in Russia's Komi Republic on Thursday.