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As the United States renews its diplomatic push to end Russia's war against Ukraine, Moscow is making something clear: its position has not changed.

While U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian officials met for trilateral talks in January and again in early February — with another round expected next week — the Kremlin has used the same period to restate its position.

As Washington speaks of momentum and narrowing gaps, Russia's most senior officials have publicly dismissed key elements of the proposed framework.

For three consecutive days, from Feb. 9 to Feb. 11, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov publicly undercut suggestions that negotiations were advancing.

His message was consistent and direct: Russia's territorial and political demands remain intact, and any serious discussion must revolve around Ukraine accepting them.

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Ukrainian war refugee detained in US: "I explained to the ICE officers that the war was killing people, […] that it was violence, terrorism which we had escaped from but one of them began to laugh" … "I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war."

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The movement stated: "South Lebanon is a part of our ancestral land, where Jewish settlement has existed for thousands of years. In order to ensure the security of the residents of the north, the construction of a civilian settlement in South Lebanon must be promoted, near IDF posts. Only a combination of military control over all of South Lebanon and civilian settlement will bring about complete security on the northern border," it said.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirms discussions underway on a European nuclear deterrent, at speech in Munich.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that U.S. leadership can no longer be taken for granted and Europe must prepare to stand more firmly on its own, in a stark warning to world leaders in Munich.

“The leadership claim of the U.S. is being challenged, perhaps already lost,” Merz said during the opening of the Munich Security Conference, laying out the starkest assessment yet from Berlin of a world increasingly defined by great-power rivalry. “In the era of great powers, our freedom is no longer simply guaranteed. It is under threat.”

He argued the global system itself may already have collapsed. “The international order based on rights and rules … no longer exists in the way it once did,” he said.

Merz also drew a lesson from Germany’s own history. “We Germans know a world in which might makes right would be a dark place,” he said. “Our country has gone down this path in the 20th century until the bitter and dreadful end.”

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450,000 Menschen hatten Appell an Justizministerin unterschrieben.

"Our 60+ year embargo has been ineffective and counterproductive—it hurts the Cuban people, it strengthens hardliners, it gives rise to more refugees, and it undercuts our standing in the world," McGovern said in a social media publication.

Yuusha-kei ni Shosu Choubatsu Yuusha 9004 Tai Keimu Kiroku (Sentenced to Be a Hero), episode 5

Absolutely typical of what it's like to be a disabled person in the UK: no real help and left to languish until you die of something preventable.