Ukrainian authorities may be ready to make the most difficult concession in negotiations with Russia and give up control over territory in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, The Atlantic journalist Simon Shuster reported, citing two advisers to the Ukrainian president.

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin explained why he supports Ukraine. Brief retelling This is a brief retelling of the statement by the creator of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin , which he made on February 12. It will soon be four years since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. I look at it from different perspectives: I was born in Russia, but grew up in Canada.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said his country is not losing the war with Russia, and he will not force the people to accept a “bad agreement” on peace. He spoke about this in an interview with The Atlantic journalist Simon Shuster. According to the journalist, Zelensky repeated several times during their meeting that he would not accept a peace agreement on humiliating terms.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov criticized the attempts of the Russian authorities to “directly impose” “another application” on the residents of the country by blocking Telegram. Durov did not specify what this “other application” was, but he probably meant the state messenger Max. “As an argument for blocking Telegram and forcibly transferring Russians to another application, they sometimes cite the example of China and its WeChat messenger. But this comparison is wrong,” says Durov.

The Meta company received a patent in December 2025 for a large language model to simulate a person’s activity on social networks during his absence, Business Insider reports. The publication got acquainted with the patent, where the main author of the technology is the technical director of the company, Andrew Bosworth. The patent application was filed in 2023.

Gisele Pelicot gave her first television interview. She told how she learned that her husband was bringing other men to her to rape her. She was unconscious at the time Giselle Pelicot after one of the court hearings Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose husband drugged her with tranquilizers for years and brought dozens of strangers to rape her, has given her first television interview. On the evening of February 11, she appeared on the air of France 5.

Tom Homan, who serves as the “border czar ” in the Donald Trump administration, said that the US president supported his proposal to complete an operation in Minnesota to identify and deport immigrants without legal status. “I proposed, and President Trump agreed, to complete this massive operation,” Homan told reporters at a press conference on February 12 (quoted by Reuters). The operation, conducted in Minnesota, involved three thousand immigration agents.

Apple users from Russia complained that the company began to restrict access to a number of services in their Apple ID accounts, RBC writes . We are talking about Russians whose data partially or completely coincides with the data of people subject to sanctions. The IPhones.ru portal and the Shot telegram channel published screenshots of notifications that Russian Apple users received from the corporation.

The Kremlin has prepared a memorandum with proposals for economic partnership with the United States, Bloomberg reported, citing a document that was distributed among senior Russian officials.

Lockdowns have affected all of Russia. The only hope is VPN. Almost no one wants to install Max - just on principle Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images A new stage of Telegram “slowdown” has begun in Russia: messages about the service’s inoperability are coming from all over the country. To understand what’s really going on, on February 10—the day when the complaints were the most widespread—we asked you, Meduza readers, to tell us about your experience.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court arrested the former chairman of the board of directors of the FESCO transport group Andrei Severilov, RBC reports. Severilov and FESCO Vice President for Production Development Boris Ivanov were detained in Moscow on charges of embezzlement on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code). According to an RBC source, Severilov was detained on February 11; during interrogation, the defendants in the case did not admit guilt.

The son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov, after an accident in Grozny, spent three weeks in the Botkin hospital in Moscow, where his spleen was removed, Novaya Gazeta Europe claims, citing sources. As a result of a head injury, journalists reported, 18-year-old Kadyrov was diagnosed with a crack in his jaw. He was prescribed a strict diet for six months.

On the contrary, for civilians, 2025 turned out to be the deadliest year of the war after 2022 Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Farewell to three children from the same family who died in a Russian strike on the Zhytomyr region in May 2025 The investigative group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has prepared a report on civilians killed and injured as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2025.

Leslie Nielsen is 100 years old. He starred in dozens of unsuccessful films. And yet he remained the most beloved comedy actor for so many CBS/Getty Images Leslie Nielsen during TV Comedy Classics, 1997 Leslie Nielsen was born on February 11, 1926, one of the funniest actors in the history of cinema, who became famous for his roles as extremely serious idiots.

We are unlikely to reassure you, but the jump in value should soon come to naught. But the problem of inflation will not go away Vitaly Timkiv / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia The rise in cucumber prices at the beginning of the year shocked Russians. However, the authorities and experts are not sounding the alarm: the cost of this particular vegetable should begin to fall by spring.