Kenyan Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi intends to negotiate with the Russian authorities and urge them to stop the recruitment of Kenyans into the Russian army to participate in the war against Ukraine. He said this in an interview with the BBC. The Kenyan government estimates the number of country citizens recruited by Russia at 200 people.

Bogodukhov Four people, including three small children, died as a result of a Russian drone strike on a private house in the town of Bogodukhov, said the head of the Kharkov regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. The National Police of Ukraine clarified that the victims were members of the same family. Among them are two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl, as well as the children's 34-year-old father. The children's mother, who is 35 weeks pregnant, was injured.

Vladimir Zelensky Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said he does not plan to announce presidential elections and a referendum on February 24, the fourth anniversary of the war with Russia. Earlier, the British newspaper Financial Times wrote about this. “This is the first time I’ve heard about the intention to announce the 24th [February 2026]. The first time I heard it was probably from the Financial Times. Now I’m hearing it for the second time from you.

The tumultuous start to 2026 has proven to be nontrivial in at least two ways. In one case, the Europeans were the victims, in the other - the judges. For the first time in decades, Europe finally felt like a victim. A deceived victim of an abuser who promised to protect her forever, but instead suddenly demanded a “piece of ice” from her and even threatened to take it away by force.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accepted Washington’s offer to hold a new round of negotiations in the United States to end the war with Russia. He spoke about this in an interview with Bloomberg. According to Zelensky, the meeting could take place next week, on February 17 or 18. However, it is unclear whether Russia will agree to negotiations in the United States.

Radio Liberty News: final release

Russian intercontinental missile "Topol", military-technical forum in the Moscow region, August 2017 A new arms race has unfolded in the world. Europe, China, and the countries of the Global South are arming themselves. The arms control and missile defense regimes collapsed. There is a drone revolution taking place on the battlefield, an artificial intelligence revolution. Will Russia be able to compete in the new arms race? How will this affect the outcome of the war in Ukraine?

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has granted Russia's request to extradite Yulia Emelyanova, an activist and former employee of Navalny's St. Petersburg headquarters. This was reported by the Anti-War Committee of Russia and the human rights project Kovcheg . The resolution to satisfy the appeal of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation was handed to her on January 29.

Photo from the telegram channel of Riga Bread LLC The Riga Bread company, as well as its owners - Latvian citizen Normunds Bomis and Ukrainian citizen Tatyana Prikhodko - are included in the register of terrorists and extremists maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. The information is published on the department's website.

At least 10 people were killed in a shooting at a high school in Tumbler Ridge in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. This was reported by the local police. Eight people, including the shooter who committed suicide, died in the school itself or on the way to the hospital. Two more people were found dead at a residence that police believe is connected to the shooter. An emergency alert sent to citizens' cellphones at the time of the shooting described the suspect as a woman.

Nurlan Saburov The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan intends to check comedian Nurlan Saburov under a criminal article on mercenarism due to his possible participation in supplying Russian military personnel. This was stated by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic Galymzhan Koigeldiev. According to Kazakhstani legislation, financing of armed conflicts entails criminal liability. The article provides for a punishment of seven to 12 years in prison.

Evgeniy Solonovich Translator of Italian poetry Evgeny Solonovich died at the age of 92. “On February 11, 2026, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Solonovich, who trained more than one generation of translators from Italian at the Literary Institute, who gave Russian literature the best lines of Italian poetry, passed away. We mourn together with our family, friends and students,” says the website of the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute. Evgeniy Solonovich was born on February 21, 1933 in Simferopol.

Anapa In Anapa, a shooting occurred at the entrance to the Industrial College. According to the latest data, one person died and there were injured. The shooter was reportedly a technical school student. The governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratyev, wrote on his telegram channel that a security guard had died. It was previously reported that he was seriously injured. According to Kondratyev, the security guard “reacted quickly and called law enforcement agencies.

Alexander Gabyshev goes to Moscow In 2024, the documentary film "The Tale of the Shaman" was released . Its authors, the spouses Beata Bashkirova and Mikhail Bashkirov, accompanied Alexander Gabyshev on his famous campaign against Moscow. This campaign, which was joined by sympathizers, was interrupted by the special services, and Alexander Gabyshev was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital. He has been under compulsory treatment for five years now.