Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law obliging telecom operators to stop providing services at the request of the FSB. The document was published on the official legal information portal. The amendments will come into force 10 days after signing by the head of state.

Eshsou Kakalia Abkhaz opposition politician Eshsou Kakalia was taken to the Central Republican Hospital of Sukhumi on Saturday with a gunshot wound. Details of the injury have not yet been provided. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self-proclaimed republic, the circumstances of the incident are being clarified; Employees of the Sukhumi Internal Affairs Department were alerted and an interception plan was announced.

In Udmurtia, on Saturday night, the military Votkinsk plant, which produces missiles, was attacked. The head of the region, Alexander Brechalov, wrote on social networks that at night the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked “one of the targets.” According to him, the attack was carried out by drones. Brechalov noted that there was damage and casualties. The local Ministry of Health reported that 11 people were injured as a result of the attack on the republic.

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Consequences of the night attack on Odessa, February 21, 2026 On the night of Saturday, February 21, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 120 drones, the Ukrainian Air Force reported . A missile hit and 13 attack UAVs were recorded in 11 locations. As a result of the drone attack, there is destruction in two districts of Odessa.

Peter Szijjarto Hungary intends to block the EU loan package for Ukraine in the amount of 90 billion euros ($106 billion), which was previously approved by the European Commission. Budapest links its approval of the package with the resumption of Russian oil supplies. “We are blocking the EU loan to Ukraine until oil transit to Hungary via the Friendship pipeline resumes,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó wrote on social network X.

Nico Lange Nico Lange is a German security and defense expert. He is a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and a former official at the German Ministry of Defense. Lange has worked in Ukraine for a long time and understands Russian strategy well.

The 76th International Film Festival ends in Berlin. The jury of the main competition, headed by director Wim Wenders, awarded the Golden Bear to Ilker Çatak's film "Yellow Letters". The characters in this film, a married couple from Ankara, lead a happy life until an incident at the premiere of their new play changes everything. Overnight they become targets of the state and lose their jobs and homes. Englishman Grant Gee was named best director.

Alexander Bydanov in the hospital after being wounded during detention in the spring of 2024 44-year-old Alexander Bydanov, who in the spring of 2024 wounded the governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis with a knife, died in the war in Ukraine on January 4 of this year. His relatives reported this on Bydanov’s VKontakte page. Attention to The publication was addressed by the channel “Don’t wait for me from Ukraine”.

InterContinental Hotel in Geneva, where negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the USA took place Negotiations that lead nowhere? Whose side is US President Donald Trump on? How do wars of attrition end? We are discussing these and other questions today with an American specialist on Russia, the author of several books on post-Soviet Russia , Leon Aron , and a political scientist, an employee of the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University , Rajan Menon .

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During protests in Iran, January 8, 2026 In Iran, at least 30 activists face the death penalty in connection with recent mass protests in the country, DPA reported on Saturday, citing data from human rights activists from Amnesty International. The agency notes that a day earlier, Amnesty International reported that death sentences had already been imposed in eight cases. Among the defendants in 22 other cases still pending are two minors.

Yuri Drakokhrust Shouts from Moscow On February 9, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned that the West, including the United States, is preparing a “new color revolution” in Belarus.