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12 February 2025
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February 2025 in brief
UNHCR said 10.6 million Ukrainians were displaced, almost a quarter of the pre-war population, and that 12.7 million people inside Ukraine needed humanitarian assistance, while the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission recorded 129 civilians killed and 588 injured in February. [1][2][3] A missile strike on an apartment building in Poltava killed at least 14 people, including two children, the State Emergency Service said, and a strike on a boarding school in Ukrainian-held Sudzha killed at least four, with Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other. [1][2] Zelensky said a drone struck the protective confinement over Chornobyl's destroyed reactor and started a fire, and the IAEA said the inner containment was not breached. [1] Trump said he and Putin had agreed to begin negotiations, and US and Russian delegations met in Riyadh without Ukrainian or European officials, after defence secretary Pete Hegseth called a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders unrealistic. [1][2] Trump called Zelensky a dictator without elections, and Zelensky said he was ready to give up the presidency if that achieved peace. On the third anniversary of the invasion, the UN General Assembly backed a resolution naming Russia the aggressor by 93 votes to 18, with the US voting against, and a White House meeting between Zelensky, Trump and JD Vance broke down with the minerals deal unsigned. [1][2] On the front, Ukrainian forces retook Pishchane south-west of Pokrovsk, and the sides exchanged 150 prisoners of war each. [1][2]
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Defence secretary Pete Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels that Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future aid to Ukraine, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic, and that the US could not be primarily focused on European security.
Government of the United States
12 Feb · to a foreign audience
Reported by The Guardian
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Government of the United States: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels that Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future aid to Ukraine, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic, and that the US could not be primarily focused on European security.