Defence`s Feeds

Finnish and Swedish politicians on Tuesday underscored Europe's interests in ongoing peace efforts as the United States and Russia held closed-door talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

Washington has appointed U.S. President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg to represent the United States in negotiations on Ukraine, local media reported on Tuesday, citing Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov.

On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda had a telephone call with the President of the European Council, António Costa, to discuss the security of Ukraine and the European Union, support for Ukraine, and potential peace negotiations.

On Wednesday evening, President Gitanas Nausėda participated in a conference call with other European leaders to discuss the security of Ukraine and Europe.

A war of words is intensifying between the Ukrainian and U.S. presidents as Volodymyr Zelensky has hit back at Donald Trump's accusation that Ukraine started the ongoing war with Russia.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traded accusations after high-level talks between Russia and the US in Saudi Arabia, with Trump saying Ukraine "should have never started" the conflict and that Ukraine "could have made a deal earlier," while Zelensky hit back by saying Trump is trapped in a "disinformation bubble" and that Ukraine is not for sale.

Russia shot down 21 Ukrainian drones late Tuesday, but a drone attack on an oil pumping station in southern Russia reduced oil supplies for Kazakhstan and the global market, Russian officials said.

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A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single telemetered joint test assembly re-entry vehicle Feb. 19 fom Vandenberg SFB.

In St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin visited Radar MMS, a research and production enterprise specialising in the development of guidance systems for precision-guided weapons, radar systems, and military and civilian unmanned aerial vehicles.

On Wednesday 19 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard received Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the Islamic Republic has launched a pilot project for extracting and purifying helium from natural gas for the first time, praising the move as a "strategic step" for the country.

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Intelligence forces with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have dismantled multiple espionage networks linked to the United States and Israel in the country's northern province of Mazandaran.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence forces have successfully dismantled networks linked to the U.S. and the Israeli regime, and other hostile nations in Mazandaran province, northern Iran.

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The 13th meeting of Malaysia-India Defence Cooperation Committee (MIDCOM) took place in Kuala Lumpur on February 19, 2025

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on practising multilateralism, reforming and improving global governance.

Denpasar (Republic of Indonesia) is hosting the International symposium on security in the framework of the Komodo 2025 Multilateral International Naval Exercise. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyov spoke on behalf of the Russian delegation.

The corvettes Rezky and Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov took part in the opening ceremony of the Komodo 2025 international naval exercise in the city of Denpasar on the Bali Island, the Republic of Indonesia.