• Joe Biden hosts Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the White House this Tuesday in hopes of releasing $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. In the House of Representatives, the shadow of Donald Trump, the Republican ultra-favorite for the election in November, rejects this aid and is initially calling for immigration laws to be tightened.
• Emmanuel Macron yesterday called on the meeting of Ukraine's allies in Paris to make a “start” to ensure Russia's “defeat”. He announced new measures to provide Kiev with more weapons and refused to rule out the option of sending Western troops in the future. This conference, hastily organized by the French President in the presence of 27 other countries, comes at a critical time for Ukraine as it awaits the Western weapons necessary for its survival.
• A drone strike blamed on Kiev left three people dead and three injured in the Russian border region of Belgorod, which is regularly bombed. “Three civilians died,” the local governor said on Telegram, adding that three other people were hospitalized after being injured in the explosion.
• Ukraine's president says he “doesn't understand” how former President Donald Trump can “side” with Russia in an interview with CNN. “I don’t understand how Donald Trump can be on Putin’s side. This is unthinkable,” he said in this interview broadcast on Monday evening. The Republican former president is urging his supporters in Congress to block $60 billion in U.S. military aid to Kiev.
• Ukraine received only 30% of the millions of artillery shells promised by the EU last year, Volodymyr Zelensky said at a news conference in Kiev on Monday, as the Kiev army is in trouble at the front and suffering from a lack of ammunition.
• The Ukrainian army announced its withdrawal from the small village of Lastochkyné near the city of Avdiivka, which fell more than a week ago after Russian forces claimed its capture. The capture of this industrial city represented the Russian army's first truly major territorial gain since the capture of Bakhmut in May 2023.
• Danish police concluded their investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, considering they did not have the “necessary basis” for prosecution. In addition to Denmark, two other investigations have been initiated, namely in Germany and Sweden. The Swedish public prosecutor's office closed its investigation at the beginning of February without filing any charges, while the investigation in Germany is still ongoing.