🇺🇦 Ukrainian arms producers have received the first wartime licences to export their goods abroad, the secretary of Kyiv's national security and defence council said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukrainian-arms-producers-receive-first-wartime-export-licences-kyiv-says-2026-02-12/

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💬 Russian oil transit to eastern Europe via the Ukrainian part of the Druzhba oil pipeline has been suspended since January 27 owing to a Russian attack, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-oil-transit-via-druzhba-pipeline-suspended-ukraine-foreign-ministry-says-2026-02-12/

🇬🇧🇺🇦 The UK has announced it will urgently provide new air defence missiles and systems worth over £500 million to protect #Ukraine from Putin’s brutal attacks on energy sites and homes.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-urgent-new-air-defence-package-for-ukraine-worth-over-half-a-billion-pounds

🇮🇳 🇷🇺 Security risks are prompting #India to pull out of a lithium project in Mali backed by #Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, sources said, as New Delhi seeks to safeguard its investments in the politically unstable West African nation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-pulls-out-russian-backed-mali-lithium-project-over-security-risks-sources-2026-02-12/

🇺🇦 Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Milan Cortina Games after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to use a helmet other than the one that honors athletes killed in the war with Russia.

https://apnews.com/article/heraskevych-helmet-ukraine-olympics-skeleton-9f304e1ff834ddab33af2f4e003f04a8

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🇷🇺🇨🇺 #Russia is preparing to dispatch crude oil and fuel cargoes to #Cuba in the near future, Izvestia newspaper said on Thursday, citing the Russian embassy in Cuba.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-deliver-crude-oil-fuel-cuba-soon-izvestia-newspaper-reports-2026-02-12/

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Morning Briefing:

- SBU sends text warning Russians are trying to recruit Ukrainians to register Starlink terminals
- Ukraine advances in Zaporizhzhia after Russian troops lose Starlink access
- US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025
- UK pledges $205m to send US weapons to Ukraine
- Czech ammunition scheme for Kyiv faces funding shortfalls
- Russian losses in Ukraine 'astonishing,' former MI6 chief says

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian drones struck a Russian military plant in Michurinsk, Tambov Oblast, and a Defense Ministry site in Kotluban, Volgograd Oblast, overnight on Feb. 11-12, independent media and local authorities reported.

https://kyivindependent.com/tambov-draft/

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💬 Oleh Handei, a Ukrainian short track speed skater, said on Feb. 11 that he will not be allowed to wear his custom helmet at the Olympic Games in Milan because it is inscribed with a line of Ukrainian poetry.

https://kyivindependent.com/remembrance-is-not-a-violation-third-ukrainian-athlete-barred-from-wearing-helmet-at-olympics/

#olympics #ukraine