🇺🇦🇦🇿 - Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy met with the President of Azerbaijan, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, at the Munich Security Conference, where both the Ukrainian and Azerbaijani sides discussed billateral relations between both countries

In Statement, Ukraine's Zelenskyy said:

During the meeting with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. I informed him about the general situation in the energy system and the consequences of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure facilities.

I am grateful for the recent energy support package. We discussed the development of bilateral relations and the implementation of projects in the energy sector, in which Azerbaijan is interested.

We also paid attention to the negotiation process for establishing peace. Ukraine always constructively supports efforts that can help achieve a decent peace.
The only reason why the war is still ongoing is Russia's unwillingness to end it.

@thewarreporterr

🇾🇪❌🛥 — Maritime vessel attacked by three skiffs 70 nautical miles southwest of Aden, Yemen. Small arms fire reported, says UKMTO

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — BREAKING: The U.S. is currently significantly increasing its airpower presence in the Middle East as part of the military buildup against Iran.

New deployments include:

— 18 F-35A fighter jets

— 12 F-22s

— 36 F-16s

— 2 E-3 AWACS aircraft

— Up to 18 F-15E strike fighters

📝All of these are in addition to all the aircraft already deployed in the region, including the Lincoln carrier strike group.

⚡️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - This is simultaneous to the deployment of another 12 "F-22 Raptor" Stealth Fighter Jets from the "Langley" Airbase, enroute to the United Kingdom's "RAF Lakenheath" Airbase and inevitably to the CENTCOM, supported by 1 "KC-46A" Tanker.

🇺🇸🤝🇵🇭 — The United States pledged about $395M to the Philippines, planning to deploy more missile launchers, and reaffirms that an armed attack on Philippine (or U.S.) forces in the South China Sea would trigger obligations under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.

➡️ The United States plans to deploy more high-tech missile systems to the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies on Tuesday condemned what they called China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”

➡️ Beijing has repeatedly expressed alarm over the installation in the northern Philippines of a U.S. mid-range missile system called the Typhon in 2024 and of an anti-ship missile launcher last year. It said the U.S. weapons were aimed at containing China’s rise and warned that these were a threat to regional stability.

➡️ China has asked the Philippines to withdraw the missile launchers from its territory, but officials led by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have rejected the demand.

➡️ U.S. and Philippine officials held annual talks Monday in Manila on broadening security, political and economic engagements and boosting collaboration with regional security allies.

🔗 Source: The AP

🇩🇿 🏭 🇪🇺 Algeria confirmed that work on the 4,100 km Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline will resume soon.

The project would move 30 bcm per year from Nigeria → Niger → Algeria → Mediterranean → Europe.

Why this matters:

• 30 bcm = ~6–7% of pre-war EU gas demand
• Direct sub-Saharan route into Europe
• Strategic diversification away from Russian flows

If completed, this is not just infrastructure.

It’s a geopolitical corridor.

Europe wants supply security.
Algeria wants transit leverage.
Nigeria wants monetisation of stranded gas.

Execution risk remains high, security in the Sahel is fragile, and financing is complex.

But structurally, Europe is still short molecules.

And Africa is sitting on them.

📎 Jack Prandelli

🇷🇺❌🇪🇺⚡️🇺🇦📌🗺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | EU Weighs Deploying Training Sites In Ukraine As Kremlin Warns: 'Legitimate Targets' | February 13, 2026:

"The European Union is weighing plans to set up two military bases inside Ukraine to train fresh troops - a move Moscow has already warned could make them targets of military strikes.

"We have been discussing the training of the Ukrainian soldiers, also on the soil of Ukraine," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Wednesday. "We have identified two training centers that could be used for that purpose."

The Kremlin made clear just a month ago: "The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns that the deployment of military units, military facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries on Ukrainian territory will be classified as foreign intervention, posing a direct threat to the security of not only Russia but also other European countries," according to the warning of spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

Western governments have already trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops over the course of the four-year grinding war with Russia - but this has been concentrated in countries like Britain, Denmark, and Poland."

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🇺🇸🛫🇻🇪 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Trump Plans Venezuela Trip, First U.S. President Visit Since Bill Clinton | February 13, 2026:

"President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday afternoon that he plans to visit Venezuela, but offered no details or timeline. If it happens, it would be a historic trip, coming as Venezuelan oil flows accelerate under tighter U.S. oversight.

"I'm going to make a visit to Venezuela... We haven't decided [when]," Trump told reporters, adding that he also had a "good meeting" with Venezuela's neighbor, Colombia.

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"We have a very good relationship with the president of Venezuela," Trump said, noting that the U.S. is "working together very closely" with Rodriguez on access to oil."

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