U.K. to deploy aircraft carrier strike group to Arctic regions amid Russian threat concerns, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces at Munich Security Conference.

Due to Meta’s unwillingness to comply with Russian law, such a decision was indeed made and implemented,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Envoys from Russia and Ukraine are to meet for a new round of U.S.-brokered talks in Geneva next week as both sides keep fighting and trading long-range strikes.

Twenty athletes from Russia and Belarus are competing at the Winter Olympics as neutral. Moscow has asked for its athletes to be fully reinstated in international competition, and sporting bodies are beginning to open the door to those once completely banned from participating.

Russia still has many air defenses, and experience it gained against Ukraine actually makes them a bigger threat to NATO aircraft than before 2022.

Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp in the country, the company said, the latest move in an ongoing government effort to tighten control over the internet. A WhatsApp spokesperson said late Wednesday that the Russian authorities' action was intended to “drive users to a state-owned surveillance app,

The head of the international ice hockey federation, Luc Tardif, says he would like Russia and Belarus to return to international competition "as soon as possible".