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Russian soldiers in southeastern Belarus "settled in the surrounding forests," one local resident said. "They drink a lot and sell a lot of their diesel fuel."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Munich Security Conference on February 19, his office said, despite U.S. warnings of a Russian invasion.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has said any further invasion of Ukraine by Russia will be met by a bolstering of NATO’s eastern flank. 

Russia-backed separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization amid growing invasion fears.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Iran not to spoil the ongoing talks aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear agreement. 

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, said on February 19 that the kingdom was looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with Iran despite a "lack of substantive progress" in previous rounds.

Russia has test-fired its latest hypersonic ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles as part of "planned” drills, the Kremlin said on February 19, as tensions escalate over Ukraine.

Amid growing fears of a possible Russian invasion, NATO has relocated Ukraine staff from Kyiv while the German airline Lufthansa has announced that it is suspending flights to and from the Ukrainian capital and Odesa.

There is little enthusiasm among ordinary Turkmen about the March 12 presidential election, which is seen as a mere formality for authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov to hand the presidency to his son, Serdar.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on February 19 that Russia's military was "poised to strike" Ukraine, even as he voiced hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin would step back from the brink of war.