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Zelenskyy Urges US Response to Russian Attacks as Talks Continue; Other Global Events Unfold
Amidst ongoing diplomatic talks in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the United States to respond to recent Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, according to Euronews. Zelenskyy stated that Russia had violated the "energy truce" proposed by the US, designed to halt strikes on energy facilities during diplomacy and severe winter weather. "We await the reaction of America to the Russian strikes," Zelenskyy said.
The renewed calls for action came as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte made a secretive visit to Kyiv on February 3rd, as reported by Euronews. Rutte toured a damaged energy site in Kyiv that supplies heat to thousands of residents, following a major missile and drone assault across Ukraine. Temperatures in the city were reportedly minus 25 degrees Celsius. During the visit, Rutte met with Zelenskyy and stressed the urgent need for air defense support for Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal emphasized the need to better protect power and heating networks and called for faster deliveries of air defense systems, Euronews noted.
In other international news, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi stated that agents from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have no operational role in the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, according to Al Jazeera. Piantedosi clarified that ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) would operate only within US diplomatic missions and would not have any executive function. The deployment of ICE agents had prompted protests in Milan.
Meanwhile, in France, a 60-year-old art teacher was in "very worrying" condition after being stabbed multiple times by a 14-year-old student at La Guicharde secondary school in Sanary-sur-Mer on Tuesday, Euronews reported. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said the teacher was in stable condition after surgery. The student reportedly stabbed the teacher three to four times with a 10-centimetre Opinel knife in front of approximately 20 other students.
Separately, Sky News reported on emails revealing that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein made repeated attempts to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin from 2013 onwards, through the former Norwegian PM Thorbjorn Jagland. While Putin's name appears over 1,000 times in the released files, there is no evidence that the two ever met, and the inclusion of his name does not imply any wrongdoing, according to Sky News.
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