Links to TWO reports: from the Associated Press and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Scroll down for UKRAINE 2-9-26 and WEST BANK and MEDIA.) — MCM

NOTE: Other perspectives are at the Moscow Times (based in Belgium); Kyiv Post and the Kyiv Independent (both operating under martial law); and Tass (a Russian state news service). Each is a click away.

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EU drafts a list of concessions it says Russia must make to secure real peace in Ukraine, by Lorne Cook | AP  BRUSSELS — The European Union is drafting a list of concessions that it believes Russia must make to secure any long-term peace in Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat said Tuesday, as U.S.-run talks to end four years of war show little sign of progress. READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 9  Russian forces pressuring Pokrovsk as ‘last battles’ rage, by Dan Peleschuk | Reuters  KYIV — Russian forces are trying to press forward around the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s military said on Monday, hoping to conclude a months-long campaign to seize the strategic hub as Moscow seeks to capture the whole of the Donetsk region. READ MORE . . .

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