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Russia launches record missile barrage against Ukraine one day before peace talks set to resume in Abu Dhabi

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia carried out a large-scale overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure using a record number of ballistic missiles, one day before peace talks with Moscow and Washington are set to resume in Abu Dhabi.
Zelenskyy said the attack involved more than 70 missiles — among them 32 ballistic and 28 cruise — as well as more than 450 attack drones that targeted eight regions, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said five people were injured and three more were rescued in Kharkiv after a drone strike caused a fire in a residential high-rise building.
«The Russian army exploited the U.S. proposal to briefly halt strikes not to support diplomacy, but to stockpile missiles and wait until the coldest days of the year, when temperatures across large parts of Ukraine drop below -20°C (-4°F),» Zelenskyy wrote on X.
RUSSIA, UKRAINE TO DISCUSS TERRITORY AS TRUMP SAYS BOTH SIDES ‘WANT TO MAKE A DEAL’
The upper floors of a multi-story building burn after debris from a Russian drone fell in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 3, 2026. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
The large-scale strikes came after President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for one week, as freezing temperatures caused widespread power and heating outages.
Trump announced the weeklong pause Thursday, but Russia resumed its attacks several days before the period was set to expire, striking a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia and a bus of Ukrainian miners, leaving 12 people dead.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
ZELENSKYY ANNOUNCES NEXT ROUND OF TALKS WITH US, RUSSIA AS UKRAINE AIMS FOR ‘REAL AND DIGNIFIED END TO THE WAR

Kyiv residents shelter at the Dorohozhychi subway station during a Russian drone-and-missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 3, 2026. (Ihor Kuznietsov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Residents took to subway and metro stations on Monday to hide underground as air raid alerts sounded throughout the night.
«With temperatures dropping to -25°C (-13°F), Russia knowingly yet again aims to leave hundreds of thousands of people, including children and the elderly, without heating or electricity,» said Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s prime minister.
«This is an attempt to freeze civilians into surrender. Thanks to Ukraine’s air defense forces, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted,» she added.

Rescuers extinguish a fire in a multi-story building hit by debris from a Russian drone in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 3, 2026. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Zelenskyy said the work of his negotiating team will be «adjusted accordingly» as his country prepares for another round of meetings in the United Arab Emirates with U.S. and Russian officials on Wednesday and Thursday.
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U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev in Florida on Saturday and said the discussions were constructive, amid ongoing hostilities in Ukraine.
«We are encouraged by this meeting that Russia is working toward securing peace in Ukraine and is grateful for @POTUS’s critical leadership in seeking a durable and lasting peace,» Witkoff wrote on X.
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Pair of Democrat lawmakers slam ‘blockade of fuel’ to Cuba, ‘economic bombing’ after visit to island

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Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., said after a congressional delegation returned from Cuba that U.S. economic restrictions on the island represented an «illegal U.S. blockade of fuel» and «effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country.»
The lawmakers, following their five-day delegation to Cuba, spoke out against what they described as a humanitarian crisis on the island that they argue is linked to the U.S. embargo.
«The illegal U.S. blockade of fuel to Cuba—90 miles south of the United States—adds to the longest embargo in world history and is causing untold suffering to the Cuban people,» the lawmakers said in a statement on Sunday. «The United States prevented a single drop of oil from entering Cuba for over three months. This is cruel collective punishment—effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country—that has produced permanent damage. It must stop immediately.»
US ALLOWS RUSSIAN OIL TANKER TO REACH CUBA AMID BLOCKADE AS TRUMP SAYS ISLAND ‘HAS TO SURVIVE’
Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan Jackson said after a delegation to Cuba that there was a humanitarian crisis on the island. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«We witnessed firsthand premature babies in incubators, weighing just two pounds, who are at tremendous risk because their ventilators and incubators cannot function without electricity,» they continued. «Children cannot attend school because there is no fuel for them or their teachers to travel. Cancer patients cannot receive lifesaving treatments because of lack of medications. There is a water shortage because there is little electricity to pump water. Businesses have closed. Families cannot keep food refrigerated, and food production on the island has dropped to just 10 percent of the people’s needs.»
This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his pressure campaign on Cuba in recent weeks, calling the island a «failed nation» and suggesting that «Cuba is next» following recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela and Iran.
The trip came after Jayapal and Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., introduced legislation to block federal funds for military action against Cuba without congressional approval.

The two lawmakers spoke out against what they described as an «illegal U.S. blockade of fuel» and «effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country.» (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Jayapal and Jackson said they spoke with families, religious leaders, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations, the Cuban government, Latin American and African ambassadors, humanitarian aid organizations and Cubans across the political spectrum, including dissidents.
«Across all sectors, there is agreement: this illegal blockade must end immediately. We do not believe that the majority of Americans would want this kind of cruelty and inhumanity to continue in our name,» the lawmakers said.
The pair added that the Cuban government «has sent many signals that this is a new moment for the country.»
«While we were there, President Diaz-Canel released over 2,000 prisoners. The Cuban government has begun to liberalize its economy with significant reforms, including allowing Cuban American entrepreneurs to invest in private businesses in Cuba. Entrepreneurship has grown substantially, with small- and medium-sized private businesses now comprising large parts of the economy,» the statement said.
CUBA RELEASES 2,000 PRISONERS AMID TRUMP PRESSURE, ENERGY CRISIS

U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his pressure campaign on Cuba in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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«Significantly, the Cuban government has invited in the FBI to conduct an independent investigation of a lethal speedboat shooting,» it continued. «The remaining obstacles to progress in Cuba now rest with the United States changing our outdated, Cold War-era policy of coercive economic measures and military pressures against Cuba.»
Jayapal and Jackson went on to say that «true reform will only come from charting a new course.»
«The United States and Cuba must immediately enter into real negotiations that provide for the dignity and freedom of the Cuban people and the tremendous benefits to the American people that will accrue from a real collaboration between our two countries,» they concluded.
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La increíble historia detrás de “El Principito” y cómo Antoine de Saint-Exupéry lo escribió en Nueva York

La historia detrás de una obra que reflejó el dolor de su autor y un tiempo convulso
A 83 años de su publicación, El Principito permanece como uno de los cinco libros más leídos del mundo. Concebido por Antoine de Saint-Exupéry durante su exilio en Nueva York en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la obra nació del intento del aviador y escritor francés por hallar alivio personal y distanciarse de la guerra y sus episodios de depresión. La profunda melancolía que embargaba a Saint-Exupéry en esos años —marcada por peleas políticas, crisis personales y la distancia de su esposa Consuelo Suncín, retenida por el conflicto en Europa— resultó el trasfondo emocional y existencial donde germinó la novela.
El deceso del autor, ocurrido tras despegar en una operación aliada el 31 de julio de 1944 en el sur de Francia, amplificó el aura mítica de su obra. La autenticidad de la desaparición de Saint-Exupéry fue confirmada solo en el año 2000, cuando el Estado francés reconoció restos de fuselaje hallados en el Mediterráneo y una pulsera con la inscripción “Consuelo”. La pieza manuscrita original de Le petit Prince, compuesta por 125 páginas mecanografiadas y numerosos borradores, fue entregada antes de esa partida a Sylvia Hamilton, periodista estadounidense con la que mantuvo una relación personal en el exilio, y años después vendida al Museo Biblioteca Morgan en Nueva York, donde permanece actualmente expuesta.
Durante la ocupación nazi de Francia, Saint-Exupéry residía en un departamento elevado del Central Park. Allí, a pesar de su éxito como autor de Tierra de hombres y Piloto de guerra —obras que vendían cientos de miles de ejemplares en Estados Unidos y se publicaban en los principales diarios internacionales—, el escritor vivió uno de los períodos más sombríos de su vida. Conflictos entre franceses exiliados, acusaciones de “traidor” por su desconfianza hacia Charles de Gaulle y la presión de su propia salud, deteriorada por accidentes aéreos previos, sumaron pesadumbre a su existencia.
En ese contexto, la sugerencia de Elizabeth Reynal, esposa de uno de sus editores norteamericanos y traductora ocasional, lo impulsó a canalizar su creatividad hacia un relato destinado a niños. Reynal, según narró en The New York Times el 31 de mayo de 1993 y recogido por biógrafos, notó que Saint-Exupéry dibujaba con frecuencia un niño de cabello rubio y bufanda larga en servilletas y papeles. Tras insistir en que abandonara por unas horas la obsesión por la guerra, el autor dio comienzo esa misma noche a la frase inicial: “Cuando yo tenía seis años una vez vi una lámina magnífica en un libro sobre el Bosque Virgen…”.
En apenas tres meses, Saint-Exupéry completó la narración central del aviador caído en el desierto frente a un pequeño príncipe proveniente de otro planeta. Pese a carecer de formación artística, el autor ilustró la primera edición con pintura en acuarela, seleccionando cuarenta viñetas originales. El escritor suizo Denis de Rougemont, testigo del proceso en los rascacielos de Manhattan, lo describió como “gigante calvo con los ojos redondos de un pájaro exótico… concentrado en aplicar pequeñas pinceladas pueriles”.

El libro, editado inicialmente en inglés como The Little Prince en abril de 1943, tuvo una primera tirada de 30.000 ejemplares; cifra que resultó cautelosa dada la expectativa de que el público estadounidense esperara “otras aventuras aéreas” del célebre piloto y cronista.
Antes de marcharse a Argelia para reincorporarse a la escuadrilla aliada 2/33 —pese a edad y lesiones que teóricamente lo inhabilitaban para volar—, Saint-Exupéry concluyó el prólogo de El Principito. Dedicó la obra a su amigo Léon Werth, justificando así la elección: “Esa persona mayor es el mejor amigo que tengo en el mundo… vive en Francia, donde tiene hambre y frío. Tiene verdadera necesidad de consuelo… Corrijo, pues mi dedicatoria: A Léon Werth, cuando era niño”.

Durante el último año de su vida, el autor luchó infructuosamente para retomar misiones de vuelo. Su prestigio le permitió, tras apelaciones incluso al comandante supremo Dwight Eisenhower, volver a pilotar el P3Lightning, con el que despegó por última vez desde la base aliada en Córcega. Mientras tanto, El Principito atravesaba un inicio editorial poco auspicioso, aunque en paralelo Saint-Exupéry continuaba trabajando en otro proyecto extensa y obsesivamente: el ensayo Ciudadela, publicado de forma póstuma.
La primera edición francesa de Le petit Prince apareció en 1947. Al español llegó en 1951. Desde entonces, la novela ha sido traducida a alrededor de 200 idiomas y dialectos, incluido el braille, y han surgido adaptaciones teatrales, cinematográficas, televisivas, coreográficas y operísticas. Las cifras de ventas acumuladas rondan los 200 millones de ejemplares, con al menos un millón de copias vendidas anualmente.
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