What did the world's news bring on 25 February 2019?
A look back at two reports from the days before 25 February 2019, one from Ukraine's Eurovision selection and one on Russia–US tensions.
What was on the agenda as of 25 February 2019? Two reports from the preceding days stood out, one cultural and one geopolitical.
On 23 February 2019, the singer MARUV won Ukraine's national selection for the 64th Eurovision Song Contest.
Two days earlier, on 21 February 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one. He was speaking in relation to new U.S. missile deployments in Europe.
The two items were unrelated. One concerned a song contest selection in Ukraine, the other the state of relations between Moscow and Washington.
