February 14, 2025

Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  - 2025 Bukavu offensive
    - M23 rebels and Rwandan troops seize control of Kavumu Airport in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (DW)
    - M23 forces and Rwandan troops enter the city of Bukavu, according to local security and humanitarian officials. There are no reports of resistance as most Congolese troops withdraw. (Digital Journal)
    - Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi cancels his participation in an upcoming African Union summit to end the conflict due to the “situation on the ground”. Tshisekedi accuses Rwanda of invading the country to seize the country’s mineral-rich regions. (RFI)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike
  - A drone strikes the New Safe Confinement structure housing the site of the Chernobyl disaster. Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy states that a Russian combat drone caused significant damage to the structure, but did not produce an increase in external radiation levels. (CNN)
Insurgency in Balochistan
- At least eleven coal miners are killed and seven others are wounded after a bomb hit a truck in Harnai, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Express Tribune)

At least six people are killed and seven injured in a fire at a construction site in Busan, South Korea. (Al Jazeera)

At the Munich Security Conference US Vice-President JD Vance announces threat from within as the biggest problem for Europe, in particular too much censorship and too little control over migration. (Voice of America)

A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea detects a ghost neutrino particle that is 30 times more active than previously found. (AP)