Local sources reported explosions in Paktika’s Margha area, Urgun area, and Nangarhar’s Khugiani area between 8:15 PM and 8:45 PM UTC on February 21, 2026, as Pakistani airstrikes continued targeting Taliban-linked sites in Afghanistan, according to X posts from @khorasandiary and @zarrar_11PK. A seminary in Margha was hit, and a camp of Majlis-e-Askari Karwan militants was destroyed.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned ultimatums and blackmail by the governments of Hungary and the Slovak Republic over energy supplies at 8:15-8:45 PM UTC window on February 21, 2026, calling them provocative amid ongoing Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, according to an official MFA statement on X.

Norwegian police in Agder initiated a search operation Saturday evening after a skier failed to return from a day trip, according to police statements. The operation began after the skier did not arrive back as expected.

Meteorologist BostonWxConsult posted a statement expressing intense shock at developing weather conditions off the East Coast at approximately 8:00-8:45 PM UTC on February 21, 2026, during this 59-minute reporting window, stating "Trying to refrain from using hyperbolic statements, but uh, holy shit," according to an X post from https://x.com/BostonWxConsult/status/2025298591871365606.