These are the important thing developments from day 1,453 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Printed On 16 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, February 16:
Combating
- Russian forces launched assaults throughout Ukraine on Sunday, wounding six individuals within the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk area, three within the northeastern Sumy area, and two within the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, the Ukrinform information outlet reported, citing native officers.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russia has launched about 1,300 drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs and dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine over the previous week alone.
- About 1,600 buildings within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, remained with out warmth on Sunday following current Russian assaults on Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure, officers stated.
- Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba stated Russian strikes in a single day on Sunday had broken railroad infrastructure within the southern area of Odesa and the Dnipropetrovsk area.
- The Ukrainian army stated in an announcement that it hit a key oil terminal in southern Russia, close to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula, on Sunday. The assault was on the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal close to the village of Volna within the Krasnodar area.
- Ukrainian forces additionally launched a drone assault on the Russian Black Sea port of Taman, which handles oil merchandise, grain, coal and commodities, inflicting harm and triggering a number of fires, in accordance with Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar area. He stated greater than 100 individuals have been working to place out the fires.
- Kondratyev stated there have been extra Ukrainian assaults on the Russian resort metropolis of Sochi and the village of Yurovka, near the seaside city of Anapa. They induced much less vital harm, he added.
- Russian air defences downed 5 drones approaching the Russian capital, Moscow, in accordance with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
- A Ukrainian assault additionally left 5 municipalities within the Russian border area of Bryansk and components of its capital with out warmth and electrical energy, Governor Alexander Bogomaz stated.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated on Sunday that its troops had taken the village of Tsvitkove within the southeastern Zaporizhia region, in accordance with the TASS information company. Russia controls about 75 % of the Zaporizhia area, however battle traces had been largely static since 2022 till current Russian advances.
- Russia’s military chief, Valery Gerasimov, stated on Sunday that Russian troops had seized a dozen villages in jap Ukraine in February. He made the announcement whereas visiting Russian troops in Ukraine, the AFP information company reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine’s Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested the nation’s former vitality minister, German Galushchenko, who resigned in November amid an enormous corruption scandal, as he tried to cross Ukraine’s border.
- Zelenskyy stated in an announcement that Ukraine has agreed to new vitality and army assist packages with European allies.
- The European Union’s overseas coverage chief, Kaja Kallas, stated she felt that the bloc’s governments weren’t prepared to provide Ukraine a date for membership into the EU, regardless of calls for from Zelenskyy.
- Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics echoed Kallas’s feedback, saying that “there is no such thing as a readiness to just accept a date” for Ukrainian membership. He added that he has little hope of an imminent peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused Ukraine of delaying the restart of a pipeline carrying Russian oil to Jap Europe through Ukraine to “blackmail” Hungary to drop its opposition to Ukraine’s future EU membership.
- North Korean chief Kim Jong Un presided over the completion ceremony of a brand new housing district in Pyongyang for households of troops who died in abroad army operations, state media KCNA reported. It’s believed that greater than 6,000 North Korean soldiers were killed whereas preventing alongside Russian troops in Ukraine.
- Russia won’t finish the militarisation of its financial system after preventing in Ukraine ends, the pinnacle of Latvia’s intelligence company, Egils Zviedris, advised the AFP information company on the sidelines of the Munich Safety Convention, which ended on Sunday.
