These are the important thing developments from day 1,439 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Revealed On 2 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, February 1:
Preventing
- A Russian drone strike on a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area killed at least 12 people, based on officers.
- Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal denounced the strike as a “cynical and focused” assault on vitality staff. Their employer, DTEK, stated the victims have been ending a shift.
- One other Russian drone assault on the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro killed a person and a lady, whereas 9 folks have been wounded in Russian assaults on a maternity ward and a residential neighbourhood in Zaporizhzhia, officers stated. Amongst these injured have been two ladies present process medical examination.
- In a publish on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of making an attempt to disrupt logistics and connectivity between Ukrainian cities and communities by way of its drone, bomb and missile assaults. He stated Russia used greater than 980 assault drones, almost 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and two missiles towards Ukraine.
- Almost 700 house buildings stay with out heating within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, attributable to earlier Russian assaults on the nation’s vitality infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba stated, as a brand new wave of bitter chilly swept throughout a lot of the nation.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated its forces gained management over the village of Zelene in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, and the settlement of Sukhetske within the Donetsk area, based on the TASS information company. The ministry added that Russian forces hit amenities of transport infrastructure used within the pursuits of the Ukrainian military.
- Tech billionaire Elon Musk stated strikes by his SpaceX firm to cease Russia’s “unauthorised” use of its internet system Starlink appear to have labored, after Ukrainian officers reported discovering Starlink terminals on long-range drones utilized in Russian assaults.
- Ukrainian Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov stated Kyiv was growing a system that will permit solely authorised Starlink terminals to work on Ukrainian territory.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy stated a brand new spherical of trilateral talks between Russian, Ukrainian and US officers on a Washington-drafted plan to finish the almost four-year battle has been postponed to February 4 and 5 within the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.
- Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council, praised US President Donald Trump’s “brash” model as “efficient” in searching for peace, however added that Moscow had seen no hint of nuclear submarines that Trump claimed he had moved to Russian shores.
- Medvedev added in his interview with the Reuters and TASS information businesses that Trump “desires to go down in historical past as a peacemaker – and he’s actually making an attempt”, which explains “why contacts with Individuals have change into far more productive”.
- Medvedev additionally stated that European powers had didn’t defeat Russia in Ukraine, however had inflicted extreme financial hurt on themselves by making an attempt to take action.
- Russian Safety Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu held talks with Chinese language Minister of International Affairs Wang Yi in Beijing, with China’s high diplomat saying that bilateral relations between the 2 nations might “break new floor” this yr.
- Wang additionally instructed Shoigu that China and Russia should work collectively to uphold multilateralism in a time of “turmoil”, and “advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world”.
- The US and Russia’s New START pact, the ultimate treaty on the earth that restricted nuclear weapon deployment, is ready to run out on Thursday, and with it, restrictions on the 2 high nuclear powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin advised in September a one-year extension of New START, however little has been heard from Trump since he indicated final yr that an extension “appears like a good suggestion”.
