These are the important thing developments from day 1,464 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Printed On 27 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Friday, February 27:
Combating
- Russian forces launched 720 assaults on 31 settlements in Ukraine’s entrance line Zaporizhia area, killing one particular person and injuring eight others, regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on the Telegram platform. The assaults included drone strikes, artillery shelling and three missile strikes, Fedorov stated.
- Ten folks, together with an eight-year-old youngster, had been additionally injured in an in a single day Russian assault on the regional capital, Zaporizhzhia metropolis, the area’s army administration stated. Russian strikes broken about 80 high-rise buildings and personal homes in three districts of town, in addition to two procuring centres, the administration added.
- Russian forces injured 16 folks, together with two kids, in assaults on the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated in a put up on Fb.
- A Russian first-person-view (FPV) drone reached Ukraine’s Kharkiv area on Tuesday, marking the primary time Ukraine had detected such a drone reaching the area, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Workplace stated in an announcement. The drone hit a tree and no accidents had been reported, the workplace added.
- Ukrainian missiles struck the Russian border city of Belgorod, inflicting critical harm on power installations and disrupting energy, water and heating, the area’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated early on Friday.
- Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov stated on Telegram on Thursday that “almost 10,000 clients within the metropolis are quickly with out energy” following “common shelling of Belgorod’s energy services by the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.
- Belgorod’s operational headquarters additionally stated on Thursday that at the least 115 Ukrainian drones had been launched in direction of the area in a 24-hour interval.
- Greater than 90,000 Ukrainians are thought-about to be “lacking underneath particular circumstances”, the Ukrainska Pravda media outlet reported, citing Ukraine’s commissioner for lacking folks, Artur Dobroserdov. These lacking embody members of the army in addition to civilians, together with kids, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
- Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Therapy of Prisoners of Struggle stated that Ukraine had obtained the stays of 1,000 our bodies from Russia, “which, in accordance with preliminary data from the Russian facet, might belong to Ukrainian defenders”.
- Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky confirmed in a put up on Telegram that Russia had handed over the our bodies of 1,000 “fallen Ukrainian troopers” to Kyiv and obtained 35 our bodies of Russian troopers.
- The trade adopted recent trilateral talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland.
Peace negotiations
- Ukrainian and US officers once more met in Geneva on Thursday to debate post-war reconstruction, at the same time as a deal to finish the conflict stays elusive, the Reuters information company reported.
- Putin’s particular financial envoy Kirill Dmitriev stated Russian officers additionally held talks with US officers on Thursday, the RIA Novosti information company reported.
Politics and diplomacy
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Russia stated on Thursday it could retaliate towards a European Union determination to chop Moscow’s diplomatic illustration in Brussels, and that the transfer confirmed the EU didn’t deserve to participate in negotiations on ending the conflict in Ukraine.
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Russian Ministry of International Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated the EU determination to restrict the dimensions of the Russian mission to 40 folks was “discriminatory” and wouldn’t go unanswered.
- Zakharova additionally stated that any deployment of British troops in Ukraine would lengthen the conflict and convey an “enhance within the threat of a large-scale army confrontation involving many extra states”, following a latest newspaper article by British Defence Minister John Healey.
- French Ministry of Defence spokesperson Olivia Penichou informed reporters that Russia’s accusation that Ukraine was creating a “soiled” nuclear bomb was “baseless”, accusing Russia of utilizing “disinformation to foster a local weather of distrust”.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban requested the EU to ship a “fact-finding mission” to evaluate harm to the Druzhba oil pipeline in Ukraine, in a letter seen by Reuters. The request follows after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that repairs to the pipeline that provides Hungary and Slovakia with oil had been taking an prolonged time frame because of ongoing Russian assaults.
Regional safety
- Swedish broadcaster SVT reported {that a} suspected Russian drone approached France’s Charles de Gaulle plane service whereas it was docked in Sweden’s Malmo. Swedish Minister of Defence Pal Jonson confirmed there had been a violation of Swedish airspace on the identical time a Russian army ship was in Swedish waters.
- Romania scrambled fighter jets on Thursday when a drone breached its nationwide airspace throughout a Russian assault on Ukrainian infrastructure close to the border, Romania’s Ministry of Nationwide Defence stated, the second airspace breach in as many days.
Sanctions
- The US has prolonged the deadline to April 1 for firms to barter with US-sanctioned Russian oil firm Lukoil over its worldwide belongings, in accordance with a doc from the Workplace of International Property Management seen by Reuters.
