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Thursday, 12 February 2026, 02:18
Early on Sunday, February 1, Russian forces carried out an airstrike on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, dropping three FAB-250 aerial bombs. As a result of the attack, a 43-year-old woman was killed and another woman was injured.
Sweden is preparing one of its largest security assistance packages for Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have engaged in 44 combat clashes with Russian invaders since the beginning of the day, with the heaviest pressure from the invaders reported in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Eighteen facilities were damaged as a result of a Russian UAV attack in Zaporizhzhia, most of them residential buildings.
On Sunday, February 1, Russian forces carried out another drone strike on Zaporizhzhia.
The Russian authorities continue to rely on prisoners as an expendable resource in the war against Ukraine.
As many as 693 buildings in Kyiv remain without heating following an emergency in Ukraine's energy system on January 31.
Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia with a drone once more. Three people were injured, including a four-year-old child.
The Russian government has lifted restrictions on gasoline exports for oil product manufacturers.
The HUR special unit, the Freedom of Russia Legion, has disclosed details of an operation to destroy an ammunition depot belonging to Russian invaders in Kharkiv Region.
On the night of February 1, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck a number of enemy military targets in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The dates of the next trilateral meetings between Ukraine, the United States, and Russia in Abu Dhabi (UAE) have been set for February 4 and 5.
In Odesa Region, more than 33,000 households in 176 villages and towns remain without electricity as a result of adverse weather conditions.
An explosion was heard in Zaporizhzhia during an air raid alert. Enemy forces struck the city with a drone, hitting a maternity hospital.
Over the past day, Russian troops carried out nine shelling attacks in the Donetsk region, damaging residential buildings and a gas pipeline.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday that the measures taken by his company to stop Russia's unauthorized use of Starlink appear to have produced results.
On Saturday, January 31, Russian forces attacked Kherson and 14 other towns and villages in the Kherson region with drones, airstrikes, and artillery.
At the request of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, SpaceX has begun taking countermeasures against Shahed-type attack UAVs that are using Starlink technology.
In January 2026, the Russian Federation used more than 6,000 attack drones, about 5,500 guided aerial bombs, and 158 missiles of various types against Ukraine.
On January 31, Russian forces shelled the Kharkiv region using a guided aerial bomb and several types of drones. Civilian infrastructure was damaged, and two women were injured.
Russian forces have struck an enterprise on the outskirts of Chernihiv, causing damage.
Russian forces carried out 383 strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, January 31, damaging infrastructure and injuring civilians.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 76 UAVs used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of January 31.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces engaged in 338 combat clashes with Russian troops, including 80 in the Pokrovsk sector. The enemy was also highly active in the Lyman, Kostiantynivka, and Huliaipole sectors.
A private house was destroyed and two others were damaged in Dnipro after a Russian UAV struck the city at night. Residential buildings were destroyed in Nikopol and the Marhanets community, and a gas pipeline was hit.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in manpower from February 24, 2022, to February 1, 2026, reached about 1,240,680 people, including 1,090 in the last 24 hours.
The state of the Belarusian economy gives grounds to predict further stagnation, and in the event of a deterioration in external conditions, a rapid decline.
Drone operators from the Hart border brigade destroyed nine vehicles belonging to Russian invaders in the South Slobozhanskyi direction.
Soldiers from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used drones to destroy Russian soldiers who had been driven into a drainage pipe.