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Thursday, 12 February 2026, 04:08
A total of 157 combat engagements were recorded along the front line as of 22:00 on January 31, with Russian forces launching 38 attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Pokrovsk sector and losing about 80 personnel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded state honors to 253 defenders of Ukraine, including 131 posthumously.
The preparatory team for the future Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine will operate in Strasbourg and the Netherlands.
Head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate Oleh Ivashchenko briefed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Russia's current military plans and preparations, with Russia preparing to continue assaults at the current level.
As many as 253 apartment buildings remain without heat supply in Kyiv.
Poland has significant experience and capabilities to keep Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets at a high level of combat readiness, including aircraft transferred by Warsaw to Kyiv.
The incoming Dutch government, formed by a coalition led by the liberal D66 party, intends to allocate more than EUR 3 billion in military assistance to Ukraine in 2027-2029.
During the night on Friday, there were almost no enemy strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, except in the Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces have carried out seven drone strikes on Ukraine’s railway facilities.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Romania Nicușor Dan discussed joint energy projects aimed at strengthening energy security.
Russian forces attacked the Synelnykove and Nikopol districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with FPV drones and artillery, leaving two people wounded.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting on strengthening small-scale counter-drone air defense within the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health says that due to low air temperatures, there are currently no risks of the spread of intestinal infections as a result of damage to sewer networks.
Estonia will allocate €400,000 in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine as Russia continues to strike the country’s energy infrastructure amid severe cold weather.
Russian claims of the alleged capture of the settlement of Ternuvate and the village of Richne are not true, as both localities remain under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
Reports claiming that the settlement of Zlahoda on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions has allegedly come under Russian control are not true.
Fighters of the 151st Reconnaissance Battalion have thwarted an attempt by Russian forces to break through toward Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in the Kharkiv region.
Russian troops plan to recruit more than 1,300 people from special contingents, including former prisoners and people with hepatitis C, to staff assault units in the southern direction.
Seven villages in the Starosaltivska community in the Kharkiv region have announced the forced evacuation of families with children.
Russian forces have attacked the Zaporizhzhia district, injuring three people.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi confirmed at an extraordinary meeting of the organization that Russia's systematic attacks on Ukraine's energy sector pose a direct nuclear threat.
Ukraine has called for the suspension of Russia's membership on the IAEA Board of Governors and proposed amendments to the IAEA Statute to limit the rights of the aggressor state.
Russia has intensified its information manipulation around the topic of Ukraine's losses, using the exchange of bodies of the dead as a tool to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine and exaggerate Ukrainian losses. In total, more than 350 manipulative publications were recorded in foreign media.
Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to set up a bilateral investment working group to attract Emirati capital to infrastructure, energy, and technology projects in Ukraine.
The Cabinet of Ministers has excluded lithium-ion batteries from the list of goods requiring an import and export license: these are batteries used in electricity storage systems.
Germany's Federal Council (Bundesrat), which represents the federal states, condemned Russia's war against Ukraine and called on Moscow to immediately cease all attacks and fully withdraw its troops from all parts of Ukraine.
The next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format will take place on February 12 at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal, during his visit to an energy facility in Kyiv damaged by Russian attacks, discussed with energy workers their urgent needs for carrying out repair works.
As a result of the Russian attack last night, part of the Philip Morris tobacco company's factory in Kharkiv was damaged.