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Friday, 13 February 2026, 11:13
Due to a significant deterioration in weather conditions and a drop in temperatures, the Cabinet of Ministers has instructed officials to urgently consider temporarily suspending in-person education and transitioning to remote learning and work.
Ukrainian Defense Forces hit moving stock of fuel and lubricants at the Hvardiyske oil depot in occupied Crimea, as well as a Russian military repair unit in Hirne in temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to halt enemy advances and currently control the northern part of Pokrovsk, while in Myrnohrad Ukrainian troops are conducting active defense operations.
Russian forces attacked a port in the Odesa region with drones, damaging an empty oil storage tank.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that another massive Russian strike could occur overnight and urged citizens to stay alert to air raid warnings.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nearly 250,000 residents remain without heating and around 20,000 without water following a Russian attack on the region’s energy infrastructure in the evening of January 7.
Ten people have been reported wounded as a result of a Russian Iskander missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
Only sustained political and economic pressure by the United States on Russia can help establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
The transfer of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Kyiv to the Roman Catholic community is “good news” for Ukrainian-Polish relations and “a step in the right direction.”
The State Service for Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQU) has begun inspections of two schools – a private lyceum in the Kyiv region and a school run by the Kostiantynivka Town Council in the Donetsk region – over the formal enrollment of children who were in fact studying at a school operating at a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP) monastery.
The upper chamber of the Czech Parliament does not currently plan to remove the Ukrainian flag from its building.
Russian forces are attacking Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles.
Since the beginning of the day, 54 combat engagements have taken place between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is currently ongoing on five axes of the front, with the occupiers concentrating the greatest efforts on the Pokrovsk direction.
Proposals by France and the United Kingdom on structuring measures to deter future Russian aggression against Ukraine across land, air, and maritime domains are encouraging.
Following a massive drone attack, the Zaporizhstal steel plant lost external power supply and suspended production processes.
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has changed the preventive measure for MP Nestor Shufrych of the OPZZh party, who is charged with high treason, from detention without the option of bail to detention with the possibility of release on bail in the amount of UAH 33.28 million.
Three civilians were killed and two others injured in the downtown area of Kherson as a result of Russian shelling.
Intelligence officers intercepted a conversation in which a Russian commander threatens a subordinate soldier with reprisals after the latter asks to postpone the time of moving to a position due to the risk to his life.
After Operation Spiderweb, carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) under the leadership of General Vasyl Maliuk, Russia has still been unable to repair the damage inflicted on its strategic aviation.
Russian forces shelled the central part of Kherson, injuring three people.
The bilateral document on security guarantees for Ukraine is essentially ready for finalization at the highest level with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The United Kingdom has delivered 13 Raven air defense systems and two prototypes of the new Gravehawk system to Ukraine.
Russian attacks have left the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions almost completely without power. The situation in Dnipro is one of the most difficult. According to Mayor Borys Filatov, this is a national-level emergency.
An oil tanker heading to the Russian port of Novorossiysk came under drone attack in the Black Sea.
The situation with restoring power supply in Kryvyi Rih remains difficult, with nearly 39,000 customers in the city still without electricity.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following Russia's January 7 attack on energy infrastructure, stressed that diplomatic discussions must not become a reason to delay the supply of air defense systems and equipment needed to protect Ukrainian lives.
Four people were injured in Russia's shelling of the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson and were hospitalized in moderate condition.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed recent developments regarding Ukraine, Greenland, and the operation in Venezuela during a phone call.
The Russian Navy is minimizing the deployment of its vessels in the Sea of Azov due to limited navigation routes and the risk of being struck.