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23 February 2026
The villages of Nykyforivka, Lypivka, and Platonivka in the Donetsk region, as well as Pokrovka in the Sumy region, remain under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, despite reports claiming that the enemy has advanced near these settlements.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Shahed drone repeaters had appeared on the territory of Belarus, thanks to which attacks on Ukraine were being coordinated. At the same time, according to the president, everything has been done to ensure that three or four of the repeaters are no longer there.
In the Chasiv Yar area of the Donetsk region, the Russian army is deploying tanks and armored vehicles this week, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are detecting and eliminating the enemy as they approach.
Since the end of January this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have regained control of 400 km² of territory and eight settlements in the Oleksandrivka sector.
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck an area in temporarily occupied Crimea where the missile division of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's 15th Separate Coastal Missile Brigade, armed with K-300P Bastion-P coastal defence missile system, was concentrated.
On the night of February 23, Russians shelled port infrastructure in the Odesa region, leaving dead and wounded.
On the morning of February 23, the Russian army attacked the Kholodnohirskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv, with two casualties reported so far.
Russian troops wounded five residents of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has already started World War III, but the question is how to stop him.
Yesterday, Russian troops shelled the Sumy region over 70 times, leaving one person injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that stopping Russian aggression in Ukraine will be a victory for the whole world.
Over the previous day, February 22, 130 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded.
On the night of February 23, UAVs attacked an oil pumping station located near the Russian city of Almetyevsk in the Republic of Tatarstan.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 105 out of 126 drones launched by Russian troops in an overnight attack that began on Sunday evening.
Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a nighttime attack by Russian strike drones in the Odesa region.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to February 23, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to about 1,260,500 soldiers, of which 720 were killed in the past day.
Over the previous day, Russian invaders launched 754 attacks on 44 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of the enemy strikes, two people were killed and four others were injured.
As a result of a Russian drone attack in Zaporizhzhia, a man was killed and another was wounded.
In temporarily occupied Luhansk, Russian forces organized a drone racing championship aimed at preparing children and young people for war.
Ukraine is reaching increasingly distant Russian weapons manufacturing sites, and we should be grateful to everyone working toward this goal.
On the night of February 22, the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two Russian Tor surface-to-air missile systems in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region and an oil depot in temporarily occupied Luhansk.
In the Znob-Novhorodske community of the Shostka district, Sumy region, police community officer Serhii Slavskyi and his wife Khrystyna, an emergency paramedic, were killed on February 21 while performing their duties.
22 February 2026
On February 22, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 112 clashes with Russian forces, with the highest activity – 24 attacks – occurring in the Huliaipole sector.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed air defense forces, the Ministry of Defense, and government agencies to strengthen protection against Russian drones in response to changes in Russia’s strike tactics.
Drone operators of the 80th Separate Air Assault Galician Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed a Russian depot containing UAVs, related equipment, ammunition, and vehicles in Russia’s Kursk region.
Law enforcement officials have charged a 33-year-old resident of Kostopil, Rivne region, with committing a terrorist act in Lviv.
The Russian military struck a residential area in a community in the Sumy region with two guided aerial bombs, leaving several people wounded.
The town of Yampil in the Donetsk region is under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Almost all of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Lviv hospitals are emergency service workers who responded to the call, two of whom are in critical condition.
Four women were wounded today during Russian shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk region.