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06 February 2026
Ukraine’s air defense systems destroyed 297 drones used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine overnight on February 6 and during the morning. A group of enemy missiles, preliminarily, also failed to reach their targets.
Over the past six months, the size of the enemy grouping has remained at approximately the same level – about 711,000–712,000 troops – while the enemy’s daily losses average 1,000–1,100 personnel.
Russian forces use between 100 and 200 Shahed-type attack UAVs every day to strike Ukrainian territory. Aviation, helicopters, and interceptor drones are deployed to counter them, making it possible to destroy about 70% of airborne attack assets.
Russian forces are building up manpower and heavy equipment for a further assault on the town of Myrnohrad in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 1,285 strikes on the Donetsk region, destroying 56 civilian objects.
A series of explosions was heard in Kropyvnytskyi during an air raid alert.
Over the past day, the Russian army struck Kharkiv and ten settlements in the region, injuring six people.
On the morning of February 6, Russian troops struck an apartment building in Sumy with a drone.
In the Shevchenkivskyi and Zavodskyi districts of Zaporizhzhia, 18 buildings were damaged as a result of Russian strikes on February 5 and 6, four of which were multistory apartment buildings.
Russian troops struck civilian infrastructure in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, at night, damaging administrative and storage facilities of an enterprise, as well as about 15 households.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 152 combat clashes with Russian invaders on February 5, with the fiercest fighting on the Pokrovsk axis.
On February 5, Russian forces used drones, artillery, and aircraft to strike 19 settlements in the Kherson region, leaving one person wounded.
Russia suffered approximately 1,244,560 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and February 6, 2026, with 720 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
On February 5, Russian forces carried out 517 strikes on 32 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. Two people were killed and five wounded as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia city and Zaporizhzhia district.
Two people were killed in a Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia district, with a private house destroyed.
Following meetings in Abu Dhabi, the United States and Russia agreed to resume high-level military dialogue.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement carried out a sabotage operation in one of the districts near St. Petersburg, where several key military-industrial facilities are concentrated, destroying a technical module of a telecommunications tower.
05 February 2026
The Russians continue to attack the Zaporizhzhia region, leaving 12,000 households without power and causing damage to residential buildings.
The Ukrainian side is doing everything possible to ensure prisoner exchanges. The state’s goal is to return everyone who is in enemy captivity.
A total of 140 combat clashes were recorded along the frontline, with nearly 50 of them occurring in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Stronger oversight of the condition of training centers and the quality of military training conducted there and within brigades is required.
In the first month of 2026, Ukrainian troops neutralized 30,000 Russian invaders. This figure includes those killed and seriously wounded.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has approved new operations by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) against the aggressor state.
The Darnytsia Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant sustained critical damage during Russia's attack on Kyiv on February 3, and restoring its systems and equipment will take at least two months.
Finland will provide Ukraine with its 32nd military aid package, valued at approximately EUR 43 million.
Since the beginning of the day, 56 combat engagements have taken place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops. Fighting is currently ongoing on six sectors of the front. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk sector, with increased activity on the Kostiantynivka and Huliaipole sectors.
The Russian army carried out a drone strike on the village of Bakhtyn in the Borova community in Kharkiv region, injuring two women.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine is ready to supply drones to Poland in exchange for missiles for air defense systems.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that another prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place today. As a result, 157 Ukrainian servicemen have returned home.
The situation in the Huliaipole and Oleksandrivka sectors of the font remains difficult. Russian forces have increased the number of airstrikes, but Ukraine’s Defense Forces are holding their positions.