21 February 2022
The Russian Federation is making every effort to create a casus belli to launch a full-scale offensive, but it won’t be able to provoke Ukraine into active hostilities.
The operation of the Luhansk thermal power plant stopped due to shelling. The power and water supplies to the town of Shchastia, Luhansk region, were cut off.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has requested a phone call with Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin in connection with the decision to extend Russian-Belarusian military drills "Allied Resolve 2022."
The Ukrainian Army is not planning any offensive operations anywhere as the country stands for regaining its territories and people through political and diplomatic means.
The operational press center of the #UATogether project has set up a video conference with the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation in Kramatorsk.
Ukraine is closely following the deployment of Russian units, which currently number 127,000 people of the ground component, reaching 147,000 people with the naval and aviation component.
Over the past day, February 21, the Russian-occupation forces launched 80 attacks on the positions of Ukraine’s Joint Forces, wounding one serviceman.
Throughout the past four days, the Russian occupation forces shelled 104 civilian homes along the line of contact in Donbas.
20 February 2022
Russian occupation forces have committed another provocation by opening fire on Luhansk with heavy weapons.
A vehicle of the Proliska humanitarian aid mission has come under artillery fire from Russian-backed forces near the village of Novoivanivka in Ukraine's Donbas region.
Russian-backed forces violated the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine 53 times as of 17:00 on Sunday, February 20, involving weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements 50 times, the press service of the Joint Forces Operation has said on Facebook.
19 February 2022
Members of the Parliament of Ukraine from the Servant of the People faction and foreign journalists, who arrived in the Joint Forces Operation area in eastern Ukraine earlier today, came under fire near Svitlodarsk (57km north-east of Donetsk).
The Russian occupation forces employed heavy weapons to strike own positions near the village of Pikuzy outside Mariupol, now trying to put the blame for the attack on the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the past day, February 18, the Russian occupation forces 66 times opened fire on the positions of the Ukrainian Army.
18 February 2022
No order has been issued to liberate the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by force, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov has said.
The leaders of the criminal organizations "DPR" and "LPR" are deliberately misleading the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions about the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly planning an attack, but Ukraine will never launch an offensive in the east.
Estonia on February 18 delivered military aid to Ukraine in the form of missiles for American Javelin anti-tank missile systems.
The statements made by the occupiers on the alleged shelling of populated localities by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are outright lies and provocations, the command of the Joint Forces Operation underscores.
In Shchastia, Luhansk region, the administrative building of a fire department was damaged as a result of the enemy shelling.
A humanitarian convoy of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) came under fire opened by the Russian-occupation forces at the entry-exit checkpoint “Shchastia”, Luhansk region.
The Netherlands will supply military goods to Ukraine.
Ukraine has scrutinized all possible scenarios and currently estimates the probability of a large-scale escalation of the security situation as low.
The Ukrainian Finance Ministry will allocate about UAH 22 billion from the budget for the country's defense needs, Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko has said.
Ukraine does not confirm the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border, their total number is 149,000 and may increase in the near future, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said.
Russia has not yet implemented any of its commitments under the Minsk agreements, according to Ambassador Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OSCE.
Over the past day, February 17, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated the ceasefire in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine 60 times, including 43 attacks with the use of weapons banned under the Minsk agreements.
17 February 2022
Russia is trying to stage a pretext for aggression against Ukraine, making disinformation efforts, and NATO tries to prevent such actions by revealing data about the actions and plans of Russian forces.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky informed President of the European Council Charles Michel about today's provocative shelling by the Russian occupation forces in the Joint Forces Operation area.
The occupiers fired on Vrubivka urban-type settlement, Luhansk region, hitting a local school, damaging residential buildings and a high-pressure gas pipeline.
At about 9:00 on February 17, Russian occupation troops fired on Stanytsia Luhanska, damaging a local kindergarten.