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18 February 2026
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called on partners to follow Ukraine's example and impose sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko and his regime for crimes against the Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said following the talks in Geneva that progress had been made on military issues – specifically on monitoring a ceasefire – while positions remain divergent on political matters, including territories, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), and other sensitive issues.
A serviceman from an elite unit of Russia's Ministry of Defense voluntarily surrendered to Ukrainian forces and expressed his intention to fight on Ukraine's side.
Russian troops have stepped up efforts to encircle Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.
Talks between the delegations of Ukraine, the United States, and Russia have concluded in Geneva. The negotiations lasted approximately two hours.
A serviceman from an elite unit of Russia's Ministry of Defense voluntarily surrendered to Ukrainian forces and expressed his intention to fight on Ukraine's side.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, summarizing the first day of talks in Geneva, has stated that Russia is attempting to delay the negotiations. According to him, today's agenda includes issues related to the exchange of prisoners of war and the release of civilians.
Ukraine should impose sanctions against Russian athletes at the 2026 Paralympics in Italy, extend these sanctions to the international level, and thus prevent Russians from participating in these competitions.
Ukrainian Defense Forces liberated the eastern part of Hryshyne in the Donetsk region from Russian invaders.
Ukrainian Defense Forces liberated the eastern part of Hryshyne in the Donetsk region from Russian invaders.
The second day of trilateral talks involving representatives of Ukraine, the US, and Russia has begun in Geneva.
The Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia injury toll has increased to seven: A 6-year-old girl was hospitalized with a head trauma.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine is imposing sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko, who not only provided Belarusian territory for the deployment of the Oreshnik missiles but also allowed Russia to supply critical components for this weapon.
On the night of Wednesday, February 18, drones struck the VNIIR-Progress enterprise in Cheboksary, which works directly with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On the evening of February 17, Sloviansk was attacked by Russian drones, causing damage.
Russian troops carried out 38 strikes on 27 settlements in the Sumy region using various types of weapons in 24 hours, leaving one person dead and 19 wounded.
Russian invaders killed three residents of the Donetsk region yesterday, February 17, and wounded two more people.
The Ukrainian Air Defense Forces neutralized 100 of 126 drones with which Russia attacked Ukraine from the evening of February 17.
On the front line yesterday, February 17, 160 clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
Russian forces carried out nighttime strikes on two districts of Dnipropetrovsk region using drones, artillery, and Grad multiple rocket launchers.
Ukraine is serious about ending the war, while Russia carried out a massive attack even on the day talks were held in Geneva.
Pilots from the SIGNUM battalion disrupted a Russian military advance on the Lyman front using night-time FPV drones.
Fighters of the reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial systems unit Striks of the 4th Border Detachment eliminated a Russian occupiers' "Msta" self-propelled artillery system in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Russia suffered approximately 1,256,080 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and February 18, 2026, with 740 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov held a separate meeting in Geneva with representatives of the United States and European partners, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, following trilateral negotiations.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers carried out 638 strikes on 40 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. One person was killed and seven others were injured as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia region.
Fighters of the reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial systems unit Striks of the 4th Border Detachment eliminated a Russian occupiers' "Msta" self-propelled artillery system in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck more than 240 Russian targets in strategic depth and in temporarily occupied territories during the first 48 days of this year.
Due to an enemy drone attack on Mykolaiv, homes in the private residential sector were damaged.
An official representative of Poland may attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington only as an observer, and Warsaw does not currently intend to join the initiative.