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26 February 2026
On February 26, Ukraine commemorates the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, a memorial date established to honor the large pro-Ukrainian rally held in 2014 in Simferopol.
The total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to February 26, 2026, in the war against Ukraine are estimated at around 1,263,850 personnel, including 1,360 in the past 24 hours.
A five-storey residential building in Kryvyi Rih was damaged during a Russian drone attack; there are casualties.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a meeting in Beijing with German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said that peace negotiations on Ukraine should ensure equal participation of all parties – apparently referring to the need for the European Union to be involved in the peace process.
Fires have broken out in two districts of the capital as a result of a combined missile-and-drone attack by Russian forces.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call on Wednesday that he wants to end the war as quickly as possible.
The enemy carried out at least 12 strikes on Zaporizhzhia, setting a high-rise residential building on fire, damaging shopping centers, and injuring at least seven people.
Russian forces have attacked Kharkiv with missiles and drones, impacts have been recorded in the Slobidskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Saltivskyi districts. There are casualties, fires have broken out across the city.
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine continues to create systemic challenges for the agricultural sector, particularly due to the energy crisis, complex logistics, labor shortages, and infrastructure damage.
On the southeastern coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea, local residents are reporting oil spills on beaches and dead wild waterfowl, while the Russian “authorities” are keeping quiet about the problem.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a Russian agent who, under the guise of fulfilling defense contracts, was directing strikes on Kyiv.
25 February 2026
The enemy attacked one of the districts of Zaporizhzhia.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Mariana Betsa, who represented Ukraine at the UN General Assembly and Security Council on February 24, emphasized the priority of a ceasefire in the war with Russia and the importance of preserving the provisions in international documents on the territorial integrity of the country.
In Russia's protracted war against Ukraine, a ceasefire and comprehensive peace agreement will require a long and complex negotiation process.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he had instructed acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Yevhen Khmara and SSU deputy head Oleksandr Poklad to work on cleansing the Security Service of Ukraine of individuals who do not defend Ukraine’s interests. Relevant arrests were made today.
On Wednesday, in the square in front of the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg, Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset, Moldova’s Permanent Representative Daniela Cujbă, whose country currently chairs the Committee of Ministers, and Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe Mykola Tochytskyi held a commemorative ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Ukraine can gain the upper hand in the electronic warfare (EW) confrontation with Russian forces through the development of medium-range systems and better coordination between units.
Since mid-January, food has been successfully delivered to occupied Oleshky in Kherson’s left-bank region only once, while other attempts ended in the deaths of those trying to bring civilians even just bread.
President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed areas of economic and educational cooperation, as well as ways to counter Russia’s recruitment of citizens of Ghana and other African countries to fight in the war against Ukraine, with Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of enemy targets on the night of February 25 in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Under the Nansen Program, Norway will provide Ukraine with $9 billion in assistance this year for military and civilian needs.
Many Czechs support Ukraine in various ways, and a small number have joined the armed struggle against the aggressor. One of them is Karolina.
Olena Kurylo, a resident of the town of Chuhuiv in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, whose photograph published on February 24, 2022 appeared on the front pages of dozens of international media outlets, returned to Ukraine in June 2023 and has recently started working for a civic organization that provides free legal assistance.
Europe is becoming increasingly aware of the threat posed by Russia, especially against the backdrop of cyberattacks and acts of sabotage, which may indicate that the Kremlin is preparing for war.
Insufficiently prepared transport infrastructure for military transport and administrative barriers at the level of EU member states jeopardize the speed of defense response to external aggression.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 115 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian army. The enemy is exerting the most pressure in the Pokrovsk sector and is highly active in the Huliaipole sector.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated that there is an alleged "Ukrainian threat" to the country's energy system and announced the deployment of troops to protect Hungary's energy infrastructure.
In occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region, there is no one to bury people who are blown up or killed in shelling, or those who have died.
Photos of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's medium reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs, which was attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2024, have appeared online.
Without Ukraine, we currently cannot defend ourselves