Russia-Ukraine warfare: Checklist of key occasions, day 1,453

Here is where things stand on Monday, February 16:

Combating

• Russian forces launched assaults across Ukraine on Sunday, wounding six americans within the central-jap Dnipropetrovsk role, three within the northeastern Sumy role, and two within the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, the Ukrinform files outlet reported, citing local officials.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has launched about 1,300 drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs and dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine over the final week alone.
• About 1,600 constructions within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, remained with out heat on Sunday following present Russian assaults on Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure, officials said.
• Deputy Top Minister Oleksii Kuleba said Russian strikes in a single day on Sunday had damaged railroad infrastructure within the southern role of Odesa and the Dnipropetrovsk role.
• The Ukrainian navy said in a statement that it hit a key oil terminal in southern Russia, advance the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula, on Sunday. The attack changed into once on the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal advance the village of Volna within the Krasnodar role.
• Ukrainian forces also launched a drone attack on the Russian Sunless Sea port of Taman, which handles oil products, grain, coal and commodities, inflicting wound and triggering a number of fires, in conserving with Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar role. He said better than 100 americans had been working to do aside out the fires.
• Kondratyev said there were extra Ukrainian assaults on the Russian resort metropolis of Sochi and the village of Yurovka, stop to the seaside town of Anapa. They precipitated much less important wound, he added.

• Russian air defences downed 5 drones drawing stop the Russian capital, Moscow, in conserving with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
• A Ukrainian attack also left 5 municipalities within the Russian border role of Bryansk and parts of its capital with out heat and electrical energy, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that its troops had taken the village of Tsvitkove within the southeastern Zaporizhia role, in conserving with the TASS files company. Russia controls about 75 percent of the Zaporizhia role, nonetheless warfare traces had been largely static since 2022 till present Russian advances.
• Russia’s navy chief, Valery Gerasimov, said on Sunday that Russian troops had seized a dozen villages in jap Ukraine in February. He made the announcement whereas visiting Russian troops in Ukraine, the AFP files company reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested the nation’s weak vitality minister, German Galushchenko, who resigned in November amid a substantial corruption scandal, as he tried to defective Ukraine’s border.
• Zelenskyy said in a statement that Ukraine has agreed to unique vitality and armed forces enhance packages with European allies.
• The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said she felt that the bloc’s governments weren’t able to present Ukraine a date for membership into the EU, regardless of demands from Zelenskyy.
• Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics echoed Kallas’s comments, announcing that “there’s no longer any readiness to impartial earn a date” for Ukrainian membership. He added that he has little hope of an forthcoming peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
• Slovak Top Minister Robert Fico has accused Ukraine of delaying the restart of a pipeline carrying Russian oil to Jap Europe by the spend of Ukraine to “blackmail” Hungary to fall its opposition to Ukraine’s future EU membership.
• North Korean chief Kim Jong Un presided over the completion ceremony of a unique housing district in Pyongyang for families of troops who died in in a foreign nation navy operations, insist media KCNA reported. It is far believed that better than 6,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed whereas combating alongside Russian troops in Ukraine.
• Russia is no longer going to forestall the militarisation of its economy after combating in Ukraine ends, the head of Latvia’s intelligence company, Egils Zviedris, told the AFP files company on the sidelines of the Munich Security Convention, which ended on Sunday.