Russia-Ukraine war: Record of key events, day 1,459

Right here is the build things stand on Sunday, February 22:

Combating

• A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy predicament killed four of us, including a 17-year-oldschool boy, while one other attack on the southeastern Zaporizhia predicament killed a 77-year-oldschool man, primarily primarily based on Ukrainian authorities.
• Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Odesa predicament wounded two of us and ended in damage to homes, autos and an vitality facility, officials talked about. One more Russian attack on the Dnipropetrovsk predicament wounded a 77-year-oldschool man.
• Within the Donetsk predicament, Russian shelling wounded four of us in 18 attacks within the course of the day, Governor Vadym Filashkin wrote on Telegram. Authorities evacuated 562 of us, including 244 youth, from entrance-line settlements.
• Russian forces furthermore hit the skill of US snack meals firm Mondelez in Sumy, sparking a response from Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha, who wrote on X that Russia modified into “focused on American enterprise pursuits in Europe”.
• “Moscow can not communicate of financial dialogue with the US while attacking US-owned production facilities,” Sybiha added.
• Within the entrance-line Kherson predicament, Russian shelling wounded two police officers and one civilian, Ukraine’s National Police wrote on Telegram. Three rental constructions, 18 homes, a effectively being facility and a lot of public constructions sustained damage.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Ukrainian safety forces “neutralised Russian mercenaries making ready assassination attempts” in opposition to “high-profile” figures, including military personnel, intelligence officers and journalists.
• Moscow’s ⁠forces ⁠took retain watch over of the village of ⁠Karpivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk ⁠predicament, the Russian RIA yell news company reported on Saturday, citing ‌the Ministry of Defence.
• A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod predicament wounded a individual and a three-year-oldschool shrimp one, primarily primarily based on the Russian TASS news.
• The Ukrainian Authorized Workers talked about Ukraine’s home-produced “Flamingo” cruise missiles hit a Russian ballistic missile plant within the Udmurtia predicament, to boot to a gasoline plant within the Samara predicament.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy held discussions with NATO Secretary-Authorized Heed Rutte on the subsequent spherical of trilateral negotiations with the US and Russia, to boot to Ukraine’s vitality wretchedness. He talked about on X that “in many areas, our views align”.
• Zelenskyy talked about in his night take care of that “we continue working every day… so as that the subsequent spherical of negotiations can impart results for Ukraine, results for peace”.The Ukrainian chief talked about he modified into carefully coordinating with European companions so as that the European Union is “all for all processes and grows absolute most practical stronger”.
• Demonstrators in Washington, DC, Paris, and Prague rallied in toughen of Ukraine ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s beefy-scale invasion on February 24.
• Zelenskyy awarded Ukraine’s civilian award, the Bellow of Princess Olga, to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo within the Ukrainian capital. Hidalgo’s roam to marked her sixth outing to Kyiv for the reason that beginning of the war.
• Sybiha, the Ukrainian foreign places minister, condemned Russia’s alleged ongoing recruitment of Kenyans and diverse Africans into Moscow’s war, writing that it “conjures up the worst memories of colonial attitudes from the previous” and warning Africans in opposition to signing contracts with Russian recruiters.
• Ukraine enforced unique sanctions in opposition to the captains of vessels allegedly transporting Russian oil, a listing that Zelenskyy talked about totalled 225 of us.

Vitality

• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened to discontinuance offering emergency electricity provides to Ukraine except Kyiv resumed Russian oil transit to Slovakia over Ukrainian territory, by means of the Druzhba pipeline. Hungary talked about it would block a 90 billion euro ($106bn) EU mortgage for Ukraine for the identical motive.
• Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia like been slash back ⁠off since January 27, when Kyiv says a Russian drone strike hit pipeline tools in Western Ukraine. Slovakia and Hungary relate Ukraine is accountable for the prolonged outage.
• The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs talked about it “rejects and condemns” Hungary and Slovakia’s statements and that the “intriguing, irresponsible ultimatums threaten the vitality safety of your full predicament”.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticised Hungary’s scramble on X, writing, “Bet who’s cheerful”, in an apparent reference to Russia.

Military aid

• The Czech Republic transferred 200 reconnaissance drones to 5 Ukrainian brigades, tools worth about $800,000, Ukraine’s Interfax news company reported.
• Vulnerable UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked about in an interview with the BBC that the UK and the EU can like to send “indifferent ground forces” to “demonstrate our toughen for a free, self reliant Ukraine”.