These are the important thing developments from day 1,449 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Revealed On 12 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Thursday, February 12:
Combating
- Ukraine’s capital Kyiv got here below Russian missile assault early on Thursday morning, the nation’s army administration mentioned, with witnesses reporting the sound of explosions. There have been no preliminary stories of casualties and the extent of harm from the assault was not identified.
- Russian assaults killed 4 individuals and injured three within the Synelnykove space of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, regional army administration chief Oleksandr Hanzha mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.
- These killed within the Synelnykove space included an older couple along with their 45-year-old son, Hanzha added.
- A girl was killed in a Russian drone assault on an ambulance that was carrying 5 individuals, together with medical employees and civilians, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, police within the area reported on Telegram.
- The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, mentioned that Ukrainian forces shot down two Russian Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles that had been flying in the direction of the western Ukrainian metropolis. Sadovyi mentioned that no info was initially out there about whether or not any injury or accidents had been triggered.
- Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, on Wednesday night time, inflicting a fireplace to interrupt out, Ukraine’s army mentioned in a publish on Fb.
- Ukrainian “troops are holding Zaliznychne” in Ukraine’s entrance line Zaporizhia area, regardless of Russian claims to have occupied the settlement, Ukraine’s army spokesperson in southern Ukraine, Vladyslav Voloshyn, informed the nation’s Ukrinform information company.
- Ukrainian assaults on Russia’s Belgorod area killed a civilian and injured no less than seven others, native officers mentioned, in keeping with Russia’s TASS state information company.
- Ukrainian assaults additionally broken water infrastructure, inflicting outages, in a number of villages within the Borisovsky and Rakityansky districts of Belgorod, which is positioned close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, the area’s water utility mentioned on Telegram.
- An worker from Russia’s Miratorg agricultural holding firm was killed in a Ukrainian drone assault within the Klimovsky district of Russia’s Bryansk, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz mentioned, in keeping with TASS.
- Ukrainian forces killed a girl and injured 5 individuals in assaults on Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine’s Kherson, a Russian-appointed official within the area, Volodymyr Saldo, mentioned on Telegram.
Regional safety
- Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov informed Parliament that Russia will abide by limits on its nuclear weapons as set out within the lately lapsed New START arms management treaty with america, so long as Washington continues to do the identical.
- The European Fee will work to enhance Europe’s drone detection capabilities and suggest increasing registration necessities for such gear, the bloc’s government mentioned in a brand new motion plan.
- US defence provider Northrop Grumman and Polish arms group Niewiadow-PGM goal to make greater than 180,000 artillery shells yearly in Poland, Northrop Grumman’s managing director for Poland, Quinn Canole, mentioned. The 155-mm shell is extensively utilized by Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, however has been in brief provide, and Canole didn’t rule out gross sales to Ukraine.
- The Chinese language captain of a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship pleaded not responsible in a Hong Kong courtroom to a cost of felony injury, following allegations his vessel broken undersea cables within the Baltic Sea, an space that has come below heightened tensions throughout Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Navy help
- British Defence Minister John Healey mentioned on Wednesday that the UK had dedicated 150 million kilos ($205m) to the Prioritised Ukraine Necessities Record (PURL) initiative to provide Ukraine with US weapons.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he spoke to French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who briefed him a couple of current go to by a French presidential aide to Moscow.
- President Zelenskyy denied a report by the Monetary Instances that he deliberate to announce a February 24 presidential election and referendum on a proposed peace take care of Russia.
- Zelenskyy informed Bloomberg Information that he had accepted a proposal from Washington to host the following spherical of peace talks within the US.
- Poland and Italy is not going to be part of US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Warsaw and Rome mentioned, including to the record of Ukrainian allies which have turned down invites to affix the physique, which has additionally prolonged invites to Russia and its ally Belarus.
- “Bearing in mind sure nationwide doubts concerning the form of the board, below these circumstances, Poland is not going to be part of the work of the Board of Peace, however we are going to analyse it,” Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk informed a authorities assembly.
- Italian Overseas Minister Antonio Tajani mentioned that Italy “can not be part of the Board of Peace as a result of there may be an insurmountable constitutional barrier on Italy’s aspect”. Below Italy’s structure, the nation can solely be part of worldwide organisations on equal phrases with different states – a situation that Rome says shouldn’t be met by the board’s present statute, which provides Trump in depth government powers.
Assist
- The Swiss authorities has permitted an help bundle for Ukraine for the availability of urgently wanted power items of as much as 32 million Swiss francs ($41.8m), it mentioned in an announcement.
- Zelenskyy welcomed information that the European Parliament would grant Ukraine a 90 billion Euro ($106bn) assist mortgage, saying it was “precisely the sign that needs to be despatched to [Russia as] the aggressor”.
