Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,457 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the important thing developments from day 1,457 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.

Revealed On 20 Feb 2026

Right here is the place issues stand on Friday, February 20:

Russian forces launched 448 assaults on 34 settlements in Ukraine’s front-line Zaporizhia area in a single day, injuring a six-year-old youngster and damaging houses, vehicles and different infrastructure, regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on the Telegram app.
Russian drone, missile and artillery assaults on Ukraine’s Kherson area injured 5 folks and broken houses, together with seven high-rise buildings, the native navy administration mentioned on Telegram.
Russian assaults additionally continued in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy areas, however native officers there famous that “luckily, no folks had been injured”. Based on the Kyiv Unbiased information outlet, in a single day was “unusually quiet” following weeks of “heavy hearth” within the two areas.
A person was killed by shrapnel from a Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev mentioned on Telegram.
A Ukrainian drone assault triggered a fireplace at an oil depot in Velikiye Luki in Russia’s Pskov area, native official Mikhail Vedernikov mentioned, in line with Russia’s state TASS information company.
Russian forces shot down 301 Ukrainian drones, 10 missiles and two guided bombs in a 24-hour interval, Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned, in line with TASS.

United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace held its first assembly in Washington, DC, with out Belarus taking part, regardless of Trump extending an invite to the Russian ally.
Belarus’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs mentioned in an announcement that its delegation to the assembly didn’t obtain the mandatory visas to enter the US “regardless of finishing up all of the required procedures”.
The Overseas Ministry questioned, “What sort of peace and what sort of sequence of steps are we speaking about if the organisers can not even full fundamental formalities for us to participate?”

France’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokesperson Pascal Confavreux expressed shock to see the European Fee had despatched a commissioner to take part in Trump’s assembly, noting that it “doesn’t have a mandate from the [European] Council to go and take part”.
Confavreux additionally mentioned France wouldn’t participate in Trump’s initiative till the Board of Peace returned its focus to Gaza according to a United Nations Safety Council decision.
A number of European Union member states have mentioned they won’t take part within the peace board after Trump prolonged an invite to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and is topic to an arrest warrant by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom.

Dutch intelligence companies AIVD and MIVD mentioned on Thursday that European nations, together with the Netherlands, had been going through elevated hybrid threats from Russia, together with cyberattacks, sabotage, affect campaigns and disinformation.

Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant is working on its sole remaining primary energy line after shedding its solely backup energy line greater than every week in the past, head of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, Rafael Grossi, mentioned in an announcement.
Hungary is contemplating halting energy and gasoline exports to Ukraine and can take such steps until Ukraine resumes the stream of crude oil shipments through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of employees advised a briefing.
The Druzhba pipeline, elements of which run by Ukraine, is essential for the switch of Russian crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia. Oil flows have reportedly halted since an assault on the pipeline in January, which Kyiv has blamed on Russia.
France’s Minister of the Financial system, Finance and Trade Roland Lescure mentioned his nation would offer 71 million euros ($83.5m) in further funding for Ukraine for companies together with power, well being and clearing land mines.

The pinnacle of Russia’s FSB safety service accused Telegram messaging app founder Pavel Durov of condoning legal exercise on the platform, in an escalation of Moscow’s rhetoric because it moved to limit the service that’s utilized by many Russians and Ukrainians to speak in regards to the struggle.
Dismissing a Russian authorities allegation that international intelligence companies are in a position to see messages despatched by Russian troopers on Telegram, the favored platform mentioned it had not discovered any breaches of its encryption codes and referred to as Russia’s claims a “deliberate fabrication”, in line with the Reuters information company.

Sweden introduced a 12.9 billion crown ($1.42bn) navy support bundle for Ukraine that can embrace air defences, drones, long-range missiles and ammunition.