These are the important thing developments from day 1,449 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Printed On 12 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Thursday, February 12:
Combating
- Ukraine’s capital Kyiv got here underneath Russian missile assault early on Thursday morning, the nation’s army administration stated, with witnesses reporting the sound of explosions. There have been no preliminary studies of casualties and the extent of injury 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 stated 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, stated that Ukrainian forces shot down two Russian Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles that have been flying in direction of the western Ukrainian metropolis. Sadovyi stated that no data was initially accessible about whether or not any harm or accidents had been brought on.
- Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, on Wednesday evening, inflicting a fireplace to interrupt out, Ukraine’s army stated 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, advised the nation’s Ukrinform information company.
- Ukrainian assaults on Russia’s Belgorod area killed a civilian and injured a minimum of seven others, native officers stated, in line 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 situated close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, the area’s water utility stated 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 stated, in line 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, stated on Telegram.
Regional safety
- Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov advised Parliament that Russia will abide by limits on its nuclear weapons as set out within the lately lapsed New START arms management treaty with the US, 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 tools, the bloc’s government stated in a brand new motion plan.
- US defence provider Northrop Grumman and Polish arms group Niewiadow-PGM purpose to make greater than 180,000 artillery shells yearly in Poland, Northrop Grumman’s managing director for Poland, Quinn Canole, stated. The 155-mm shell is extensively utilized by Ukraine in its struggle with Russia, however has been briefly 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 legal harm, following allegations his vessel broken undersea cables within the Baltic Sea, an space that has come underneath heightened tensions throughout Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Army assist
- British Defence Minister John Healey stated on Wednesday that the UK had dedicated 150 million kilos ($205m) to the Prioritised Ukraine Necessities Checklist (PURL) initiative to provide Ukraine with US weapons.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he spoke to French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who briefed him a couple of latest 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 advised 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 a part of US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Warsaw and Rome stated, including to the record of Ukrainian allies which have turned down invites to hitch the physique, which has additionally prolonged invites to Russia and its ally Belarus.
- “Taking into consideration sure nationwide doubts relating to the form of the board, underneath these circumstances, Poland is not going to be a part of the work of the Board of Peace, however we’ll analyse it,” Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk advised a authorities assembly.
- Italian Overseas Minister Antonio Tajani stated that Italy “can not be a part of the Board of Peace as a result of there may be an insurmountable constitutional barrier on Italy’s facet”. Beneath Italy’s structure, the nation can solely be a part of worldwide organisations on equal phrases with different states – a situation that Rome says isn’t met by the board’s present statute, which supplies Trump intensive government powers.
Assist
- The Swiss authorities has permitted an assist bundle for Ukraine for the provision of urgently wanted vitality items of as much as 32 million Swiss francs ($41.8m), it stated in a press release.
- Zelenskyy welcomed information that the European Parliament would grant Ukraine a 90 billion Euro ($106bn) assist mortgage, saying it was “precisely the sign that ought to be despatched to [Russia as] the aggressor”.
