These are the important thing developments from day 1,443 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Printed On 6 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Friday, February 6:
Preventing
- Nighttime shelling by Ukrainian forces inflicted “severe injury” on the Russian metropolis of Belgorod, the area’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated.
- “The enemy has shelled the civilian metropolis of Belgorod. Everybody is aware of now we have no navy targets. There was severe injury. I have been out to go searching,” Gladkov stated on the Telegram messaging app.
- Two individuals have been damage in a Russian in a single day drone assault in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, town’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated.
- Klitschko stated the assault brought about injury in residential buildings in a single district, and in one other, particles from a destroyed drone fell on the roof of an workplace constructing, inflicting a hearth. Particles additionally fell near a purchasing centre and brought about injury to a kindergarten.
- Ukraine’s air drive stated Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 183 drones at Ukraine in a single day on Thursday, with air defence models taking pictures down 156 of the unmanned aerial autos.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence stated its air defences downed 95 Ukrainian drones in a single day throughout a number of areas inside Russia in addition to over the Azov Sea and the Russian-annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
- Russia carried out a “huge” drone assault on railway infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern Sumy area, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba stated. Railway power infrastructure was additionally focused within the assault, Kuleba stated.
- “The enemy is attempting to cease prepare visitors,” Kuleba stated, describing the assault as “one other act of terrorism” in opposition to Ukrainian logistics.
- Ukraine’s navy stated it carried out a sequence of “profitable” strikes in January on a launch web site for Russian intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The strikes hit a posh of hangar-type buildings used for the prelaunch preparation of intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s Basic Workers stated on Telegram with out specifying the date of the assault.
- In his nightly deal with on Thursday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to the “good outcomes” from the Safety Service of Ukraine, singling out an assault by Ukrainian-made long-range Flamingo missiles on the testing floor for Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missiles close to the Caspian Sea.
- Starlink web terminals utilized by Russian forces in Ukraine have been deactivated, Kyiv’s defence minister stated.
- Russian navy bloggers on Thursday reported sweeping outages of Starlink web terminals throughout the Ukraine entrance, after community proprietor Elon Musk shut them down following a plea from Kyiv.
- Not less than 9 bloggers near the Russian military stated connections had been misplaced, including that this might weaken Moscow’s means to wage drone warfare and hinder coordination between models. Moscow doesn’t have a home-produced various to the satellite tv for pc web terminals.
- Ukraine is now registering its civilian and navy Starlink customers on a database, permitting accepted gadgets to perform whereas unregistered terminals are disabled inside Ukraine.
Peace talks
- Ukraine and Russia agreed on Thursday, after two days of trilateral talks with the USA in Abu Dhabi, to carry additional discussions within the coming weeks, in accordance with a communique issued by Ukraine’s high negotiator. The communique expressed because of the United Arab Emirates for organising the assembly and to US President Donald Trump for “his management in advancing efforts to finish the battle”.
- Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff stated the delegations from the US, Ukraine and Russia had agreed to an exchange of 314 prisoners of war, which occurred on Thursday. It was the primary such swap in 5 months.
- Russia and Ukraine exchanged 157 prisoners of battle every, the Russian Defence Ministry stated. Three civilians from the Kursk area have been additionally returned to Russia.
- President Zelenskyy stated a number of the launched POWs had been held for practically 4 years. He stated the subsequent spherical of talks can be held quickly, doubtless within the US.
- Witkoff, writing on the X social media platform, stated: “The discussions have been constructive and targeted on the best way to create the situations for a sturdy peace.”
Army assist
- Poland is making ready a brand new 200 million zloty ($55.9m) assist package deal for Ukraine, primarily made up of armoured gear, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Thursday throughout a go to to Kyiv.
- Tusk additionally stated that Poland may give Ukraine MiG-29 fighter jets at any time, however that Zelenskyy had advised him Kyiv might have different air-defence gear as a better precedence, and that he would talk about this with Polish officers and get again to the Ukrainian president.
- After his talks with Tusk, Zelenskyy repeated his pleas for air-defence missiles and stated Kyiv was able to swap its drones, during which it has turn into a worldwide chief, for missiles from allies or for Poland’s Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets.
- Slovak prosecutors on Thursday shut down investigations initiated by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s authorities that claimed donations of fighter jets and air defence methods by the earlier Slovak administration to Ukraine have been a criminal offense.
- Bratislava regional prosecutor Rastislav Remeta stated that the dozen Soviet-era MiG-29 jets and the S-300 and KUB air defence methods donated to Ukraine have been outdated, not totally operational and lacked missiles in addition to pilots. He stated their donation was not a criminal offense, as alleged by Fico and his aides.
Sanctions
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated additional US sanctions in opposition to Russia depend upon talks aimed toward ending the practically four-year-old Ukraine battle.
- Bessent stated he would think about new sanctions in opposition to Russia’s shadow fleet – a step Trump has not taken since returning to workplace in January 2025. “I’ll take it into consideration. We are going to see the place the peace talks go,” Bessent stated.
Power
- Ukraine’s Power Minister Denys Shmyhal warned households that deliberate blackouts may worsen within the coming days and Russian forces may launch a brand new air assault to additional disable energy and heating networks.
- Greater than 200 emergency crews are at work within the Ukrainian capital Kyiv restoring heating to house buildings after a sequence of mass Russian assaults in January, the minister stated.
- A Ukrainian energy plant that was broken in Russian strikes and that provided heating to greater than 1,100 house buildings in Kyiv might have two months to restore, Mayor Klitschko stated. The Darnytsia thermal energy plant, the capital’s most vital, was battered in Russia’s huge barrage on Tuesday.
- Sweden’s authorities stated it’ll present assist to Ukraine’s power system price one billion Swedish crowns ($111.1m).
Politics and diplomacy
- Russia is prepared for worldwide cooperation over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, together with with the US, a senior Russian nuclear official was quoted as saying. However the facility should be Russian, stated Alexei Likhachev, head of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom. Russian forces have managed the plant in southern Ukraine since shortly after the beginning of the battle in 2022.
- Russia has expelled a German diplomat in response to what it stated was Berlin’s groundless expulsion of a Russian diplomat final month and accused Germany of being within the grip of “spy mania”.
- Trump stated Thursday he was giving right-wing ally Prime Minister Viktor Orban his full-throated endorsement in Hungary’s upcoming normal election.
- “Victor Orban is a real pal, fighter, and WINNER,” Trump stated in a submit on his Fact Social platform, including he “has my Full and Whole Endorsement for Re-Election” as premier. Orban responded swiftly to Trump, posting on Fb: “Thanks Mr President!”
Regional safety
- Trump has rejected a suggestion from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to voluntarily lengthen the caps on strategic nuclear weapons deployments after the New START treaty that held them in examine for 15 years expired on Thursday.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Russia was nonetheless prepared to interact in dialogue with the US if Washington responded constructively to proposals from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Solely a couple of third of nations attending a summit on the navy use of synthetic intelligence agreed on Thursday to a declaration on the best way to govern the deployment of AI know-how in warfare, with China and the US opting out. Simply 35 out of 85 international locations attending the Accountable AI within the Army Area (REAIM) summit in A Coruna, Spain, signed a dedication to twenty ideas on AI, in accordance with stories.
