This is a major development in day 1,453 of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Published: February 16, 2026
The situation for Monday, February 16th is as follows.
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- Russian forces carried out attacks across Ukraine on Sunday, wounding six people in the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, three in the northeastern Sumy region and two in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia, Ukraineform news agency reported, citing local officials.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched about 1,300 drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs and dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine last week alone.
- About 1,600 buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kiev are without heat after the latest Russian attack on the country’s energy infrastructure, officials said.
- Russian airstrikes damaged railway infrastructure in the southern Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions on Sunday night, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksy Kuleva said.
- Ukrainian forces said in a statement that they attacked a major oil terminal in southern Russia near Moscow-annexed Crimea on Sunday. The attack took place at the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal near the village of Volna, Krasnodar Region.
- Ukrainian forces also launched a drone strike on Taman, a Russian Black Sea port that handles oil products, grain, coal and raw materials, causing damage and sparking several fires, according to Veniamin Kondratiev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region. He said more than 100 people were working to put out the fire.
- Kondratiev said there were further Ukrainian attacks on the village of Yurovka, close to the Russian resort city of Sochi and the seaside town of Anapa. They added that it caused less serious damage.
- Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that five drones approaching the Russian capital Moscow were shot down by Russian air defense forces.
- Governor Alexander Bogomaz said the Ukrainian attack had left the Russian border region of Bryansk and parts of the capital without heat and electricity.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that its forces had captured the village of Tsvitkove in the southeastern Zaporizhia region, according to TASS news agency. Russia controls about 75% of the Zaporizhia region, but the fighting front was largely stagnant from 2022 until the recent Russian advance.
- Russian military chief of staff Valery Gerasimov said Sunday that Russian forces had captured 12 villages in eastern Ukraine in February. AFP reported that he revealed this while visiting Russian troops stationed in Ukraine.
politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Agency arrested Germany’s former Energy Minister Galushenko, who resigned in November amid a massive corruption scandal, as he attempted to cross the Ukrainian border.
- Zelenskyy said in a statement that Ukraine had agreed to a new energy and military aid package with its European allies.
- The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaza Kalas, said he felt EU governments were not ready to set a date for Ukraine’s accession to the EU, despite Zelenskyy’s demands.
- Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics also agreed with Kalas’ comments and said he was “not ready to accept any date” for Ukraine’s membership. He added that there was little hope that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine was imminent.
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused Ukraine of delaying the reopening of a pipeline carrying Russian oil through Ukraine to Eastern Europe in an attempt to “blackmail” Hungary into dropping its opposition to Ukraine’s future EU membership.
- Korean Central News Agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over the completion ceremony of a new housing district in Pyongyang for the families of soldiers who died in overseas military operations. More than 6,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have died fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.
- Russia will not end the militarization of its economy even after the fighting in Ukraine ends, Egils Zviedris, the head of Latvia’s intelligence agency, told AFP on the sidelines of the Munich security conference that ended on Sunday.
