These are important developments since day 1,447 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Published February 10, 2026
Here’s what happened on Tuesday, February 10th.
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At least four people were killed in a nighttime Russian drone attack on Ukraine, including eastern Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions. Ukrainian officials said the attack killed a mother and her 10-year-old son and left tens of thousands without power.
The Ukrainian Air Force announced that Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones toward Ukraine overnight. The Air Force said 116 of the launched drones were shot down or disabled, and some missiles were intercepted and did not reach their targets.
The Russian attack damaged production sites in the Poltava and Sumy regions of Ukraine’s state oil and gas company Naftogaz, the company’s CEO Sergiy Koretskyy said in a Facebook post. Koretsky said this is the 20th attack on the company’s infrastructure since the beginning of this year.
Kiev’s military says Russian troops are moving around the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, hoping to end a months-long operation to seize strategic locations, as Russian forces aim to capture the entire Donetsk region. The fall of Pokrovsk is Russia’s biggest battlefield victory since it captured the eastern city of Avdiivka in early 2024.
Kiev’s General Staff said Kiev forces still held northern Pokrovsk, a pre-war city of 60,000 people, and were also defending the smaller nearby city of Mirnohrad. Fierce fighting has been going on in Pokrovsk since last year.
weapons
Ukraine is opening up exports of indigenous weapons, including combat drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as a way for Kiev to make money from wartime technology and generate desperately needed funds for the country.
President Zelensky said that by 2026, 10 “export centers” for Ukrainian weapons will be opened across Europe.
Ukraine and France have agreed to begin “large-scale” joint weapons production, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhail Fedorov announced on the messaging app Telegram after welcoming French Defense Minister Catherine Vautrin in Kyiv. Fedorov did not say what kind of weapons he would produce with France or when production would begin.
politics and diplomacy
Any agreement to end Russia’s war with Ukraine must also take Russia’s security into account, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Izvestia Media. These guarantees include a refusal to deploy troops to Ukraine from NATO countries, he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russia-based media TV BRICS that Russia remains open to cooperation with the United States, but does not have high hopes for economic ties despite Washington’s continued efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed that a suspect detained in Moscow last week on suspicion of shooting dead one of the country’s most senior military intelligence officers, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, has confessed to carrying out orders from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).
The FSB also claimed that Polish intelligence services were involved in their recruitment. Neither Ukraine nor Poland have commented on the allegations.
Vikram Misri, India’s foreign minister, said India plans to maintain multiple sources of energy supplies and diversify sources as needed. The minister’s comments come after US President Donald Trump said last week that New Delhi was “committed, directly or indirectly, to suspend” fuel imports from Russia.
German prosecutors said in a statement that a Ukrainian national had been charged with a conspiracy linked to Russian intelligence to detonate packages in Europe. The suspect was arrested in Switzerland in May last year and extradited to Germany in December. The Russian government has so far denied any involvement in the alleged plot.
sanctions
The European Union is proposing to extend sanctions against Russia to include ports in Georgia and Indonesia that handle Russian oil, Reuters reported, citing a proposal document, marking the first time the bloc would target ports in third countries that trade with Russia.
The proposal would prohibit EU companies and individuals from doing business with the port.
The EU also proposed adding two Kyrgyz banks (Keremet Bank and Central Asia OJSC Capital Bank) to the sanctions list for providing crypto services to Russia, while removing two Chinese financial firms. If approved, listed banks would be prohibited from doing business with EU individuals and companies. The EU document places 30 individuals and 64 companies on a sanctions list, calling for asset freezes and travel bans. These include Bashneft, a listed subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft, as well as eight Russian refineries, including two major Rosneft-controlled plants, Tuapse and Syzran. The proposal falls short of listing Rosneft and Lukoil, which are already subject to U.S. sanctions.
sports
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Heraskevich has been told by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the helmet he used to practice for the Milan-Cortina Games, which bears the image of a compatriot killed during the Ukraine war, violates rules on political speech and cannot be used in Olympic competition.
Ukraine’s Sports Minister Matvy Vidny condemned the IOC’s actions and said Kiev has indicated that the IOC may soon ease restrictions on Russian athletes, allowing them to represent their country again at future Olympics. Bidni told The Associated Press that any changes would be “irresponsible” and appear to be condoning Russian aggression as the fourth anniversary of the start of the war approaches.
