These are important developments since day 1,448 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Published February 11, 2026
Here’s what happened on Wednesday, February 11th.
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Four people, including three young children, were killed in a Russian attack in the Ukrainian city of Bokhodukiv in western Kharkiv, regional governor Ole Sinievov announced early Wednesday on the messaging app Telegram.
“Two one-year-old boys and one two-year-old girl were killed in enemy fire,” Sinyevov said, as well as a 34-year-old man. It added that a 74-year-old woman was also injured. Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have left the Lozova region of Kharkiv region without electricity, local official Serhiy Zelenskyy said. Siniehubov later declared an energy emergency, citing “incessant enemy shelling” across the region. A mother and her 11-year-old daughter were killed and 16 others injured in a Russian missile attack, the Donetsk District Prosecutor’s Office said in a Facebook post. Five people were killed in a Ukrainian military attack on Vasilevka in the Russian-occupied region of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region, Moscow-appointed local official Natalya Romanichenko told Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. A priest was killed in a Ukrainian military attack on a funeral procession in Skerki, also in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia, Tass news agency reported, citing Russian officials who widely condemned the attack. According to TASS news agency, Russian-appointed officials said the Ukrainian attack caused a power outage in the Russian-occupied region of Zaporizhzhia and a heating outage in Enerkhodar, also in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia. One of the two external power lines supplying electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been severed as a result of the Ukrainian attack, the Russian-installed power plant’s manager announced on Tuesday. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced that a man was killed in a drone attack on a Ukrainian van in the Shebekinsky district of Russia’s Belgorod region. Russian air defense systems shot down three guided airstrikes and 72 Ukrainian drones in one day, TASS reported.
military aid
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in a virtual briefing that 21 NATO allies and two partners have committed to purchase more than $4.5 billion in U.S. weapons through the Ukraine Priority Request List (PURL) initiative. Whittaker said he expected further commitments to buy weapons to Kyiv to be announced when defense ministers meet in Brussels on Thursday. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the Ukrainian military received an additional injection of 4.5 billion Ukrainian hryvnia ($104.5 million) in the past month to order drones and electronic warfare systems.
politics and diplomacy
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his country’s support for efforts to end Russia’s war with Ukraine in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the president’s office announced. The Kremlin also confirmed that the two leaders had discussed war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that although France has not officially restored relations with Russia, Russia “takes note of Mr. Macron’s statements regarding the need to restore relations with Russia,” referring to French President Emmanuel Macron. “We are impressed by such statements,” Peskov added. Moscow’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor announced further restrictions on the Telegram platform in Russia, saying the messaging app does not “comply” with Russian law, “personal information is not protected” and that the app “does not have effective measures to combat fraud and the use of messaging apps for criminal and terrorist purposes.” Russian-born Telegram founder Pavel Durov defended the app, which is widely used in Ukraine and Russia, saying Telegram is committed to protecting free speech and user privacy “under any pressure.”
sanctions
The management of Germany’s PCK Schwedt refinery, which is controlled by Russia’s Rosneft Energy Company, has made an “urgent appeal” to Germany’s Economy and Energy Minister Katerina Reich, saying the threat of US sanctions could adversely affect fuel supplies to Berlin and the region. Berlin had secured a sanctions exception for the refinery, but that is set to expire on April 29.
