These are the important thing developments from day 1,456 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Printed On 19 Feb 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Thursday, February 19:
Preventing
- Russian forces launched a number of assaults on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, killing one particular person and injuring seven others over the previous day, the area’s army administration mentioned on the Telegram messaging platform.
- The assaults concerned 448 drones in addition to 163 artillery strikes, inflicting injury to 136 houses, vehicles and different constructions, the army administration mentioned.
- Russian forces additionally continued shelling Ukraine’s Donetsk area, forcing 173 folks, together with 135 kids, to evacuate front-line areas over the previous day, regional governor Vadym Filashkin mentioned on Telegram.
- A 54-year-old man was killed in a Russian assault within the Nikopol district of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha mentioned on Telegram.
- Russian assaults additionally left many individuals with out electrical energy throughout Ukraine, in response to the Ministry of Power, together with greater than 99,000 households within the Odesa area.
- In Russia, one particular person was killed in a Ukrainian drone assault on the village of Aleynikovo within the nation’s Bryansk area, Governor Alexander Bogomaz mentioned.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned that Russian forces seized the village of Kharkivka in Ukraine’s Sumy area and Krynychne within the Zaporizhia area, in response to Russia’s state information company TASS.
- Ukrainian battlefield monitoring website DeepState mentioned that Russian forces superior in Nykyforivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk area.
- Russian forces shot down 155 Ukrainian drones, 11 rocket launchers, and two guided aerial bombs in a 24-hour interval, Russia’s Defence Ministry mentioned, in response to TASS.
Peace talks
- Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine concluded the second of two days of US-mediated talks in Geneva, with either side describing the negotiations as “tough”.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that though “progress has been made … for now, positions differ as a result of the negotiations had been tough”.
- President Zelenskyy later advised the Piers Morgan Uncensored present affairs present that Russia and Ukraine had been near defining phrases for the way a possible ceasefire could be monitored, however progress on “political” points had been slower, together with on essentially the most divisive difficulty of management of territory.
- In Washington, White Home spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt mentioned there was “significant progress made” with pledges “to proceed to work in the direction of a peace deal collectively”, and extra talks are anticipated within the close to future.
- Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s prime negotiator, mentioned the 2 days of talks in Geneva had been “tough however businesslike,” telling reporters that additional negotiations could be held quickly, with out specifying when.
- Rustem Umerov, the top of Kyiv’s negotiating staff, mentioned that the second day had been “intensive and substantive” and that either side had been working in the direction of selections that may be despatched to their presidents, he mentioned.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine imposed sanctions towards Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, promising to “improve countermeasures” towards Minsk for supporting Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine, together with via offering relay stations for Russian drone assaults on Ukraine, Zelenskyy mentioned on social media.
- United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire together with three different US senators from the Democratic Get together visited Kyiv.
- Shaheen advised reporters that she “would hope that we might see a stronger effort and a few actual work after we get again to place strain on Putin”.
Sport
- Estonian Overseas Minister Margus Tsahkna mentioned in a put up on Telegram that “permitting Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part within the Milano-Cortina Paralympics whereas Russia continues its full-scale warfare towards Ukraine is a shame”.
- Estonian Public Broadcasting firm Eesti Rahvusringhaaling introduced it could not broadcast the video games in protest on the choice to permit the Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete beneath their very own flags.
