Druzhkovka in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region, located 30 km from the front line. Photo by Serhii Korovainyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that a new round of trilateral negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the USA will take place in Abu Dhabi from February 4 to 5.
- Kyiv was subjected to a massive strike by Russian armed forces, resulting in damage to residential high-rise buildings. Explosions were also recorded in Kharkiv and Dnipro, and drones were spotted in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Sumy, and Kyiv regions.
- As a result of a drone attack in the Synelnykivskyi district of Dnipropetrovsk region, a 67-year-old man tragically lost his life.
- In the Belgorod region of Russia, a Ukrainian drone attacked an official's service vehicle that was delivering bread to a village and taking local residents to a pharmacy. As a result, he sustained mine-explosive injuries and shrapnel wounds. Another man was injured due to a strike on an administrative building in Shebekino. A third victim was driving a KamAZ truck that was attacked by a drone but did not require hospitalization — the truck's cabin was burned.
- Two people died in Stary Oskol, Belgorod region, due to a drone strike on a private house on the night of February 2. A fire broke out, and the building partially collapsed; rescuers found the bodies of the two deceased.
- In Kharkiv, a market in the Slobidsky district was shelled, resulting in two people being injured and several trading pavilions being damaged.
- In the Zaporizhzhia region, one person was killed and another was injured as a result of a strike. The head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported that Russian military forces destroyed a private house in the village of Veselyi Hai, with a 38-year-old woman becoming a victim.
- U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop purchasing Russian oil during their conversation.
- Kyiv is returning to planned power outages after emergency measures, as energy workers managed to stabilize the situation.
- The World Bank intends to allocate up to $40 million to Ukraine for the purchase of equipment for the energy sector, as reported by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
- The Ukrainian government has decided to introduce a "white list" for Starlink satellite communication terminals, which will include only verified and registered devices; others will be disconnected soon.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino expressed the need to reconsider the decision to suspend Russian teams from international tournaments, claiming that this ban has not yielded results and has only intensified negative emotions. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described Infantino as a "moral degenerate" following his statements.
- Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto reported that Budapest has filed a lawsuit in the European Court demanding the repeal of the REPowerEU regulation that prohibits the import of Russian energy resources.
- In Germany, five people were arrested as part of an investigation into violations of sanctions against Russia. Searches and detentions took place in several federal states; all those arrested are German citizens, three of whom also hold Russian passports, and one has a Ukrainian passport.
