A drone crashed into a residential building in Kyiv. Photo Reuters / Gleb Garanich.
- The first day of trilateral negotiations in the UAE capital has concluded. According to Politico, sources from Ukraine and the U.S. indicate that the results may be more promising than previously thought.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an upcoming prisoner exchange with the Russian side.
- According to Zelensky, over 1,100 apartment buildings in Kyiv remain without heating.
- As a result of an airstrike in the Rostov region of Russia, a warehouse and parked cars in Bataysk were damaged. Drones were shot down not only in this city but also over Rostov, Taganrog, Novoshakhtinsk, and in the Azov region.
- Russian drones attacked the Sumy region of Ukraine, where one of the debris hit a car, injuring a 59-year-old driver.
- In Druzhkivka, the Russian army shelled the city with cluster munitions, resulting in at least seven deaths and 15 injuries.
- During the night, an attack occurred in Odesa, injuring five people, local authorities reported.
- In the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region, four people died in a day due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- On February 3, Russia launched a massive strike on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other regions, targeting energy infrastructure facilities.
- In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people died and two others were injured from strikes.
- A Polish Ministry of Defense employee was detained in Warsaw on suspicion of espionage, accused of collaborating with Russian and Belarusian intelligence agents.
- Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys appealed to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for high-ranking Russian officials accused of genocide for bombarding Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
- Estonian authorities detained the container ship Baltic Spirit, flagged in the Bahamas, near Naissaar Island, which had a Russian crew on board. The vessel was en route from Ecuador to St. Petersburg.
