A woman in Kyiv walks past destroyed Russian military equipment on a frosty winter day. Photo by Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko.
- The Kremlin emphasized that to achieve progress in resolving the conflict in Ukraine, it is necessary to follow the "understandings" reached in Anchorage during negotiations between Putin and Trump in August of last year.
- In 2026, the Ewald von Kleist Prize, awarded for contributions to international cooperation and conflict resolution, was awarded to the Ukrainian people.
- The company "Ukrenergo," which manages the Ukrainian energy system, announced plans to limit electricity supply to all regions of the country over the next day.
- On Monday night, Russian troops struck Ukraine, launching 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 149 strike drones, according to the report from the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- As a result of a drone strike in the Dnipro district of Kherson, a 14-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man were injured.
- Three people were injured in the Synelnykove and Nikopol districts of Dnipropetrovsk region due to Russian shelling.
- Russian forces again shelled production facilities of "Naftogaz" in the Poltava and Sumy regions of Ukraine.
- The mayor of Belgorod, Valentin Demidov, reported that a shell fired by Ukrainian forces damaged the roof of one of the city's enterprises.
- In Belgorod, due to energy supply issues caused by strikes from Ukraine, there was an emergency shutdown at two water intakes, leaving 100,000 residents without water.
- The FSB of Russia announced the detention of two men suspected of attempting to assassinate the first deputy head of the GRU, Vladimir Alekseev, claiming they acted on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which is categorically denied by Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian project DeepState, which tracks the situation on the front in real-time, recorded the advance of Russian troops near the settlement of Tikhoye in the Volchansk community of Kharkiv region, as well as near Privolnoye, Vasyukovka, Nikiforovka, and Pokrovsk in Donetsk region.
- Despite restrictions on the use of Starlink, the Russian army continues to operate drones in real-time using Mesh networks that are coordinated with each other, as reported by the advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Sergey Beskrestnov.
- The European Union proposed to impose sanctions against the ports of Kulevi (Georgia) and Karimun (Indonesia) for operations involving Russian oil, according to reports from Reuters.
- The defense ministers of Ukraine and France signed a memorandum of intent for joint production of weapons, including fighters, air defense systems, and missiles.
