Category: World

The US and Israel have collectively attacked Iran on 28 February and have then revealed the names for his or her operation.

Supply: Pentagon; The Instances of Israel, citing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Particulars: Israel has named its operation in opposition to Iran Lion's Roar.

The earlier Israel Defence Forces operation in opposition to Iran in June 2025 was known as Rising Lion.

The Pentagon has stated that strikes on Iran had been named Operation Epic Fury.

Background:

• The US along with Israel are finishing up strikes on Iran.
• On the identical time US President Donald Trump formally stated that america has began a army marketing campaign in Iran.
• Later Israel Defence Forces reported that it recorded the launch of missiles from territory of Iran in the direction of the State of Israel.

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America coordinated Israel's assault on Iran on 28 February.

Supply: CNN, citing Israeli and American officers, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Based on an knowledgeable supply in Israel, the assault was coordinated with the US.

Two American officers informed CNN that the strikes on Iran had concerned US participation.

One official famous that the assaults are ongoing and described them as "not a small strike".

Background: Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran and hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on the morning of 28 February. A state of emergency was declared throughout the nation, with strict measures imposed on the civilian inhabitants.

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The Russian Defence Ministry has claimed that its air defence programs downed 97 "Ukrainian drones", 40 of which had been over quickly occupied Crimea and 10 over the Black Sea.

Supply: Russian Defence Ministry

Particulars: The most important variety of drones, 40, was downed over quickly occupied Crimea. One other 22 had been destroyed over Bryansk Oblast, 16 over Belgorod Oblast and 10 over the Black Sea.

The Russian Defence Ministry added that drones had additionally been downed in different areas: 4 over Krasnodar Krai, the place a fireplace broke out at an oil refinery, two over Kursk Oblast, two over Kaluga Oblast and one over Tula Oblast.

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Following a telephone name with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has claimed that Ukraine has little interest in resuming the operation of the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Supply: Fico on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Fico claimed that Zelenskyy has refused to permit an investigative fee to enter Ukraine to evaluate the situation of the Druzhba pipeline, as Slovakia and Hungary have proposed.

Based on Fico, the Ukrainian president declined the request, citing considerations raised by safety companies.

Fico added that Ukraine has thus far not allowed Slovakia's ambassador or the EU consultant to examine the pipeline both.

He mentioned, nonetheless, that he has accepted Zelenskyy's proposal to carry joint talks on Druzhba repairs and has instructed the International Ministry to discover a appropriate date. Fico added that he would favor the assembly to happen in an EU member state moderately than in Ukraine.

Background:

• The EU Oil Coordination Group, with the participation of representatives from Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia, mentioned the scenario across the Druzhba pipeline on 25 February and concluded that at this stage its suspension doesn’t pose a menace to the EU's power safety.
• In the meantime, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán mentioned he would deploy troops to protect Hungarian power services towards an alleged "Ukrainian menace".
• The scenario across the pipeline has led Slovakia and Hungary to dam the adoption of the EU's twentieth Russia sanctions package deal. As well as, Budapest has obstructed approval of a €90 billion mortgage for Ukraine.

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Two sisters aged 13 and 16 have been introduced again from the quickly occupied territories of Ukraine. The youngsters used to stay in occupied Crimea. It took three months to plan a protected route for his or her departure from the peninsula.

Supply: Convey Children Again UA and the Ukrainian Youngster Rights Community

Particulars: The women had been born in Crimea. For 12 years, their mom had informed them that Russia was occupying the peninsula illegally and that it belonged to Ukraine. The household was wanting ahead to the liberation of their hometown.

Nevertheless, over time the mom realised that for the sake of her youngsters's security, they needed to depart for Ukrainian-controlled territory. Specifically, 16-year-old Anastasiia had lengthy dreamed of finding out at a Ukrainian college.

Quote from Convey Children Again UA: "At this time, new alternatives for training and private growth are opening up for the ladies. The household are receiving the assist they want for additional reintegration and are below the steering of a social employee and a psychologist."

Background: Seven youngsters had been not too long ago introduced again to Ukraine from quickly occupied territories after being subjected to threats, torture, beatings and non secular persecution by Russians. They’re protected now.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a gathering with Pavlo Klimkin, who was international minister from 2014 to 2019, to debate the international coverage state of affairs surrounding Ukraine.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night deal with on 27 February

Particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned that Ukraine's pursuits have to be represented, each on an official degree and by way of engagement with communities, in international locations the place freedom is presently missing or which can be beneath Russian affect.

Quote: "There might be personnel adjustments within the diplomatic corps. The International Ministry can also be making ready candidates for the place of Particular Consultant on Belarus and the Belarusian group in Europe. A extra energetic coverage is required."

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Russian forces attacked a automotive in Sumy Oblast, killing two folks, on the night of 27 February.

Supply: Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace

Quote: "In response to the investigation, on 27 February 2026 at round 18:20, the occupiers attacked a car with a drone within the Vorozhba hromada." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: Two males have been killed and a 53-year-old man was injured.

Prosecutors, along with different regulation enforcement businesses, are documenting the aftermath of the assault. A pre-trial investigation is underway into the warfare crimes that led to the deaths.

Background: Earlier on 27 February, the Russians attacked an agricultural facility within the metropolis of Shostka, Sumy Oblast. The strike on the Yampil hromada killed two girls aged 72 and 67 who labored on the facility. Their our bodies have been pulled from below the rubble.

One other worker, a 60-year-old girl, sustained severe accidents. She has been hospitalised and is receiving medical care.

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Ukrainian race walker Liudmyla Olianovska has set a brand new indoor world file within the 5,000 metres, turning into the primary girl ever to cowl the space in beneath 20 minutes.

Supply: Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne Sport

Particulars: Olianovska's historic achievement got here on day one of many Ukrainian Athletics Championships in Kyiv, the place she completed with a time of 19:53.

She beat the earlier world file, which Italy's Eleonora Giorgi had held since 2014, by eight seconds.

Commenting on her success, Olianovska didn’t cover her feelings, though she famous that breaking her personal file once more can be tough.

Quote from Olianovska: "What did I really feel on the final lap? It's an extremely sturdy end result – for a girl, it's a cosmic end result. I'll actually perceive what this end result means when I attempt to surpass it once more – I realise what number of quick segments I'll have to finish, how a lot I'll should sweat, how a lot time I'll want to take a position to return to the world and break it. However for now, I'm simply very joyful and content material."

Background: In January, Yaroslava Mahuchikh turned the primary feminine excessive jumper on the planet to clear 2.00 metres in 2026.

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The European Fee has acknowledged that it’s involved that the tempo of reforms required for Ukraine to affix the EU might decelerate.

Supply: Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos in an interview with European Pravda

Particulars: Through the interview, Kos famous that Ukraine's progress in the direction of EU membership has been "fairly quick" to this point.

"However I'm frightened that due to the state of affairs in Rada [Ukraine's parliament – ed.], the processes might decelerate. And this shouldn't occur," she stated.

Kos stated she regularly meets with representatives of the Verkhovna Rada, and when she does, she sends a transparent message: "Ukraine's accession course of or your future membership will not be a undertaking of the federal government. It’s a undertaking of the entire nation."

"In Rada, we now have the representatives of the entire nation. So that they must do what the individuals need. However I want to see the unity of constructing the reforms or adopting the reforms, additionally sooner or later. Till now, you've been nice. Now this has slowed down," she added.

Kos stated it will not be a tragedy if the implementation of sure reforms had been delayed by a couple of months.

"But when you’ll have increasingly and extra delays, then we should react," she harassed.

Nonetheless, she stated she is assured that Ukraine could make up for misplaced time.

"As soon as once more, you could have finished loads. If I evaluate you with the Western Balkan international locations – even when I don't like doing this – with this comparability, I may give you a hope that it’s doable. If I evaluate what Ukraine is doing with the Western Balkans, you might be so significantly better than they’re in doing these reforms! And you might be at warfare," she famous.

Background:

• In the identical interview, Kos stated that choices concerning Ukraine's doable fast-tracked EU accession could be taken by EU member states.
• She additionally said {that a} draft of recent guidelines for the EU enlargement course of will probably be offered in a couple of months.

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For the primary time for the reason that begin of the struggle in Ukraine, a missile menace was declared concurrently in at the least 13 Russian areas, most of which aren’t border areas, on 27 February.

Supply: The Moscow Occasions, an unbiased Amsterdam-based information outlet

Particulars: Authorities in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Saratov, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Rostov and Kursk oblasts, in addition to Perm Krai, warned of a doable missile assault. In at the least eight of those areas, a missile menace warning was declared for the primary time.

In some areas, together with Almetyevsk, public transport was quickly suspended. Evacuations of scholars have been reported in Kazan and Izhevsk, in addition to of employees at Kurumoch Airport in Samara.

Russian propagandists, citing the Chuvashia authorities, claimed that one Ukrainian Flamingo missile had been shot down over the republic, whereas one other "modified course and left the area".

In response to the Shot Telegram channel, two Flamingo missiles have been downed in Chuvashia. In the meantime, the Radar po vsey Rossii ("Radar throughout Russia") Telegram channel claimed that three missiles have been intercepted: one in Udmurtia, one in Perm Krai, and one "shot down over the Sea of Azov close to town of Taganrog".

Later, Russia's Emergencies Ministry introduced the cancellation of the missile menace regime in 9 areas of the Volga Federal District.

Background:

• In October 2025, The Economist reported that Ukraine had begun utilizing its domestically produced Flamingo missiles to strike targets inside Russia and was producing two to a few missiles per day, with plans to extend output to seven per day by the top of October.
• On 25 February, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that each one FP-5 Flamingo missiles launched throughout a strike on the Votkinsk Machine Constructing Plant in Russia's Udmurt Republic had reached their goal, demonstrating their "top quality and accuracy".

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