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A person has been injured and round 100 pigs have been killed in a Russian assault on a farm within the village of Dvorichnyi Kut in Kharkiv Oblast.
Supply: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES)
Particulars: SES reported that the Russian strike precipitated hearth on the roof of the farm and injury has been recorded as effectively.
Emergency staff and SES bomb disposal consultants are working on the scene.
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The Swedish authorities authorised its twenty first bundle of navy help to Ukraine value SEK 12.9 billion (€1.2 billion) on Thursday 19 February.
Supply: Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonson, as reported by European Pravda, citing SVT, a Swedish nationwide public tv broadcaster and information web site
Particulars: Jonson mentioned the help will deal with strengthening Ukraine's air defence.
Sweden plans to supply round €400 million from this sum to provide a Tridon Mk2 system, a Swedish-made anti-aircraft missile system significantly efficient in opposition to drones. The bundle can even embrace sensors, robots and anti-aircraft weapons.
One other €524 million will assist Ukrainian manufacturing of long-range missiles and drones.
The remaining €280 million will go in direction of grenade launchers from Swedish navy shares in addition to the acquisition of artillery shells, spare components and coaching for Ukrainian personnel.
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Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė has mentioned she’s going to boycott the upcoming Milan-Cortina Paralympic Video games in protest in opposition to the choice to permit Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete underneath their nationwide flags.
Supply: Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT, as reported by European Pravda
Particulars: On Wednesday 19 February, the Lithuanian Paralympic Committee strongly criticised the choice to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part on this yr's Paralympic Video games underneath their nationwide flags.
"I had deliberate the journey to assist our Paralympic athletes and the committee, however this journey won’t happen, and our athlete representing Lithuania should be honoured right here in Lithuania," Ruginienė mentioned on Žinių Radijas.
She as soon as once more criticised the Worldwide Paralympic Committee, stating that its choice "doesn’t replicate immediately's actuality".
Quote: "We’d like unity and resilience in opposition to all provocations, and we should say that in Europe we stand united and imagine in Ukraine's victory."
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A joint investigative staff of Moldovan police and Ukrainian regulation enforcement authorities is probing the preparation of the assassination of a number of public figures in Ukraine.
Supply: Moldova's Common Inspectorate of Police (IGP), as reported by European Pravda, citing Newsmaker, a Moldovan information outlet
Particulars: Moldovan regulation enforcement officers acknowledged that the felony actions are being "orchestrated by Russian secret companies".
In line with the IGP, operations have been carried out since 06:00 by officers of the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and investigators from the Nationwide Investigation Inspectorate, along with prosecutors from the Prosecutor's Workplace for Combating Organised Crime and Particular Instances, supported by law enforcement officials from the Fulger brigade.
The actions are going down "throughout the framework of a joint investigative group shaped by Moldovan law enforcement officials and Ukrainian regulation enforcement businesses to research the preparation of the assassination of a number of public figures in Ukraine and felony exercise directed by Russian particular companies".
The Common Inspectorate of Police mentioned it would present additional particulars after the completion of procedural actions.
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Russian forces have launched 37 Shahed, Gerbera and Italmas loitering munitions in addition to drones of different sorts to assault Ukraine for the reason that night of 18 February. Ukrainian air defence items have downed 29 drones, and the assault is ongoing.
Supply: Ukraine's Air Power on Telegram
Quote: "As of 08:30, air defence had shot down or jammed 29 Shahed, Gerbera and Italmas loitering munitions in addition to drones of different sorts over the north, south and east of the nation. Hits by assault UAVs had been recorded at 4 areas."
Particulars: The assault drones have been launched from the Russian cities of Bryansk and Kursk in addition to from quickly occupied Donetsk. Round 20 of them have been Shahed loitering munitions.
Plane, anti-aircraft missile items, digital warfare property, unmanned techniques items and cell hearth teams from Ukraine's defence forces have been concerned in repelling the assault.
As of 08:50, the assault is ongoing, as a number of Russian UAVs are nonetheless in Ukrainian airspace.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned that nobody can assure that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin won’t launch one other assault on Ukraine.
Supply: Zelenskyy in an interview with Piers Morgan
Quote: "So for at this time, no one may give us, you understand, a really sturdy phrase, with all respect to the highly effective American president and America as an entire, I imply, America like a robust nation, with all respect, and we’d like their safety ensures. However even having all this, no one can inform us and provides us the phrase that Putin won’t come once more."
Particulars: Zelenskyy careworn that Ukraine wants sturdy safety ensures.
Quote: "After we discuss safety ensures, we imply we’d like sturdy safety ensures that the remainder of the world or some nations might be able to reply Putin if he comes again together with his aggression."
Background: Zelenskyy mentioned that the US is providing Ukraine safety ensures for 15 years, however Kyiv is searching for a dedication of greater than 20 years.
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Ukraine's Particular Operations Forces have posted a video of a profitable operation by the 4th Rangers Regiment on one of many fronts.
Supply: press service of the Particular Operations Forces
Particulars: Not too long ago a particular forces group raided a Russian place. Throughout direct actions, the Ukrainians provided the Russian troops the prospect to give up, however they refused to cooperate. Two of the Russians had been killed because of this.
It’s reported that after the raid, operatives from the 4th regiment carried out a profitable tactical withdrawal of personnel.
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A 61-year-old man has been killed in a Russian assault on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Supply: State Emergency Service of Ukraine on social media
Particulars: Within the Synelnykove district, Russian forces struck the Pokrovsk and Mezhova hromadas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] A home was fully destroyed in an airstrike.
Emergency employees discovered the physique of a person below the rubble. A second assault brought about a fireplace at one other home which was shortly extinguished by firefighters.
Within the Nikopol district, the Russians hit the town of Nikopol and the Myrove, Pokrovsk, Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka hromadas. Homes, civilian infrastructure and automobiles have been broken.
No additional casualties have been reported.
Background: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of army analysts, reported earlier that Russian models have been pushed again by Ukrainian defenders in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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A Ukrainian soldier who took half within the Hedgehog 2025 workouts has stated the drills confirmed that NATO troops don’t totally perceive the risk posed by drones or how you can reply on the battlefield.
Supply: Nick, commander of a UAV platoon within the 412nd Nemesis brigade, in an interview with hromadske, a Ukrainian public broadcaster
Quote: "The infantry reacted weakly to approaching threats. In some instances they tried to disperse, in some they didn’t. They didn’t perceive it was a risk. We advised them it shouldn’t be like that. If there’s a risk from the sky, it is advisable take cowl as rapidly as attainable and take into consideration what sort of shelter to take so you aren’t marked from above, as a result of if you’re noticed, take into account that you’ll be 200-ed [killed – ed.] in a jiffy."
Particulars: Nick stated the pilots' main activity was to hit gear. As they flew in the direction of targets, the pilots generally noticed 10 NATO troops standing close by with out reacting to a drone within the sky. In such instances, Nick stated he went to the commander and requested him to order the infantry to disperse, offering suggestions throughout the train.
Quote: "After they pulled right into a holding space, they didn’t disperse the automobiles. They had been parked pretty shut, 30-50 metres aside. So that you fly into the grid sq. and also you don't even have to look. You may see the focus at a look and decide it off methodically."
Extra particulars: Nick led a bunch of the Nemesis brigade's pilots. The Ukrainian drone operators ran the situation alongside a grouping in a defensive place. One other group attacked and needed to be stopped, after which the primary group counterattacked. The drill ran for 5 days.
Quote: "We carried out strike missions, logistics missions laying mines on roads and numerous humanitarian missions for our companions' infantry models – supplying meals, drones, even carrying sleeping luggage to the lads, as a result of it was coaching near actuality. Items went out to the vary and nobody introduced something to them by car."
Extra particulars: Ukrainian pilots had been tasked with "destroying" gear. At companions' request, dummy munitions had been dropped not on the goal itself however 10-15 metres away to keep away from injuring anybody. The facet supported by the Ukrainian drone pilots gained the train.
Quote: "We weren’t shocked – simply pleasantly stunned at how simple it was for us to work by the entire thing. I understood that till you reside by it, you’ll not perceive it. Particularly since our battlefield adjustments continuously and the kill zone simply retains increasing."
Extra particulars: After the fight sport ended, Ukrainian troopers crammed out an after-action evaluation type.
Quote: "They got interested and understood that it not works like that, that ways want to alter. These generals on whose facet we labored thanked us for coming from the entrance, taking our time and coming to assist them."
Extra particulars: Nick stated Estonia, the place the train passed off, is actively creating its drone functionality and exhibiting robust curiosity in UAVs. Estonian forces, he stated, used Mavic drones throughout the drills.
Background: The Wall Avenue Journal reported earlier {that a} group of Ukrainian troops "routed" NATO forces with drones throughout workouts in Estonia in spring 2025.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that the political points surrounding potential compromises and the mandatory assembly of state leaders weren’t sufficiently resolved in the course of the trilateral Ukraine-US-Russia negotiations to finish the struggle.
Supply: Zelenskyy in his night handle
Quote: "Right this moment we spoke intimately a number of instances with our staff on the negotiations in Geneva. There was a second day of conferences – each in a three-way format and different codecs. Ukraine is taken with reaching outcomes.
As of at the moment, we can not say that the result’s enough. The army mentioned a few of the points significantly and meaningfully. Delicate political points, questions on potential compromises, and the mandatory assembly of leaders haven’t but been sufficiently labored out."
Particulars: Ukraine is anticipating the subsequent assembly possible in February, as said by Zelenskyy.
He additionally emphasised that the presence of European representatives – from France, the UK, Germany, Italy and Switzerland – is essential.
Quote: "I additionally tasked the delegation to debate the humanitarian monitor – the necessity for prisoner of struggle exchanges and civilian releases. We search for data for every individual and all the time work to convey again our folks – convey again Ukrainians to their residence. Every change issues.
I’m additionally grateful to our troopers on the entrance, those that are conducting energetic assaults and replenishing the change pool for us, for Ukraine. Our troopers' braveness is what ensures all of this: humanitarian outcomes and our capacity to diplomacy, in addition to our sturdy diplomatic place."
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