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The USA has provided for the primary time to host the subsequent spherical of trilateral talks on ending Russia's battle in opposition to Ukraine on its territory.

Supply: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a gathering with journalists, as reported by LIGA, a Ukrainian information company

Particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned that the venue for the talks may very well be Miami.

Quote: "America has provided for the primary time for the 2 negotiating teams, Ukraine and Russia, to satisfy within the US, most likely in Miami, in per week. We have now confirmed our participation."

Extra particulars: Zelenskyy additionally mentioned he had spoken by cellphone with the Ukrainian delegation after all of the conferences.

Private briefings from the negotiating crew members are scheduled for 7 February after the delegation returns from the UAE to Ukraine.

Background:

• Zelenskyy additionally mentioned that the US had proposed that Russia's battle in opposition to Ukraine be ended earlier than the summer season, as they’d have a special precedence in a while, particularly the US congressional elections.
• He additionally confirmed that the territorial challenge and the problem of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant remained unresolved throughout talks in Abu Dhabi.
• Zelenskyy additionally mentioned that US representatives in Abu Dhabi had as soon as once more proposed introducing an vitality ceasefire.

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Airports in Rzeszów and Lublin have suspended operations attributable to a large-scale aerial Russian assault on Ukraine, whereas navy aviation has been deployed in Polish airspace.

Supply: statements by the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces and the Polish Air Navigation Companies Company, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The Operational Command mentioned that navy aviation has begun working in Polish airspace in view of the exercise of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation finishing up strikes on Ukrainian territory.

"In accordance with relevant procedures, the Operational Command of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland engaged the mandatory forces and property at its disposal. Floor-based air defence and radar reconnaissance methods have been placed on alert. These measures are preventive in nature and aimed toward making certain safety and defending the airspace," the assertion mentioned.

The Air Navigation Companies Company reported that airports in Rzeszów and Lublin have suspended aviation operations as a way to make sure the unrestricted operation of navy aviation.

Background:

• On the night time of 6-7 February, Russian forces carried out a mixed large-scale strike on Ukraine, notably concentrating on western oblasts.
• Emergency energy outages had been launched in Kyiv and quite a few Ukrainian oblasts on account of the Russian assault.

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Ukrainian Power Minister Denys Shmyhal has reported that key substations and 750 kV and 330 kV energy strains – which he described because the spine of Ukraine's energy grid – have been hit on the evening of 6-7 February.

Supply: Shmyhal on Telegram

Particulars: The Russians additionally attacked the Burshtyn and Dobrotvir thermal energy crops.

Quote: "Substations and 750 kV and 330 kV energy strains – the spine of Ukraine's energy grid – have been below assault…

…Energy output was lowered on the nuclear energy plant reactors by personnel. Schedules of 4 to 4 and a half queues are in impact throughout Ukraine now, and particular emergency energy minimize schedules have been launched within the japanese and northern oblasts." [Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned electricity transmission operator, defines a "queue" as a group of consumers and businesses using a specific amount of megawatts. The Dispatch Centre sets the number of queues needed across oblasts to address energy deficits. Critical infrastructure and eligible industrial companies that import at least 60% of their energy cannot be disconnected, according to a Ukrainian Cabinet resolution – ed.]

Particulars: Shmyhal added that dispatchers from Ukrenergo requested emergency help from Poland.

Background: Russian forces performed a large-scale strike on Ukraine on the evening of 6-7 February. Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv oblasts have been attacked.

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US President Donald Trump has mentioned that talks on a peaceable settlement of Russia's warfare in opposition to Ukraine are making good progress.

Supply: Trump talking to journalists aboard Air Power One

Quote: "We’ve got excellent talks going with Russia and Ukraine. We're doing a variety of good speaking. And I feel we had the outcomes right this moment."

Particulars: Along with Ukraine, Trump additionally mentioned that there have been "excellent" talks below method with Iran.

He harassed that the US is holding in depth and constructive discussions with all events concerned.

Background:

• Based on a communiqué on the end result of the trilateral talks held in Abu Dhabi on 4-5 February, the US, Ukrainian and Russian delegations mentioned strategies for implementing a ceasefire and monitoring the cessation of hostilities.
• Following the Abu Dhabi talks, the US and Russia have agreed to renew high-level navy dialogue.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the following spherical of negotiations on ending the warfare in Ukraine can be held quickly, nevertheless it won’t happen within the US.

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Ignazio Cassis, Chairman-in-Workplace of the Organisation for Safety and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Swiss International Minister, has stated after visiting Moscow that his nation has assured Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov an unhindered go to to Lugano to take part within the OSCE ministerial assembly.

Supply: Cassis at a press convention on Friday 6 February, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Cassis stated that the participation of the Russian delegation, together with Lavrov, within the OSCE Ministerial Council on 3-4 December in Lugano was mentioned immediately with Lavrov throughout their assembly in Moscow.

He added that the Russians "are prepared to come back to our discussions and even to the ministerial convention if we are able to assure, in fact, the logistics and the safety".

Quote: "I instructed him [Lavrov] that that is what Switzerland can [do] and we demonstrated that we already had been in a position to welcome Madame Matviyenko, President of the Duma, in July final yr with out difficulties. And we are able to assure such venue from some such journey for Minister Lavrov to the ministerial convention in Lugano this yr."

Background:

• After visiting Kyiv and Moscow, Cassis reported that he had introduced three teams of concepts on behalf of the OSCE in each capitals and is now awaiting a response.
• OSCE Secretary Basic Feridun Sinirlioğlu stated after his go to to Moscow that he hopes to see leads to the approaching weeks concerning the discharge of three Ukrainian employees members of the organisation who had been illegally detained by Russia in spring 2022.

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Ukraine's Ministry of Finance and the World Financial institution have signed an settlement to supply grant funding from Japan and Canada value almost US$691 million.

Supply: Ukraine's Ministry of Finance

Particulars: The funds are mobilised below the Public Expenditures for Administrative Capability Endurance (PEACE) in Ukraine challenge.

The financing is included within the G7 Extraordinary Income Acceleration for Ukraine mechanism, which makes use of revenues from frozen Russian property, with a complete quantity of US$50 billion.

That is the ultimate tranche from Canada below the mechanism and the primary from Japan.

Grant contributions from worldwide companions are as follows:

• US$544 million from the Authorities of Japan
• US$146 million from Canada
• US$0.8 million from the PEACE in Ukraine Multi-Donor Belief Fund.

The grant funding shall be transferred to Ukraine's common state finances quickly.

The funds shall be used to cowl key state expenditures, together with pension funds and social help programmes resembling housing and utility subsidies.

Background: The PEACE in Ukraine challenge has been applied since June 2022 in response to Russia's full-scale aggression in opposition to Ukraine.

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Ukrainska Pravda has found that Andrii Yermak, former head of the Ukrainian President's Workplace, met with Rustem Umierov, Secretary of the Nationwide Safety and Defence Council, on the residential advanced the place Umierov lives on the night of 30 January. Yermak stayed there for round three hours. Umierov confirmed the assembly to Ukrainska Pravda, describing the dialog as common.

Supply: Ukrainska Pravda in an investigation titled Godfather working remotely: how Ukrainska Pravda has tracked down Andrii Yermak

Particulars: Ukrainska Pravda journalists documented Yermak on 30 January travelling from a gymnasium to a residential advanced the place sources say Umierov lives. His motorcade was met on the underground automobile park by Umierov's safety guard.

Yermak stayed within the constructing for about three hours and left at 23:17.

Umierov confirmed the assembly to Ukrainska Pravda, saying the dialog lasted about an hour and coated common matters: life, work and occasions in Ukraine.

He mentioned that since Yermak stepped down, they’ve had few alternatives to talk, regardless of having labored intently collectively for a very long time.

He additionally denied that Yermak or anybody else have affect on his selections or work.

Learn extra: Corruption probe: Mindich accused of forming criminal organisation, laundering money and swaying then-defence minister

Background:

• On 28 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported that officers from the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Workplace (SAPO) have been conducting searches at Yermak's workplace within the authorities district. Ukrainska Pravda journalists managed to file round 10 staff from NABU and SAPO coming into the federal government district.
• On 29 November 2025, Yermak introduced that he was going to the entrance after resigning from his submit as head of the President's Workplace amid a corruption scandal and a search by NABU at his residence.
• Yermak confirmed that the search was happening at his dwelling and mentioned he was prepared to help the investigation.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later introduced that he had accepted Yermak's resignation as head of the President's Workplace and that the establishment would now bear a reboot.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Kyrylo Budanov, former head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), as head of the Workplace of the President of Ukraine.
• On 15 January, NABU director Semen Kryvonos mentioned that Yermak and former defence minister Umierov didn’t have the standing of suspects within the Mindich case on the time.
• It was reported on 25 January that Yermak had reinstated his proper to practise legislation.

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Russian forces have attacked Sumy and Kherson oblasts with drones, killing two civilians.

Supply: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Army Administration; Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Army Administration

Particulars: A Russian drone hit a civilian automotive within the Mykolaivka hromada in Sumy Oblast. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] The automobile caught hearth.

A 31-year-old girl who was driving the automotive was killed.

Russian forces additionally attacked an evacuation automobile with drones within the settlement of Beryslav in Kherson Oblast.

Quote from Prokudin: "Volunteers who have been rescuing folks from mortal hazard got here underneath enemy hearth. Their automobile burned down after drone strikes.

Since 4 February, they and native residents had been unable to go away due to the fixed risk of Russian UAV strikes. Solely at this time, because of the large efforts of our navy, have been they rescued.

The volunteers and 4 residents have been evacuated to a safer hromada; three of them have been injured. All of them are at present underneath medical supervision."

Particulars: A 44-year-old man sustained deadly accidents because of a drone strike on a automotive.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to obtain a report from the Ukrainian delegation which is getting back from the United Arab Emirates.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night handle on 6 February, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned that the Ukrainian delegation is returning late tonight, and tomorrow stories will probably be offered "on these delicate elements of the Abu Dhabi talks that can not be mentioned over the cellphone".

Quote: "We’re making ready for the following trilateral conferences. Tomorrow we can even converse with our European companions."

Background:

• In accordance with a communiqué on the end result of the trilateral talks held in Abu Dhabi on 4-5 February, the US, Ukrainian and Russian delegations mentioned strategies for implementing a ceasefire and monitoring the cessation of hostilities.
• Following the Abu Dhabi talks, the US and Russia have agreed to renew high-level army dialogue.

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Russian forces would want at the least two years to totally seize Donetsk Oblast ultimately 12 months's tempo of their advances within the area, in accordance with assessments by DeepState, a Ukrainian group of navy analysts.

Supply: DeepState co-founders Ruslan Mykula and Roman Pohorilyi at a particular session of the Kyiv Safety Discussion board, as cited by Ukrinform

Quote from Mykula: "Seventy-eight per cent of Donetsk Oblast is at present occupied by the enemy. How rapidly can the Russians occupy Donetsk Oblast? It’s value noting that earlier than the full-scale invasion, the Russians managed 32.3% of the oblast's territory. In 2022, the enemy captured one other 24.4% of the oblast. From 2023 to now, 21.8%. A complete of 21.5% of the oblast at present stays underneath the management of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. If we take the tempo of 2025, as it’s indicative, the enemy will want at the least 742 days, or about two years, to totally occupy Donetsk Oblast."

Quote from Pohorilyi: "Some predicted that Pokrovsk would fall by the New 12 months. Nevertheless, as we speak we see that the northern outskirts of each cities – Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad – stay underneath the management of the defence forces amid ongoing combating."

Particulars: Pohorilyi mentioned that the Russians are at present deploying the most important quantity of their assets on this area, "a grouping of greater than 100,000 troops that can’t address these cities and Ukraine's defence forces".

"Talking about additional developments, as soon as sure settlements fall, and so they [Russian forces – ed.] will seize them ultimately as a consequence of their important potential, they may transfer deeper into Donetsk Oblast," he mentioned.

Pohorilyi added that the Russians' goal would then be Ukrainian logistics, with the intention to stop advances in direction of the following cities, the place the principle battle for Donetsk Oblast will happen. The analysts say this battle will unfold in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

In the meantime, Mykula and Pohorilyi careworn that Russian forces are at present probing Ukrainian defences: "makes an attempt are already happening throughout which they determine our weak factors".

"We forecast at the least two years of combating, throughout which they may lose a colossal quantity of personnel, gear and different assets," the analysts concluded.

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