Category: World

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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A number of Western leaders and capitals are intentionally slowing down the creation of a "tribunal for Putin". This can be a severe accusation, but it surely has strong grounds…

Items from Ukraine's defence forces struck the Luhanska oil depot within the quickly occupied a part of Luhansk Oblast on the night time of 26-27 February.

Supply: Normal Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Quote: "Items from the Ukrainian defence forces struck the Luhanska oil depot within the quickly occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast on the night time of 26-27 February as a part of efforts to cut back the navy and financial potential of the Russian aggressor."

Particulars: In accordance with the Ukrainian navy, the power was used to provide Russian navy items. A big-scale hearth was recorded after the strike. Data is being gathered on the extent of the injury.

As well as, the defence forces struck gasoline and lubricant storage factors close to Mariupol, Novotoretske and Koptieve within the quickly occupied a part of Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian forces additionally struck a command submit for Russian unmanned aerial autos close to Raiske within the quickly occupied a part of Kherson Oblast.

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A fireplace has damaged out within the lodge within the centre of town of Sumy following a Russian drone strike on the morning of 27 February.

Supply: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Navy Administration; Serhii Kryvosheienko, Head of Sumy Metropolis Navy Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Quote: "The Russians struck a constructing in central Sumy with a drone early within the morning. After the primary hit, the Russians treacherously performed a second strike whereas emergency providers had been working on the scene."

Particulars: The State Emergency Service added that the Russians had focused a lodge.

Hryhorov stated that no casualties had been recorded as all individuals had been evacuated in time.

All the suitable providers are working to take care of the aftermath of the strike.

Kryvosheienko later stated that fifty individuals had been evacuated. The hearth has been extinguished.

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Manufacturing services of a nitrogen fertiliser and ammonium nitrate plant within the Russian city of Dorogobuzh had been destroyed following an assault by Ukraine's defence forces utilizing Ukrainian FP-1 drones.

Supply: CyberBoroshno, a Ukrainian OSINT neighborhood

Particulars: The OSINT neighborhood reported that the Ukrainian UAVs struck services concerned within the manufacturing, storage and transportation of ammonium nitrate. The satellite tv for pc imagery taken after the strike reveals the proof.

Quote: "A sequence of explosions occurred on the car loading web site, the railway terminal, and straight on the completed items warehouse. Ammonium nitrate manufacturing services had been additionally caught within the blast zone."

Particulars: The blast wave attributable to the FP-1 strikes utterly destroyed one of many overpasses and broken a part of the adjoining manufacturing services. The pictures additionally present particles scattered "throughout a big space" following the explosions. Analysts say that in 2024, the affected manufacturing web site accounted for about 10% of Russia's whole ammonium nitrate output.

The focused plant produced ammonium nitrate and nitric acid. These substances are used within the manufacture of explosives, propellants, TNT and RDX, as reported by the Protection Categorical (Ukrainian media outlet).

The OSINT mission Exilenova+ reported that, along with the ammonia plant, Ukraine's defence forces additionally struck a mixed warmth and energy (CHP) plant in Dorogobuzh.

Quote: "Based on accessible supplies, one of many pretty giant buildings on the plant's premises sustained critical harm. Almost certainly, this issues the coal crushing and switch unit, a key component of the gas provide system for the thermal energy plant. A further indicator is the absence of steam from the smokestacks. As of in the present day, this will likely counsel that the CHP plant is just not working or is in shutdown mode."

Background:

• OSINT analysts had revealed the aftermath of a strike carried out with FP-5 Flamingo missiles on a Russian plant in Votkinsk.
• As well as, the Ukrainian group OSINT Varta, collectively with the Lex Talionis mission, launched an interactive map containing knowledge on greater than 6,000 enterprises of Russia's military-industrial advanced and their staff.

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