Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,084

Here is the concern connected Wednesday, February 12:

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone onslaught damaged an concern installation successful the Saratov portion of Russia, determination Governor Roman Busargin said.
• A Ukrainian Security and Defence Council official, Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko, said the onslaught connected Saratov targeted an lipid refinery that supplied Russian forces with fuel. No casualties were reported.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said aerial defence units intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory, retired of which 18 were destroyed successful the Saratov region.
• The Russian subject said its forces person taken power of the Yesenove colony successful eastbound Ukraine.
• Kyiv said Russia launched 124 drones and 19 missiles astatine Ukraine successful an overnight attack. According to the Ukrainian military, 57 drones were changeable down portion 66 failed to scope their targets.
• Natural state accumulation facilities were deed and damaged by Russian attacks successful cardinal Ukraine’s Poltava region, the country’s state-owned lipid and state steadfast Naftogaz said. Ukraine’s Minister of Energy German Galushchenko announced powerfulness restrictions owed to these attacks, which did not effect successful casualties.

• Russia’s state-owned TASS quality bureau reported that 2 men were sentenced to lengthy situation presumption aft they were convicted of aiding Ukraine’s Army. A subject tribunal successful occidental Kirov sentenced 1 of the men to 21 years successful situation for mounting occurrence to 3 electrical railroad structures. In a abstracted case, a 22-year-old was sentenced to 12 years successful situation for treason.
• Poland’s subject said a Russian craft violated Polish airspace implicit its territorial waters. The Russian Sukhoi 24MR tactical bomber craft reportedly flew 6.5km (4 miles) into Polish airspace and stayed for much than a minute. The Operational Command of the Russian Armed Forces said the incidental occurred owed to a navigation strategy failure.
• Russian weaponry disposal experts from the Ministry of Emergency Situations defused a French-made SCALP cruise rocket successful the Kursk region, the ministry confirmed.

Politics & Diplomacy

• US President Donald Trump said successful an interrogation with Fox News that helium wants the “hundreds of billions of dollars” spent by the United States connected Ukraine to beryllium secured careless of whether Ukraine whitethorn oregon whitethorn not suffer its sovereignty to Russia. Trump besides claimed that Kyiv had “essentially agreed” to supply $500bn worthy of uncommon world minerals to the US successful speech for Washington’s support.
• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is scheduled to sojourn Ukraine this week, Trump announced connected societal media. Reuters said Bessent would beryllium discussing a imaginable woody concerning uncommon world minerals connected the trip.
• Trump’s medication has nary volition of sending US troops into Ukraine, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters. Instead, Hegseth said helium would propulsion European allies to walk much connected defence.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium was consenting to swap Kyiv-controlled areas of Russia’s Kursk portion successful speech for Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, if negotiations took place.
• The White House announced that US peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff secured the merchandise of Marc Fogel, a US national detained successful Russia. Washington said this was a motion that things were moving successful the close absorption to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.

Ukrainian constabulary weaponry squad members enactment astatine a tract of a gathering deed by a Russian rocket onslaught successful Izyum, Ukraine, connected February 4, 2025 [Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters]

• Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a important colonisation successful Ukraine “wants to beryllium Russia”, conscionable hours aft Trump suggested Ukraine whitethorn oregon whitethorn not go portion of Russia.
• The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia has imposed “systematic and widespread” restrictions connected reporting and called retired Moscow for its coordinated efforts to suppress dissent.
• Russia’s state-owned RIA quality bureau quoted the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova arsenic saying that US Ambassador to Moscow Lynne Tracy had held talks with Moscow’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to sermon the cognition of Russian diplomatic institutions abroad.
• Ukraine’s parliament passed a instrumentality allowing the country’s authorities atomic powerfulness relation to bargain 2 Soviet-designed atomic reactors from Bulgaria for Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi powerfulness plant.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies