These are the main developments since day 1,445 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Sunday, February 8:

struggle

• Russian forces launched more than 400 drones and some 40 missiles in a nighttime attack on Ukraine on Saturday, targeting the country power gridUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the facilities included power generation facilities and distribution substations.
• Ukrainian Energy Minister Denis Shmyhal said that two thermal power stations in western Ukraine were attacked and distribution lines were also attacked.
• Zelensky said that as a result of the attack, more than 1,000 apartment buildings in the capital Kiev remained without heating in the freezing cold.
• Ukraine’s president has criticized Moscow for targeting energy infrastructure, saying Russia must be denied the ability to use cold winter weather as leverage against Kiev. “Russia can choose real diplomacy every day, but it chooses new strikes,” he said.
• Poland on Saturday suspended operations at Lublin and Rzeszów airports near its border with Ukraine following the Russian attack. Polish authorities later said the country’s airspace had not been violated and reopened both airports.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Sunday that Ukrainian nuclear power plants had reduced power generation due to new military activities that affected substations and cut some power lines.

• Ukrainian military and security officials said Kiev struck an oil depot in Russia’s Saratov region and a missile fuel assembly factory in Russia’s western Tver region.
• According to the governor of Russia’s Bryansk region, the Ukrainian army also launched an attack on Russia’s Bryansk region using long-range Neptune missiles and HIMARS rocket systems. The attack left two people injured and knocked out power in seven cities, the official said.
• Russia’s TASS news agency said another Ukrainian missile attack on the Belgorod border area caused a power outage to multiple water supply facilities, and experts were “investigating the extent of the power outage.”
• According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian troops occupied the village of Chukhunivka in the Kharkov region of eastern Ukraine.

peace talks

• Zelensky says US has given Moscow and Kiev a June deadline to reach agreement end warThe two countries held two days of talks in Abu Dhabi this week.
• Zelensky said Washington proposed holding talks in Miami a week later and Kyiv had agreed.
• Zelensky said the United States is also asking Russia and Ukraine to agree to a new ceasefire that includes attacks on energy infrastructure as a step to de-escalate tensions during the talks. He added that Kiev was ready to stop attacks on Russian oil facilities and other energy infrastructure, but that Moscow had not yet agreed.
• The Ukrainian leader said he had received reports from Ukrainian intelligence services on discussions involving Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev’s proposed U.S.-Russian cooperation deal worth up to $12 trillion. Zelensky said any such agreement between Moscow and Washington must not violate Ukraine’s constitution.
• Zelensky added Ukraine and Russia remain far apart In a discussion about territory. He said the United States proposed establishing a free economic zone in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which Russia mainly occupies, but neither Ukraine nor Russia was interested in the idea.

• Earlier, the Ukrainian leader met his negotiating team in Kiev and said Ukraine “needs results” to ensure “effective security” in the country.

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that a third round of talks aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine should take place “soon.” But he said no date has been set yet.

politics and security

• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Abdullisibiha said Kyiv supported calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics after Italy and Pope Leo urged world leaders to use the Milan Cortina Games to promote peace.
• Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported that two suspects were suspected of attempting to assassinate senior Russian military intelligence officials General Vladimir Alexeyev “He will be questioned soon.” It cited a source close to the investigation.
• Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence service GRU, was shot in a Moscow apartment building on Friday and was taken to hospital. He underwent successful surgery and regained consciousness on Saturday but remains under medical supervision, Kommersant added.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of being behind the assassination, which he said without providing evidence was aimed at derailing peace talks.
• US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to lift the 25% punitive tariff on all Indian imports of Russian oil, the White House said. The two countries earlier announced a trade deal that would cut U.S. tariffs on Indian goods from 50% to 18% in exchange for India stopping purchases of Russian oil and lowering trade barriers.