These are the main developments since day 1,450 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Friday, February 13th:

struggle

• Russia launched a series of nighttime ballistic missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities on Thursday, officials reported, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow was “hesitant” about another round of U.S.-brokered talks to end the war.
• Russian forces launched 219 drones and 24 ballistic missiles late Thursday, causing injuries, deaths and damage to energy infrastructure in Kiev, Odessa and Dnipro, President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
• Two people were killed and six injured in an attack at the Lozova railway hub northeast of Kharkiv on the border with Russia, local prosecutors said.
• Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said on Telegram that nearly 2,600 high-rise apartment buildings were without heating following Russia’s latest attacks, especially in the capital’s Denyansky, Dniprosky, Pechersky and Soloyansky districts.
• Klitschko said the attack on the capital came as 1,100 high-rise buildings in the Dniprovsky and Dalnitsky districts “already have no heating after the last shelling” and temperatures in Kiev are expected to drop to -13 degrees Celsius (8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this week.
• Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said that the Ukrainian attack caused an accident at a substation, causing more than 220,000 people in Russia’s Belgorod region to lose power.
• In Odessa, the state emergency service said Russian drones hit a nine-story residential building, an open-air market and a supermarket, sparking multiple fires. Emergency services added in a Facebook post that the drone strikes also damaged energy infrastructure.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said that based on preliminary reports, Ukrainian troops attacked an oil refinery in Ukhta, Russia’s Komi republic, about 1,750 kilometers (1,087 miles) from the Ukrainian border, causing a fire.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia’s attack last month on the Ukrainian branch of the Soviet-built Druzhba oil pipeline prevented Russian oil from being shipped to eastern Europe. Despite the war with Russia, Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian gas last year but continued shipping Russian oil to Slovakia and Hungary.
• Ukraine says the bodies of two Nigerians fighting for Russia have been found in the east of the country. According to a statement from the Ukrainian intelligence agency, Hamzat Kazeem Kolawole and Mbah Stephen Udoka both served in the 423rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

military aid

• British Defense Secretary John Healey said Ukraine’s allies have pledged about $35 billion in military aid to Kyiv this year. A diplomat told Reuters that the figure includes new commitments from various countries, as well as previous arms commitments made by Ukraine’s allies, including 11.5 billion euros ($13.6 billion) already announced by Germany.
• German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Germany is ready to provide five new PAC-3 interceptors for Ukraine’s air defense, provided that Ukraine’s other allies deliver at least 30 more.
• Norway has announced it will buy a “large number” of French glide bombs as part of a bilateral deal to militarily support Ukraine against a Russian invasion.
• Britain announced it would “urgently provide” anti-aircraft missiles and systems worth more than 500 million pounds ($681 million) “to protect Ukraine from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s brutal attacks on energy sites and homes.”
• A report by the Kiel Institute for World Economics, a German think tank, shows that U.S. military aid to Ukraine will be reduced by 99% in 2025 compared with 2024. The Kiir report found that in 2025 “European military aid increased by 67% compared with the 2022-2024 average”.

peace talks

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said another round of talks on ending the war in Ukraine was expected “soon” but gave no further details.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Sibiha said Russia’s recent overnight attacks on Ukraine further undermined efforts to end the war through dialogue. “Every such attack is a blow to peace efforts aimed at ending the war. Russia must be forced to take diplomacy seriously and de-escalate the situation,” Sibiha wrote on X.

regional security

• Estonia will purchase 12 more Kaiser self-propelled howitzers from France to strengthen its defense capabilities.
• European Union leaders broadly agreed on Thursday on a plan to restructure the 27-nation economy to make it more competitive as they face confrontation from U.S. President Donald Trump, assertive tactics from China and hybrid threats from Russia.
• Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov said at a press conference that Ukraine will begin exporting weapons, including drones, in the coming weeks, the Ukrainian News Agency reported.

vitality

• Ukrainian power plants damaged by Russian missile and drone attacks are still producing too little electricity to meet the needs of the country’s citizens, Energy Minister Denis Shmyhal told the parliament’s energy committee.

Politics and Diplomacy

• French President Emmanuel Macron said he was in no rush to start a dialogue with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and stressed that Europeans needed to adjust their goals. Macron raised the prospect of resuming dialogue with Putin in an interview published by several newspapers on Tuesday.
• Washington and Moscow said six other Russian and Ukrainian children were being reunited with their families. Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s presidential commissioner for children’s rights, said in a post on Telegram that one child would be returned to Russia and five children would be reunited with their families in Ukraine.
• Ukraine accuses Russia of kidnapping thousands of children, ICC calls for president’s arrest Putin and Lvova-Belova Suspected of illegal deportation of children.
• U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would have an opportunity to meet with Zelensky at this week’s Munich Security Conference.

sports

• Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being banned from competing at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Milan. The skeleton racer was suspended following a controversy over wearing a helmet during the race to commemorate Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia.
• “(The decision) was taken by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) jury based on the fact that the helmet he intended to wear did not comply with the rules,” the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement.
• Zelensky reacted to the decision, accusing the IOC of “falling into the hands of the invaders,” and Ukrainian Sports Minister Matvey Bidny said Ukraine would use legal channels to overturn the decision.
• “We are proud of Vladislav and what he did. Courage is worth more than any medal,” Zelensky said.