These are the main developments since Day 1,447 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Tuesday, February 10th:

struggle

• Russia launched night drone attacks on Ukraine, including in eastern Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions, At least four people died. Ukrainian officials said a mother and her 10-year-old son were killed in the attack, which also left tens of thousands without power.

• The Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones into Ukraine overnight. The Air Force stated that 116 of the drones launched were shot down or disabled, and some missiles were intercepted and failed to hit their targets.

• Sergii Koretskyi, chief executive of Ukraine’s state-run oil and gas company Naftogaz, said in a Facebook post that the Russian attack damaged the company’s production sites in the Poltava and Sumy regions. Koretskyi said this was the 20th attack on the company’s infrastructure this year.

• Kiev’s military said Russian troops were trying to advance around the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, hoping to end a months-long campaign to seize the strategic hub as Moscow seeks to seize the entire Donetsk region. The fall of Pokrovsk would mark Russia’s biggest battlefield victory since seizing the eastern city of Avdievka in early 2024.

• Kyiv’s General Staff says its forces still control northern areas pokrovskThe city, which had a pre-war population of 60,000, was also defending the smaller nearby city of Mirnohrad. Pokrovsk has been the scene of fierce fighting since last year.

arms

• Ukraine is opening up the export of domestically produced weapons, including combat drones, as a way for Kyiv to cash in on wartime technology and raise much-needed funds for the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

• Zelensky said that 10 Ukrainian arms “export centers” will be opened in Europe in 2026.

• Ukraine and France have agreed to start “large-scale” joint production of weapons, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov announced on the Telegram messaging app after hosting French Defense Minister Catherine Voutrin in Kiev.
• Fedorov did not specify which weapons would be produced with France or when production would start.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the “Izvestia” media that the agreement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine must also take into account Russia’s security guarantees. He said those assurances included a refusal to deploy any NATO troops in Ukraine.

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian media BRICS TV that Russia remains open to cooperation with the United States but has no hope for economic ties, even as Washington works to end the war in Ukraine.

• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed that the suspect in last week’s shooting death of one of the country’s top military intelligence officials in Moscow, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, admitted that they were carrying out orders from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

• Russia’s FSB also claimed Polish intelligence services were involved in their recruitment. Neither Ukraine nor Poland have commented on the accusations.

• Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that India plans to maintain multiple sources of energy supply and diversify its energy supply when needed. The minister’s comments came after US President Donald Trump said last week that New Delhi was “committed to stopping directly or indirectly” fuel imports from Russia.

• Germany has charged a Ukrainian citizen in connection with a plot by Russian intelligence to detonate packages in Europe, German prosecutors said in a statement. The suspect was arrested in Switzerland in May last year and extradited to Germany in December. Moscow has previously denied involvement in the alleged plot.

sanctions

• The European Union proposes to expand the scope of sanctions against Russia to include ports in Georgia and Indonesia that handle Russian oil, Reuters reported, citing a proposal document. This is the first time the EU has targeted ports in a third country that has transactions with Russia.

• The proposal prohibits EU companies and individuals from trading with the port.

• The EU also proposed adding two Kyrgyz banks (Keremet and OJSC Capital Bank of Central Asia) to its sanctions list for providing crypto-asset services to Russia, as well as banks in Laos and Tajikistan, while removing two Chinese banks. If approved, listed banks would be banned from trading with EU individuals and companies.
• The EU document proposes adding 30 individuals and 64 companies to a sanctions list, seeking to freeze their assets and impose travel bans. These include Bashneft, the listed subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft, and eight Russian refineries, the two main ones Rosneft controls – Tuapse and Syzran. The proposal is not yet on the market Rosneft or Lukoilalready hit by U.S. sanctions.

sports

• Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Hraskevich said the helmet he used while training at the Cortina Games in Milan with images of his compatriots killed during the Ukrainian war cannot be used in Olympic competition after being told by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it violated political speech rules.

• Ukrainian Sports Minister Matvey Bidny condemned the IOC’s actions, and Kyiv said the IOC may soon ease restrictions on Russian athletes, allowing them to once again represent their country at future Olympics.
• Bidney told The Associated Press that as the fourth anniversary of the war approaches, any changes would be “irresponsible” and appear to condone the Russian invasion.