Here are the latest updates as of Tuesday, February 11:
Fighting
Russian strikes killed four people in the city of Bohodukhiv, west of Kharkiv, early on Tuesday, including three children, Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app.
“Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl were killed in the enemy attack,” Syniehubov said, along with a 34-year-old man. He added that a 74-year-old woman was also injured.
The strikes on energy infrastructure have left the Lozova community in the Kharkiv region without power, local official Serhiy Zelenskyy said. Syniehubov later declared an energy emergency in the region, citing “ongoing enemy shelling.”
A Russian missile attack killed a mother and her 11-year-old daughter and injured 16 other people, the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office said in a Facebook post.
Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied town of Vasylivka in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, killing five people, Nataliya Romanichenko, a Moscow-installed local official, said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Ukrainian forces struck a funeral procession in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region town of Skelky, killing a priest, TASS reported, citing Russian officials. Russian officials widely condemned the attack.
Ukrainian strikes have caused power outages in parts of Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and cut off heating in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia town of Enerhodar, Russian-installed officials said, according to TASS.
One of two external power lines supplying the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was cut due to a Ukrainian attack, the plant’s Russian-installed management said on Tuesday.
A Ukrainian drone struck a truck in the Shebekinsky district of Russia’s Belgorod region, killing a man, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said.
Russian air defense systems shot down three guided aerial bombs and 72 Ukrainian drones over the course of a day, according to TASS.
Military Aid
Twenty-one NATO allies and two partner nations have committed to purchasing more than $4.5 billion worth of US weapons through the Priority Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said during an online briefing. Whitaker said he expects more countries to announce commitments to purchase weapons for Kyiv at a defense ministerial meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
The Ukrainian military has received an additional 4.5 billion hryvnia ($104.5 million) in funding over the past month to order drones and electronic warfare systems, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Politics & Diplomacy
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, with the presidency saying Ramaphosa expressed South Africa’s support for efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin also confirmed the two leaders discussed the war.
France has not yet formally renewed ties with Russia, but Moscow has “noted Mr. Macron’s statements about resuming relations with Russia,” referring to French President Emmanuel Macron, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “We are impressed by such statements,” Peskov added.
Russia’s communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it would further restrict the use of the Telegram platform in the country. The agency said the messaging app “does not comply” with Russian law, “personal data is not protected,” and there are “no effective measures to combat fraud, as well as the use of the app for criminal and terrorist purposes.”
Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, a Russian native, has defended the app, which is widely used in both Ukraine and Russia, saying Telegram is committed to protecting free speech and user privacy “no matter what pressure it faces.”
Sanctions
The management of the German PCK Schwedt oil refinery, majority-owned by Russia’s Rosneft, has issued an “urgent appeal” to Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Katherina Reiche, warning that the threat of US sanctions could jeopardize fuel supplies to Berlin and the surrounding region. Berlin had previously secured a sanctions exemption for the refinery, but that exemption expires on April 29.