Here are the latest updates as of Monday, February 10:
Fighting
Russian overnight drone attacks on Ukraine, including in the eastern Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions, killed at least four people. Ukrainian officials said a mother and her 10-year-old son were killed in the attacks, which also left tens of thousands without power.
Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force said. Of the drones launched, 116 were shot down or destroyed, and some missiles were intercepted and failed to hit their targets, the Air Force stated.
Russian strikes damaged production facilities belonging to Naftogaz in the Poltava and Sumy regions, the state-owned company’s CEO, Oleksiy Chernyshov, said in a Facebook post. Chernyshov said this was the 20th attack on the company’s infrastructure since the beginning of the year.
Russian forces are trying to advance near the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, hoping to end a months-long offensive to seize the strategically important town, Kyiv’s military said. Moscow’s goal is to take control of the entire Donetsk region. The fall of Pokrovsk would be Russia’s biggest battlefield victory since it captured the eastern city of Avdiivka in early 2024.
Russian forces remain in control of the northern part of Pokrovsk, which had a pre-war population of 60,000, and are also defending in the smaller nearby city of Myrnohrad, Kyiv’s General Staff said. Pokrovsk has been the site of intense fighting since last year.
Weapons
Ukraine will open up exports of its domestically produced weapons, including combat drones, as a way for Kyiv to generate revenue from its wartime technology and raise much-needed funds for the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine will open 10 “export centers” for weapons across Europe in 2026, Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine and France have agreed to launch “large-scale” joint weapons production, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on the Telegram messaging app after hosting French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu in Kyiv.
Fedorov did not specify which weapons would be produced with France or when production would begin.
Politics & Diplomacy
Any agreement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine must take into account Russia’s security guarantees, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia. He noted that these guarantees include refusing NATO countries to deploy any troops to Ukraine.
Russia remains open to working with the US, but holds no hope for economic relations despite Washington’s continued efforts to end the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Russian media outlet TV BRICS.
Suspects in the shooting death of a senior Russian military intelligence officer, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, in Moscow last week have admitted to acting on the orders of Ukraine’s SBU security service, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed.
The FSB also claimed that Polish intelligence services were involved in their recruitment. Neither Ukraine nor Poland commented on the allegations.
India plans to maintain multiple sources of energy supplies and diversify if needed, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, after US President Donald Trump said last week that New Delhi had “committed to stopping direct or indirect” fuel imports from Russia.
Germany has indicted a Ukrainian citizen for allegedly plotting to detonate packages in Europe in connection with Russian intelligence services, German prosecutors said in a statement. The suspect was arrested in Switzerland in May and extradited to Germany in December. Moscow has previously denied involvement in the plot.
Sanctions
The EU has proposed expanding sanctions against Russia to include Georgian and Indonesian ports that handle Russian oil, according to Reuters. This would mark the first time the EU has targeted ports in third countries for doing business with Russia. The proposal would ban EU companies and individuals from transactions with these ports.
The EU has also proposed adding two Kyrgyz banks — Keremet and OJSC Capital Bank of Central Asia — as well as banks in Laos and Tajikistan to its sanctions list for providing crypto-asset services to Russia. At the same time, the EU is removing two c banks from the sanctions list. If approved, banks placed on the list would be banned from transactions with EU individuals and companies.
The EU document proposes adding 30 individuals and 64 companies to the sanctions list, seeking to freeze their assets and impose travel bans. These individuals and companies include Bashneft, a listed subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft, as well as eight Russian refineries, including two large refineries majority-owned by Rosneft — Tuapse and Syzran. The proposal does not include Rosneft or Lukoil on the sanctions list; both are currently subject to US sanctions.
Sports
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said the helmet he wore during Milano-Cortina Olympics training, featuring photos of his compatriots killed in the war in Ukraine, was deemed in violation of rules against political statements by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and could not be used at the Olympics.
Ukraine’s sports minister, Matviy Bidnyi, condemned the IOC’s move, which Kyiv says signals the organization may soon ease restrictions on Russian athletes, allowing them to once again compete for their country in future Olympic Games.
Any change would be “irresponsible” and appear to condone Russia’s invasion, now nearing its four-year anniversary, Bidnyi told The Associated Press.