War

Journalists with the popular German publication Bild made a report from Bakhmut, while being under Russian fire. The report was published on Sunday, February 12, Ukrinform saw. People, including hundreds of children, who still remain in the front line city, could be bombed at any second, according to journalists. "When you arrive in Bakhmut, you see this absurd, even crazy thing about the situation in the city: although people can be shot and killed at any time and in any place, thousands remain in the area," says the author, who spoke with many inhabitants. Read also: Enemy attack aircraft downed…

In the temporarily captured Melitopol, judges brought from the Russian Federation tried a woman on charges of making a donation to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Melitopol Mayor in exile Ivan Fedorov spoke of this on the air of the national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "Last week, the occupiers began not only to take prisoners, but also to stage an actual trial in the temporarily occupied Melitopol. They brought some judges from the Russian Federation there and they began to sentence our residents to prison terms. For example, a local resident donated to the Ukrainian Army, they found her, saw…

In Great Britain, servicemen with the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being trained to apply general principles of first aid during combat operations in an urban setting. That’s according to the Chief of Staff, Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, Ukrinform reports. The course is part of the basic combined military training under the leadership of the instructors with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry as part of Operation UNIFIER - UK. Read also: Ukrainian tankers to begin training on Leopard 2 in Germany next week - Spiegel "Servicemen with the Canadian Armed Forces…

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk emphasizes that the Russian invaders are deliberately and purposefully draining the Kakhovka Reservoir. That’s according to the Vice PM’s Telegram posting, Ukrinform reports. "An environmental war. The occupiers are draining the Kakhovka Reservoir. A threat to the environment, water supply, and agriculture of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions," she said. According to Vereshchuk, the invaders are consciously and purposefully committing acts of ecocide in the region, including the temporarily occupied territories. "They will not be able to hold the captured territories. Maybe they started to realize this.…

Russian companies have begun to open representative offices in the temporarily occupied areas of Luhansk region. "Companies from Russia are opening their representative offices in occupied Luhansk region and quickly absorb local competitors. In particular, the so-called "state bank of the LPR" for some reason has decided to join one of the Russian ones. Together with all the customers whom no one asked for," the Luhansk Regional Military Administration wrote on Telegram. The regional administration emphasized that "it's now the turn of mobile network companies as well. The mobile network operators continue to provide services, but the Russian government has…

The Russian military has likely exhausted its capabilities in Ukraine and appears to have been unable to prepare its mobilized personnel for a successful offensive. The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank said this in its latest Russian offensive campaign assessment, Ukrinform reports. "All the formations so far observed [in Ukraine] were rendered combat-ineffective in earlier phases of the war and have very likely been reconstituted with mobilized personnel. The Russian military appears to have been unable to prepare its mobilized personnel to conduct effective mechanized offensive operations in the short period of time since their call-ups,"…

Ukrainian forces have shot down five Russian unmanned aerial vehicles in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. That's according to the RBC-Ukraine news outlet, which refers to Ukraine's East Air Command. According to the report, the enemy has again attacked critical infrastructure. "As a result of the work of air defenses, four Shaheds were destroyed in the Zaporizhzhia region, and an Orlan-10 UAV was taken down in the Donetsk region," the East Air Command said. On February 10, Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine's critical infrastructure in several cities. Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 20 Shahed-136/131 attack drones.

On Saturday, the enemy attacked Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery three times. Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Mykola Lukashuk, wrote this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Today, the strength of the Nikopol district was once again tested: the enemy shelled three communities of the district – Marhanets, Myrove and Nikopol - from the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region," the post reads. Read also: Russians shell Sumy region’s Vovkivka with barrel artillery No casualties were reported. In other districts of the region, the situation was relatively calm. As Ukrinform reported, an air raid alert was declared in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia…

Despite significant losses, the enemy is attempting to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its latest update on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “During the day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces launched 16 strikes on the areas of concentration of occupiers’ personnel and military equipment, as well as 2 strikes on the positions of their anti-aircraft missile systems. In addition, our defenders shot down a Su-25 aircraft and an Orlan UAV. Units of the rocket troops and artillery struck 4 areas of concentration of manpower…

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi in a phone call with Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley shared his concern over Russia's use of naval unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), which poses a threat to the civilian maritime shipping in the Black Sea. “I had a phone call with General Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. I informed my colleague about Russia’s latest missile attack, emphasized the importance of air defense means, thanked for providing them. I shared my concern about Russia’s use of naval USVs, which poses a threat…