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Russia-Ukraine War: List of key-Day events 1,088 | Russia-Ukraine War News


Here are the key developments in 1,088 days of the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Sunday, February 16:

Struggle

  • The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he wanted the special envoy of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, visited the line of the eastern front of his country to inform Trump about the realities in the field in the field .
  • “It's very important for me to see this,” Zelenskyy said at the Munich Security Conference. “I really want to bring all this to President Trump … to show him, tell him.”
  • Russian military advances in December and January and southwest of the city of Pokrovsk, located northwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, have decreased in the last two weeks, said the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) based In the United States.
  • The progress of the deceleration around Pokrovsk may indicate that Russia's military command will prioritize offensive operations against KostiantyNivka, the southernmost point of the Ukraine Front line in Donetsk, in the warmest months later this year, said the ISW .
  • The ISW also said that advances can be decreasing due to russian first -line units degraded by battle and intense operations of Ukrainian drones in the area.
  • Ukraine also recently advanced on Russian forces near Pokrovsk in Ukraine, while Russian troops recently advanced near Toretsk and Valyka Novosilka in the Kursk region of Russia, which is in the hands of Ukrainian forces, Isw said.
  • Belarus has denied the plans to replace and attack Ukraine, after Zelenskyy warned about such a stage at the Munich conference. “We do not represent a threat to anyone, we are not increasing the amount of troops or weapons systems, unlike our neighbors, posts and Baltic, which are focusing on militarization,” said the Secretary of the National Security Council in Belarus, Alexander Wolfovich.

US plans for Ukraine

  • High officials of the Trump administration will begin conversations with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Saudi Arabia in the next few days, reports the political media, citing familiar sources with the plan.
  • But Europe will not have a table on the table for Ukraine peace conversations, Kellogg said in the United States.
  • European leaders hurried to the table for any talk, since Washington announced that a team of senior US officials is planning to meet in Saudi Arabia with counterparts from Moscow and kyiv.
  • The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and the envoy of the Middle East Steve Witkoff will go to Saudi Arabia for conversations, US officials said, without giving details about when the meeting would occur.
  • The NATO Chief, Mark Rutte, said that Europe had to find “good proposals” to ensure peace in Ukraine if you wanted to participate in the conversations led by the United States.
  • European leaders now plan to celebrate a special summit on the conflict in Ukraine in response to Trump's plans.
  • France will organize the summit, wrote Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski, wrote in X, and will attend the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Policy and diplomacy

  • Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the United States Secretary of State, discussed the situation in Ukraine in a call on Saturday, as well as the elimination of “unilateral barriers” to the normalization of relations.
  • During the call, which was initiated by Washington, Lavrov and Rubio agreed to work on the restoration of the “mutually respectful interstate dialogue” in line with the tone established by Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the Russian Foreign Ministry.
  • Speaking in Munich, Zelenskyy also asked for the creation of a European army, arguing that the continent could no longer count on Washington. “We cannot rule out the possibility that the United States can say that no to Europe on issues that threaten it,” he said.
  • The United States has asked European nations what they can contribute in terms of security guarantees for Ukraine, said the president of Finland.
  • Zelenskyy has announced that he blocked an agreement that would have given access to the United States to large amounts of Ukrainian natural resources, since it lacked “safety guarantees” of Washington for kyiv.
  • Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the “credibility” of the United States as an ally depended on the result of the war in Ukraine.
  • The foreign ministers of the group of seven (G7) led by industrialized nations reaffirmed their “unwavering support to Ukraine.” The G7 countries have provided Military and Financial support to kyiv, even making available to Russian state assets of Ukraine frozen in the West.
  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, said that Europe “must assume a more important role in NATO” and work with the United States to “ensure the future of Ukraine” in the midst of “the threat we face from Russia.”
  • Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Zelenskyy Cabinet Chief Andriy Yermak said they discussed kyiv's vision of a path to peace in Ukraine with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
  • Wang told the Munich conference on Friday that China believes that all parties interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict should participate in peace conversations, which underlines the role of Europe.

Military help

  • An initiative led by Czechs to supply large -caliber ammunition has delivered 1.6 million projectiles and will continue, Czech President Petro Pavel said.

Regional developments

  • The ISW reports that Russian cargo ships have continued to evacuate Moscow military assets from the port of Tartous while Russia negotiates its continuous presence in Syria with the new interim government, after the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime, the former former Moscow ally.



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