Russia is preparing a spring offensive in Donetsk, Zelenskyy warns after frontline visit
Ukraine's president toured frontline brigades, awarded soldiers, and promised to address operational shortfalls.
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Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says
With the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities.
ISW: Russia’s command missed every deadline since Kyiv in 2022, now wants Odesa — Ukraine meanwhile gained 90 km² in two weeks
Ukrainian forces liberated more ground than they lost in the last two weeks of February — disrupting, ISW assesses, Russia's entire timetable for a planned Spring-Summer 2026 offensive before it could get off the ground.
With Kharkiv under growing artillery fire, Zelenskyy demands buffer zone on Russian soil
No artillery would reach Ukraine's second-largest city if the zone is deep enough, he says.
Iran hit Abu Dhabi but not the peace talks — Kyiv says the next Ukraine-Russia-US round is still days away
The Ukrainian president says the 5-6 March trilateral is on track — he prefers Geneva, though Austria, the Vatican, or Turkey are also options if Russia wants a neutral venue.
Ukraine will help Gulf states shoot down Iran’s Shaheds — if their leaders push Putin toward a ceasefire
The proposal came hours after Shaheds struck Dubai and a US base in Bahrain — the same weapon Ukraine has intercepted over 57,000 times since 2022.
Even countries with better air defenses can’t stop every Shahed – Ukraine knows how, Zelenskyy says
President calls on Europe to expand domestic air defense production as Iranian-designed threats spread.
The numbers behind Ukraine’s worst winter since the full-scale invasion: 19,000 drones, 14,670 bombs, 738 missiles
Zelenskyy says Russia made no attempt to justify deliberate strikes on civilian critical infrastructure.
Zelenskyy names Abu Dhabi as next talks venue, says ‘leaders decide key issues’ in personalist regimes like Russia
Eight days after a difficult trilateral round in Geneva that yielded progress only on military issues, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said the talks will reconvene in Abu Dhabi in early March — this time with the explicit goal of preparing a summit between heads of state.
Trump tells Zelenskyy he wants war over in a month as trilateral talks scheduled for March
Donald Trump responded to Zelenskyy's hope for an end to the war this year with a far tighter deadline — one month — during a call that three sources described as "very friendly and positive," Axios reports.
UNGA backs Ukraine’s peace resolution with 107 votes, rejects US push to drop territorial integrity
On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, 69 countries voted down Washington's proposal to strip sovereignty and territorial integrity language from the text — only 11 backed the US move.
80% of Ukraine has no defense against Russian ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy says
Each system costs up to $2 billion, with interceptor missiles at $3 million apiece.
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “playing games” with Trump — and names the one thing that would actually hurt Putin
It's not battlefield weapons. It's cutting Moscow's revenues funding Russia's war machine, he told FT.
“Putin has not achieved his goals”: Zelenskyy marks four years of full-scale war with address from underground bunker
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked through the underground bunker on Bankova Street — the same corridors where, four years ago, he called world leaders asking for weapons — and reminded viewers that Putin's army, expecting flowers, was met with lines at military recruitment offices instead.
Zelenskyy calls Russia’s “Oreshnik” deployment in Belarus a “show” meant to scare Europe
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on NATO to treat Russia's intermediate-range "Oreshnik" missile system deployed in Belarus…
Putin has already started World War Three — “the question is how to stop him,” Zelenskyy tells BBC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the BBC in an interview that a ceasefire built on territorial concessions would only buy Russia a two-year pause before it attacks again, and that the only answer is "intense military and economic pressure" to force Moscow to step back.
Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces officially reveal southern “operation” that reclaimed 300+ km² and eight settlements
Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi visited the troops on the Oleksandrivka axis on 16 February, days before Zelenskyy announced the first 300 km² liberated — now the unit running the operation has confirmed the details
Zelenskyy sanctions 225 shadow fleet captains from 11 countries for smuggling Russian oil
Some 188 of the tankers whose captains Ukraine just sanctioned are already on the sanctions lists of seven Western nations — but the people steering them were not, until now.
Ukraine pitches Japan on defense cooperation – starting with the maritime drones that sank a fleet
President offers to share lessons from maritime drones, cyber warfare, and infrastructure defense.
Russia offered Ukraine a one-day ceasefire to hold a national vote. Zelenskyy called it “absurd”
Ukraine says it needs 60 days for a referendum on any peace deal; Russia proposed one.