[Korrespondent] 23.54 Negotiations in the political group in Geneva have "stuck" due to the positions presented by Russia's new chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, Axios journalist Barak Ravid reported, citing sources.
22.50 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed his team to raise the issue of holding a personal meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Geneva to discuss territorial issues.
22.22 The people of Ukraine will reject a peace agreement in a referendum if it involves the "transfer" of Donbas to Russia. And they will likely support freezing the current front line. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Emotionally, people will never forgive this. Never. They will not forgive... me, they will not forgive (the USA - ed.)," the head of state said, adding that Ukrainians "cannot understand" why they are being asked to give up these territories.
"This is a part of our country, all these citizens, the flag, the land," the head of state emphasized.
If the agreement simply freezes the current front line in Donbas, as is planned in the other two regions where fighting is taking place, Zelensky believes the people of Ukraine will accept it.
22.05 Russian forces launched a drone strike on Zaporizhia. Residential buildings were damaged. Initially, one woman was reported injured, but it was later learned that she had died from her injuries.
Six people are currently known to have been injured as a result of the Russian strike. Two children, including two children, required medical attention.
21.25 Ukraine is serious about ending the war, while Russia carried out massive shelling even on the day of the talks in Geneva. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"The delegation will report today - after the first round of talks in Geneva. The guys should definitely ask questions about these strikes - questions primarily to the American side, which suggested both us and Russia to refrain from strikes. Ukraine is ready. We do not need war," the head of state said.
Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine is not interested in continuing the war and is acting "mirror-like", defending its state and independence.
The President added that the key question remains for Russia - whether it is ready for real diplomacy and peace, and whether there will be consequences for continuing missile and drone attacks.
21.00 Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck hundreds of important Russian military and energy facilities deep inside the Russian Federation and in temporarily occupied territories since the beginning of 2026.
In the first 48 days of the year alone, Ukrainian drones attacked over 240 targets, including oil and fuel and defense infrastructure enterprises, energy facilities, airfields, air defense systems, and radar stations.
20.43 Russia is deliberately attacking American enterprises on the territory of Ukraine, in particular the Boeing office in Kyiv, the Flex plant in Mukachevo, and the Bunge enterprise in Dnipro. This was reported by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andriy Sybiga.
"Russia is attacking not only the Ukrainian people, but also the American taxpayer. These are attacks on the American economy," Sibiga noted.
According to the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, 47% of American companies were affected by Russian strikes, 57% had employees injured, and 38% had employees killed.
20.24 The first day of trilateral negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine, the US and Russia ended in Geneva.
"After the joint part, work continued in groups by direction. Discussions focused on practical issues and the mechanics of possible solutions. As of today, both the political and military blocs have completed their work," said Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov.
The results of the first day of talks in Geneva will be reported to the President of Ukraine today. Tomorrow morning, the political and military groups will continue their work.
19.11 The United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany sent their representatives to the third round of talks between Ukraine, the United States and Russia in Geneva. This was reported by the newspaper La Repubblica .
Russian media claim that the talks in Geneva are proceeding "in at least five directions."
18.52 The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports on the high effectiveness of measures to block unregistered Starlink satellite Internet terminals. At the same time, Russian analogues are unable to provide the necessary quality of communication. The GUR reported this on its Facebook page.
18.44 On Wednesday , electricity outage schedules will be in effect again in all regions of Ukraine . This was reported by Ukrenergo. The reason for the permanent restrictions is the consequences of regular Russian missile and drone attacks on energy facilities.
18.16 As part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 2,000 children have already been returned to Ukraine . This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
18.03 In Volyn, two servicemen from one of the district CCCs helped men of mobilization age resolve issues related to conscription. $1,500 for a search session in the Oberig system, $2,500 for a smooth update of their credentials.
Both suspects were detained. They were both declared under suspicion. For extortion and receiving illegal benefits from military personnel, the CCK can face up to 10 years in prison.
17.58 Two Russian servicemen surrendered in the North-Slobozhansk direction, and then called on their colleagues over a loudspeaker to also lay down their arms. The 158th separate mechanized brigade reported this on its Facebook page.
17.49 In Kyiv, heat was restored to 2,600 houses that were left without heat supply as a result of the attack by Russian invaders on February 12. This was announced by Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.
17.49 The European Union's attempt to impose sanctions on foreign ports and banks that Russia uses to sell oil in circumvention of restrictions has faced resistance from some member states. This could significantly weaken the new sanctions package, Bloomberg reports.
As noted, a number of countries have expressed reservations about proposals to impose restrictions on ports in Georgia and Indonesia. In particular, Italy and Hungary opposed sanctions on the port of Kulevi in ​​Georgia, and Greece and Malta opposed sanctions on one of the ports in Indonesia.
17:40 The Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted a video of air defense combat work on its Facebook page.
17.21 As a result of Russian shelling, critical infrastructure in the Kherson community was damaged, leading to a power outage in part of the city.
Currently, many household consumers and life support facilities in the Dnipro district remain without electricity. Also, water supply disruptions are possible in the KhBK area and in the central part of Kherson in the evening.
17.03 Special Forces of the SBU's Alpha Special Operations Center carried out precise strikes on key elements of military infrastructure in the Russian rear. FP-2 drones with 105 kg warheads were used.
16.33 Since the beginning of the current day and as of 16:00, 53 combat clashes have occurred on the front, which is significantly less than yesterday's figure. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational summary.
The enemy is most active in the Hulyaipil direction, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 16 attacks.
15.20 The third round of talks in a trilateral format – Ukraine, the United States, Russia – has begun in Geneva, Switzerland. This was reported by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov on Telegram. According to him, security and humanitarian issues are on the agenda.
14.39 During the day, Russian troops attacked one of the hospitals in Kherson with drones, dropping explosives on a 46-year-old nurse. She received an explosive and closed head injury. This was reported by the Kherson OVA on February 17. It is also noted that at noon a 64-year-old man was hit by enemy fire. He was diagnosed with an explosive injury and shrapnel wounds to the leg.
14.33 Drones struck the Metafrax Chemicals chemical plant in the city of Gubakha, Perm Territory. This was reported by the ASTRA Telegram channel.
According to local residents, the enterprise was hit by at least four drone strikes, after which a fire broke out. Workers were sent to a bomb shelter.
14.28 Latvia is allocating 10 million euros as part of the PURL initiative , which involves the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. This was announced by Latvian Prime Minister Evika SilinÄ— on the social network X.
14.07 On Tuesday night, Ukrainian military personnel hit a Ka-27 helicopter and three enemy drone control points in the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) of Ukraine and on the territory of the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
13.45 Ukraine is systematically scaling up the use of ground robotic complexes on the battlefield. These are no longer isolated cases, but the daily practice of units. This was reported by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov. According to him, in January alone, more than 7,000 missions were carried out using NRCs. The vast majority are logistical tasks on the front line. These are thousands of operations that were previously carried out by the military under fire.
13.33 On Tuesday night, Ukrainian military personnel struck the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
A communications hub, a logistics facility, and enemy concentration areas on the TOT were also hit.
13.08 Law enforcement officers detained a Russian agent within 24 hours who committed a terrorist attack in Odessa on the morning of February 16 this year. The SBU reported this. The attacker made a homemade bomb and placed it under the bottom of an SUV that was parked near the entrance of an apartment building.
12.59 The city of Sumy and the territory of the Sumy community came under a massive attack by Russian drones. The civilian infrastructure of the regional center was damaged, there are injuries, the head of the Sumy OVA, Oleg Hrygorov, reported on Telegram.
12.53 The Ministry of Defense explained the changes to the Regulations on Military Service, introduced by presidential decree regarding 60+ contracts.
Thus, volunteers aged 60 and over during martial law can sign a contract for military service. The term of such a contract is 1 year.
To be accepted for contract service, volunteers must submit appropriate applications and letters from military unit commanders to the CCC at their place of residence or stay.
Whereas, if a volunteer is accepted into military service under a contract as an officer, a letter from the commander of the military unit for concluding a contract is provided only after the candidate is approved by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A serviceman may receive another rank in a shortened period of time if:
serves in a combat unit that participates in military operations (the list of such units is determined by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine);
serves in a military unit that does not belong to the combat force, and for at least three months has performed or is performing combat (special) tasks in combat units involved in conducting military operations;
during martial law, performed combat (special) tasks in combat units involved in conducting military operations, and was recognized by military medical commissions as unfit for military service due to health or as fit for military service in military support units, TCK and SP, VVNIZ, training centers, medical units, logistics, communications, operational support, security units, as a result of illnesses, wounds (injuries, contusions, mutilations) received during the defense of the Fatherland and was subsequently transferred to other military units, or returned from a business trip to his military unit.
12.41 Combat flights on F-16 fighters are performed by Ukrainian pilots, and information about foreign pilots is only rumors . Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this on Tuesday, February 17, responding to information from a French publication about the alleged participation of foreigners in protecting the skies of Ukraine.
12.36 Three pro-Kremlin agitators who justified Russian war crimes and called for the capture of all of Ukraine have been detained, the SBU reported.
12.00 Three employees of the Slavyanska TPP were killed in a Russian drone attack on their car on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Energy reported . The enemy attacked the car of the energy workers in the city of Mykolaivka, Kramatorsk district.
11.58 Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces successfully struck enemy rear and operational infrastructure facilities with FP-2 drones in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. This is stated in a message from the special forces on Telegram.
11.42 As a result of another massive missile and drone attack by the Russians, there are problems with energy supply in five regions . This was reported by Ukrenergo. Emergency restoration work at energy facilities has already begun wherever the security situation allows.
11.21 Counterintelligence officers detained a Russian FSB agent who was coordinating strikes on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. The SBU reported this. An underground hideout was discovered in the detainee's home, which he had secretly set up to wait for the Russians in the event of fighting on the streets of the city.
10.48 On Tuesday night, 12 regions of Ukraine came under attack by Russian aggressors . This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky in Telegram. The Russian strike was specifically calculated to cause as much damage as possible to the energy sector, the head of state noted.
10.35 In Chernihiv region, last night and this morning, Russian military forces struck transport infrastructure and a gymnasium. This was reported by the head of the Chernihiv OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, on February 17. According to him, late last night, an FPV drone hit a gymnasium in Semenivka. The facade was damaged, the windows were broken. Chaus noted that for security reasons, gymnasium students are on "distance learning", like the rest of the students in the 20-kilometer zone.
10.21 On Tuesday night, Russian aggressors launched 29 missiles of various types and 396 drones at Ukraine. Air defense and electronic warfare units intercepted/suppressed most of the enemy targets. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, it was possible to destroy all 25 cruise missiles that were used by the invaders.
9.40 As a result of Russian drone strikes in the Sumy region on the night of February 17, one person was killed and six were injured, including two children. This was reported by the Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office. A 68-year-old woman was killed. Her family - a 42-year-old son, a 40-year-old daughter-in-law and their two sons, aged 7 and 15, were injured. In a neighboring house, a 79-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man were injured.
8.42 There were 201 combat clashes on the front in 24 hours, with the largest number of battles in the Pokrov and Hulyaipil directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on February 17.
8.19 In the Zhashkiv territorial community of Cherkasy region, two residential buildings were damaged as a result of the fall of Russian drone debris on the night of February 17. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Ihor Taburets.
7.50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed and wounded 890 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours, the total enemy losses in the war amounted to 1,255,340 people. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on February 17.
7.23 Soldiers of the Steel Frontier Brigade hit a tank, two antennas, a car and a drone of the Russian occupiers in the Kursk and Severno-Slobozhansk directions. The State Border Service of Ukraine reported this by publishing a video . The combat mission was carried out by drone operators of the Askold reconnaissance unit.
05.29 On the night of Tuesday, February 17, a number of facilities in Russia were attacked by drones, including the Ilya oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory. As a result of the hit, a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the refinery. In the Krasnodar Territory, alarm sirens were turned on in Sochi, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk and Slavyansk-on-Kuban. At the same time, drone attacks took place in Tatarstan.
05.03 On the night of February 17, Russian occupation forces struck the Dnipropetrovsk region. It was especially loud in Dnipro, which was under a combined attack by the Russian Federation. First, the enemy used Shahed suicide drones , and later launched missile strikes. It became known about a fire in one of the districts of the city, and an administrative building and several cars were also damaged as a result of the shelling. According to preliminary information from the head of the OVA, there were no casualties.
03.34 On the night of Tuesday, February 17, during the attack on Odessa, a fire broke out on the upper floors of a residential building in one of the city's districts. In another, a shop and a service station were damaged. Currently, two victims are known to be receiving medical care, the head of the Odessa OVA Serhiy Lysak said.
03.01 On the night of Tuesday, February 17, explosions were heard in a number of Ukrainian cities - Odessa, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia and Okhtyrka - during an air raid alert caused by an attack by Russian strike drones.
02.27 In Vyborg, Russia, where key infrastructure of the Baltic Fleet is located, sirens were heard on the evening of Monday, February 16, after which part of the city was left without power.
01.29 On the night of Tuesday, February 17, a series of explosions were recorded in various areas of temporarily occupied Crimea. According to information from local publics and monitoring resources, these are drone attacks, missile attacks, and actions of the Russian air defense system.
00.30 On the evening of Monday, February 16, a powerful explosion occurred in Odessa, after which part of the city was left without water and electricity. Local Telegram channels noted that the explosion occurred before the announcement of the air raid alert; only after the incident did sirens begin to sound in the city.