LONDON — Russia launched nearly 300 drones and 50 missiles at Ukraine in a single day, killing one individual and injuring a minimum of eight others, together with a toddler, in accordance with Kyiv.
“The principle goal of the assault was the vitality sector,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media. “Abnormal residential buildings had been additionally broken, and there’s injury to the railway. Moscow continues to put money into strikes greater than in diplomacy.”
Firefighters put out a fireplace after a drone hit a residential constructing throughout a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.
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The strikes had been focused partly at Kyiv and the encircling area, together with the Boryspil district, the place a church was broken, Zelenskyy mentioned. The Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and Sumy areas had been additionally focused, the president mentioned. Ukraine’s air drive mentioned it efficiently stopped 274 of the 297 drones and 43 of the 50 missiles that Moscow launched.
The in a single day assault introduced the overall Russian launches within the final week to greater than 1,300 assault drones, over 1,400 guided aerial bombs and 96 missiles of varied sorts, together with dozens of ballistic ones, Zelenskyy mentioned.
“Russia is not going to cease. This terror is not going to cease itself,” Yulia Svyrydenko, the Ukrainian prime minister, said on social media. “We encourage our companions to translate resolve into motion and take the mandatory steps to finish the vitality revenues that proceed to finance Russia’s aggression.”
The Russian protection ministry additionally reported destruction of 86 drone assaults over Russian areas in a single day. Two individuals, together with a 3-year-old youngster, had been injured in a drone assault on a automobile within the Belgorod area, Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned.
A Ukrainian rescuer stands subsequent to a closely broken home following an air assault in Sofiivska Borshchagivka, Kyiv area on Feb. 22, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The in a single day assaults got here as U.S. President Donald Trump’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, mentioned in an interview with FOX News Channel’s “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday that Ukraine and Russia might maintain a brand new spherical of peace talks throughout the subsequent three weeks.
Witkoff additionally steered that the following stage might contain organizing a summit with the participation of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and, presumably, the US.
