Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,091 | Conflict News

Here are the key developments on the 1,091st day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Wednesday, February 19:

Fighting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck energy infrastructure in the southern region of Odesa, leaving 160,000 residents without heating and power.
The Ukrainian military said Russia launched 167 drones and two missiles during overnight attacks. The air force shot down 106 drones and 56 more did not reach their targets.
Russia said its air defences downed 21 Ukrainian drones in the space of an hour overnight, most over Russia’s western Bryansk region. One drone was also downed over Russian-annexed Crimea.
Kyiv’s forces said they knocked out a North Korean self-propelled howitzer artillery cannon on the eastern front in Ukraine. Kyiv said it was the first time since the start of the conflict with Russia that a North Korean М-1978 Koksan howitzer had been hit by a Ukrainian drone.
Ukraine and Western military experts say up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been deployed in southern Russia’s Kursk region along with their military equipment and alongside Russian forces.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 144 clashes with Russian troops on Tuesday, repelling multiple assaults across different front lines, according to the Ukrainian military, Turkiye’s official Anadolu news agency reports.

Kyiv also said that Russian forces launched two missile strikes and 72 air strikes, and used 1,024 kamikaze drones, along with 4,200 artillery attacks that targeted Ukrainian positions and settlements, AA reports.
In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces said they prevented Russian advances towards Mala Shapkivka and Topoli, while Moscow’s troops launched 16 attacks in Ukraine’s Kupiansk region, with Kyiv’s forces claiming to have repelled 14, as battles continue, Anadolu reports.
Russia said oil flows through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, a major route for supplying Kazakhstan and exporting to the global market, have been reduced by 30 to 40 percent after a Ukrainian drone attack on a pumping station.
The Caspian pipeline, which ships more than 1 percent of daily global oil supplies, stretches over 1,500km (939 miles) and carries crude oil from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oilfield on Russia’s northeastern shores of the Caspian Sea as well as from Russian producers.
Freedom in Russia and the end of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government depends on Ukraine winning the war, former chess world champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said. “There is no freedom of Russia, no end of the Putin regime, without Ukrainian victory,” said Kasparov, 61, who retired from chess in 2005 to focus on political activism, and has lived in exile in New York for the past decade.