Published On 12 Feb 202612 Feb 2026
Here is where things stand on Thursday, February 12:
Fighting
- Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under Russian missile attack early on Thursday morning, the country’s military administration said, with witnesses reporting the sound of explosions. There were no initial reports of casualties and the extent of damage from the attack was not known.
- Russian attacks killed four people and injured three in the Synelnykove area of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, regional military administration chief Oleksandr Hanzha said on the Telegram messaging app.
- Those killed in the Synelnykove area included an older couple together with their 45-year-old son, Hanzha added.
- A woman was killed in a Russian drone attack on an ambulance that was carrying five people, including medical workers and civilians, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, police in the region reported on Telegram.
- The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, said that Ukrainian forces shot down two Russian Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles that were flying towards the western Ukrainian city. Sadovyi said that no information was initially available about whether any damage or injuries had been caused.
- Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, on Wednesday night, causing a fire to break out, Ukraine’s military said in a post on Facebook.
- Ukrainian “troops are holding Zaliznychne” in Ukraine’s front line Zaporizhia region, despite Russian claims to have occupied the settlement, Ukraine’s military spokesperson in southern Ukraine, Vladyslav Voloshyn, told the country’s Ukrinform news agency.
- Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region killed a civilian and injured at least seven others, local officials said, according to Russia’s TASS state news agency.
- Ukrainian attacks also damaged water infrastructure, causing outages, in several villages in the Borisovsky and Rakityansky districts of Belgorod, which is located near Russia’s border with Ukraine, the region’s water utility said on Telegram.
- An employee from Russia’s Miratorg agricultural holding company was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Klimovsky district of Russia’s Bryansk, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said, according to TASS.
- Ukrainian forces killed a woman and injured five people in attacks on Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine’s Kherson, a Russian-appointed official in the region, Volodymyr Saldo, said on Telegram.