Published On 12 Feb 202512 Feb 2025
Here is the situation on Wednesday, February 12:
Fighting
- At least one civilian was killed and four others injured in a pre-dawn Russian missile salvo on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The attack also sparked several fires in the city of three million, Ukrainian officials said.
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Ukrainian forces launched a drone attack on the city of Enerhodar near the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, the Moscow-installed regioanl governor said. The drones hit a car park roughly 300 metres (0.2 miles) from one of the plant’s reactors, Yevgeny Balitsky wrote on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian drone attack damaged an industrial facility in the Saratov region of Russia, regional Governor Roman Busargin said.
- A Ukrainian Security and Defence Council official, Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko, said the attack on Saratov targeted an oil refinery that supplied Russian forces with fuel. No casualties were reported.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence said air defence units intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, out of which 18 were destroyed in the Saratov region.
- The Russian military said its forces have taken control of the Yesenove settlement in eastern Ukraine.
- Kyiv said Russia launched 124 drones and 19 missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack. According to the Ukrainian military, 57 drones were shot down while 66 failed to reach their targets.
- Natural gas production facilities were hit and damaged by Russian attacks in central Ukraine’s Poltava region, the country’s state-owned oil and gas firm Naftogaz said. Ukraine’s Minister of Energy German Galushchenko announced power restrictions due to these attacks, which did not result in casualties.
- Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported that two men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms after they were convicted of aiding Ukraine’s Army. A military court in western Kirov sentenced one of the men to 21 years in prison for setting fire to three electrical railroad structures. In a separate case, a 22-year-old was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason.
- Poland’s military said a Russian aircraft violated Polish airspace over its territorial waters. The Russian Sukhoi 24MR tactical bomber aircraft reportedly flew 6.5km (4 miles) into Polish airspace and stayed for more than a minute. The Operational Command of the Russian Armed Forces said the incident occurred due to a navigation system failure.
- Russian bomb disposal experts from the Ministry of Emergency Situations defused a French-made SCALP cruise missile in the Kursk region, the ministry confirmed.
