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Here are the main developments of the 1090th day of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in Russia.
Here is the situation of Tuesday, February 18:
Struggle
- The army of Ukraine said that Russia had launched a 147 attacking drone dam against Ukraine overnight. Among this, the Ukrainian Air Force said he had shot 83, while 59 did not reach their targets. Several storage facilities and private residences have been reported damaged.
- The Caspian Pipeline Consortium said that Ukrainian drones hit one of its main oil pipelines in the south of the Kropotkinskaya pumping station in Russia in the Krasnodar region, affecting the supply of neighboring Kazakhstan.
- The Ukraine Safety Service claimed the responsibility of the attack on oil oil and said that Ilin’s Oil Refinery from Moscow in Krasnodar had also been affected, with at least 20 explosions heard in the region.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces had captured the colony of Fyholivka in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine. A second announcement later said that the village of Sverdlikovo in the Kursk region of Russia had been withdrawn from Ukrainian forces.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Saudi Arabia before the planned peace talks between the United States and Russian officials during the war in Ukraine.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russia would be represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and director of foreign policy Yuri Ushakov during meetings with the United States in Riyadh.
- Peskov also said that Russian officials would speak with American returning bonds, negotiating peaceful regulation in the war in Ukraine and the preparation of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President Donald Trump.
- The Kremlin said that all the deployment plans for European peacekeeping troops after kyiv and Moscow have concluded a peace agreement made the question “complex”.
- French president Emmanuel Macron organized an emergency meeting with leaders of key nations of the European Union at the Palais d’Elysee in Paris to discuss the reaction of the EU to Washington Peace talks with Moscow.
- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijarto, told a press conference that the Paris meeting, to discuss the change of policy from the United States to his war against Ukraine, would be an attempt to ” Prevent ”Peace. “Unlike them, we support Donald Trump’s ambitions; Unlike them, we support American-Russian negotiations; Unlike them, we want peace in Ukraine, “said Szijjarto.
- Russia Lavrov has asked why Europe should be invited to join talks on a peace regulation in Ukraine if European politicians want war. He also said that Russia would not even consider territorial concessions to Ukraine during future peace talks.
- The spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sergii Nykyforov, said that the Ukrainian chief would go to Saudi Arabia during a visit “long planned” the day after Russia and American officials.
- The Ukrainian chief also said that he would not recognize any results of the talks in Washington-Moscow in Saudi Arabia who did not imply kyiv.
- Zelenskyy met the sheikh Mohamed Mohamed of United Arab Emirates Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, where Sheikh Mohammed would have committed to support efforts for peaceful resolution in war and continuous initiatives to mitigate ‘Humanitarian impact.
- Zelenskyy is now in Turkiye to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss prisoners’ exchanges between Ukraine and Russia.
