Attachments
Ukraine conducts limited tactical maneuvers to counter costly Russian infiltrations.
Key events
17 Feb.
Donetsk — Russian drone strikes kill three energy workers in Mykolayivka
19 Feb.
Kharkiv — A Russian drone strike kills three civilians at a warehouse in Malynivka
20 Feb.
Kharkiv — A Russian Lancet drone strike kills two police staff during an evacuation mission near Seredniy Burluk
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied a settlement along the border with Ukraine in the Sumy region and seized a village near Lyman and another near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
- Ukrainian forces reportedly regained control of three settlements north of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region and six others southeast of Pokrovske in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- Russian forces launched at least 21 long-range missile and drone attacks, including in the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk and the region of Kyiv.
- Russian strikes killed at least 17 civilians in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed five civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions, as well as in Crimea.