A drone crashed into a residential building in Kyiv. Photo Reuters / Gleb Garanich.
- The first day of trilateral negotiations involving delegations from Russia, Ukraine, and the USA has concluded in Abu Dhabi. Politico cites sources from Ukraine and the USA, indicating that these negotiations may have more positive prospects than previously thought.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an upcoming prisoner exchange with Russia.
- According to him, more than 1,100 apartment buildings in Kyiv remain without heating.
- As a result of an airstrike in Bataisk (Rostov region, Russia), a warehouse building and parked cars were damaged. Drones were shot down over several cities, including Rostov, Taganrog, and Novoshakhtinsk.
- On Wednesday evening, Russian drones attacked the Sumy region of Ukraine, one of which fell on a car, injuring a 59-year-old driver.
- The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Vadim Filashkin, reported a new shelling of Druzhkovka with cluster munitions, resulting in at least 7 deaths and 15 injuries.
- Five people were injured in Odesa as a result of a nighttime attack, according to local authorities.
- In the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region, four people became victims of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a single day.
- On the night of February 3, Russia again launched a massive strike on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other regions, targeting energy infrastructure facilities.
- In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people were killed and two others were injured as a result of the attacks.
- A Polish Ministry of Defense employee was detained in Warsaw on suspicion of espionage, accused of collaborating with Russian and Belarusian intelligence.
- The Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Kęstutis Budrys, appealed to the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for high-ranking Russian officials accused of genocide due to the bombings of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
- Estonian authorities detained the container ship Baltic Spirit, sailing under the flag of the Bahamas with a Russian crew, near the island of Naissaar in the country’s internal waters; the vessel was en route from Ecuador to St. Petersburg.
