Below are the main developments on the day of 1087 of Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine.
This is the situation on Saturday 15 February:
Fighting
- Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski The Russian drone said that struck the imprisonment structure that was designed to contain radiation at the Chornobyl nuclear plant, but the situation was stable after extinguishing the fire and the levels of radiation were normal. The IAEA Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the explosion.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia fired 133 drones in attacks via Ukraine all night.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces took control of two settlements on the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine and a village outside the city of Korakov in the region.
- The ministry also stated the seizure of Zelin Paul, Felica Novoselka and Dunshhen – all the cities that the Russian army claimed to have seized last month.
- The Ukraine Army confirmed that the sites were attacked, but it did not confirm its families by Russia.
- Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelinski said that the North Korean forces fighting for Russia against Ukraine suffered 4,000 victims, killing two thirds.
- Zelinski said that the morale of the North Korean forces had been “broken” due to their losses in the battlefield.
- In an interview with the US broadcaster, Zelinski said that Ukraine has a “low opportunity” to survive in Russia’s continuous invasion without military support from the United States.
human rights
- Ukraine obtained the return of eight children who were forcefully transferred to the Russian lands, according to the independent Kiev reports.
- Since the beginning of the war, at least 20,000 children from Ukraine have been transferred to the lands occupied by Russian or Russia itself, according to the Ukrainian database, the children of war.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Vice President JD Vance The Trump administration said “a permanent and lasting peace” for Ukraine and Eastern Europe at its first meeting with Zelinski in Munich. Vans said that the United States does not want a resolution that sees “Eastern Europe in the conflict a few years away from the road.”
- Zelenskyy requested “security guarantees” for Ukraine as part of any future peace deal during his talks with Vans.
- French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his point of view that “Ukraine alone can lead discussions for a strong and lasting peace” with Russia.

- German Defense Secretary Boris Peporius described recent statements about Ukraine by the new administration of the United States as “clumsy” and “error.”
- European Union President Ursula von der Lin warned that forcing Ukraine to a bad peace agreement with Russia that would offer American interests.
- A meeting with German President Frank Walter Steinmere, Secretary -General of NATO Mark Retty and UK Foreign Minister David Lami, Verse said that NATO members must increase their military spending so that the United States can focus more on Asia.
- Hungarian President Victor Urban says he believes the Trump administration will re -contact the Russian economy and energy networks at the end of the war in Ukraine.
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