War in Ukraine today: latest news, 12 February 2026 (photo)

It has been the 1450  th day of the Ukrainian resistance to the russian military aggression. 

What happened in Ukraine today:

Here is operational information of the General Staff as of 4 pm:   

The enemy does not stop trying to advance deep into the territory of Ukraine. The defense forces are holding back the enemy, causing him significant losses.

On 12 February, there were 60 combat clashes.

The shelling of the border areas of Sumy oblast continues. The settlements of Neskuchne, Kucherivka, Yastrubshchyna, Rohizne and Ryzhivka were affected.

Towards Northern Sloboda and Kursk, the enemy carried out 36 attacks on settlements and positions of Ukrainian units. One clash occurred.

Towards Southern Sloboda, the enemy attacked seven times in the vicinity of the settlements of Vovchansk, Okhrimivka and Kolodiazne. One attempt by the enemy to improve its positions is ongoing.

Towards Kupiansk, the enemy once tried to advance in the vicinity of ​​Pishchane.

Towards Lyman, Ukrainian soldiers repelled two attempts by the invaders to advance near Stavky and Seredne.

Towards Slaviansk, the invaders tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian troops near Sviato-Pokrovske. The fighting continues.

Towards Kramatorsk, there were no enemy offensive actions.

Towards Kostiantynivka, the invaders carried out eight offensive actions near Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Illinivka, Rusyn Yar and Sofiivka. One attack is ongoing.

Towards Pokrovsk, the invaders made 25 attempts to push Ukrainian soldiers from the occupied positions in the vicinity of Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Shevchenko, Kotlyne, Pokrovsk, Molodetske, Novopavlivka, Bilytske, Novopidhorodne, Dachne and Ivanivka. The defense forces are holding back the invaders, 23 attacks were stopped.

Towards Oleksandrivka, the enemy did not carry out offensive actions.

Towards Huliaipole, there were 15 attacks near Huliaipole, Dobropillia, Zaliznychne and Rybne. The enemy carried out air strikes near Kamianka, Verkhnia Tersa, Vozdvizhivka, Barvinivka and Luhivske.

Towards Orikhiv and Kherson, there were no significant changes.

Ukrainian troops are exhausting the invaders along the entire line of combat contact and in the rear.

Recent war events in the east of Ukraine

Kharkiv oblast

Towards Southern Sloboda, russian troops launched seven attacks in the viicnity of Vovchansk, Okhrimivka, and Kolodiazne. As of 4:00 p.m., one combat engagement is ongoing. Towards Kupiansk, the occupiers tried to advance once in the vicinity of ​​Pishchane

There were 124 combat engagements.

Towards Southern Sloboda, the enemy tried to break through the defensive lines of our defenders nine times, in the vicinity of the settlements of Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, and towards the settlements of Hrafske and Okhrimivka.

Towards Kupiansk, there was one enemy attack. Our defenders repelled the enemy’s assault actions in the vicinity of Novoosynove.

Over the past 24 hours, 15 settlements were subjected to enemy attacks.

Three people were killed as a result of shelling; 20 people injured, including two children.

Near the village of Brihadyrivka, Balakliia community, a 63-year-old woman was killed, men aged 59, 49, and 44 were injured; in the village of Zolochiv, 14-year-old and 15-year-old boys were injured; in the town of Barvinkove, women aged 63, 62, 57, 48, 44, 33, 34, 33 and a 27-year-old man were injured; in the town of Lozova, a 55-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman were killed, men aged 49, 41, 59 and women aged 78, 64, 52 were injured.

The enemy actively used various types of weapons:

▪️3 missiles (type is being determined);

▪️8 GABs;

▪️9 Geran-2 UAVs;

▪️1 Lancet type UAV;

▪️2 Molniya type UAV;

▪️5 fpv drones;

▪️15 UAVs (type to be determined).

Civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged and destroyed:

▪️In Bogodukhiv region, a private house and a car were damaged (Zolochiv village);

▪️In Izyum region, a private house (Borova village), 2 cars (Horokhovatka village), an ambulance (Bryhadyrivka village), a shop, power lines, 2 cars (Barvinkove city) were damaged;

▪️In Kharkiv region, a bus (Ruska Lozova village), a house, a farm (Pivdenne village), a private house (Nova Kozacha village) were damaged;

▪️In Lozova region, 4 private houses, 2 garages, a warehouse building (Lozova city) were damaged;

▪️a building was damaged in Chuhuiv district (Kochetok village).

The transit evacuation point in Lozova received 84 people per day. A total of 18,680 people have been registered at the Point since it began operating.

Over the past week, about 2 hectares of farmland, 500 meters of power lines, and 100 meters of railway tracks were inspected in Kharkiv oblast. 373 explosive devices were defused.

One of the deceased members of the “Olympic family” depicted on Vladislav Heraskevych’s helmet at the 2026 Olympics is 19-year-old biathlete Yevhen Malyshev from Okhtyrka, Sumy oblast, who competed for Kharkiv. The athlete was a participant in the 2020 Youth Olympic Games. From the same year, Yevhen served in the National Guard, and in 2022 he was killed in a Russian airstrike.

Donetsk oblast

At around 3:15 a.m., russian forces dropped a guided bomb on Kramatorsk. The strike occurred near a four-story apartment building, causing a fire. Police paramedics drove a car under the balcony of the second floor and, using it as a ladder, removed the baby. Two people were injured in the attack – an 18-year-old boy and a 39-year-old woman. 8 apartment buildings, a store, a pharmacy, a non-residential building and 7 cars were damaged. 

On February 11, there were 1,501 enemy strikes on the front line and residential sector of the region.

9 settlements were under fire: the cities of Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk, Mykolaivka, Sloviansk, the village of Yasnohirka, the villages of Malynivka, Serhiivka, Starodubivka.

94 civilian objects were destroyed, including 72 residential buildings.

The russians struck Kostyantynivka with artillery and an FPV drone – one person was killed, four more civilians were wounded. A civilian car was damaged.

One person was injured in Starodubivka of Mykolaiv community, a private house was damaged.

The enemy attacked Sloviansk 10 times, 8 of them with KAB-250 bombs. 37 private houses, an educational institution, and 5 civilian cars were damaged.

Russian troops dropped a GAB-250 bomb and an FPV drone on Mykolaivka, damaging 2 apartment buildings and 20 private houses, and three cars.

In Druzhkivka, 2 private houses and 2 civilian cars were damaged, in Malynivka – 7 private houses, and in Serhiievka – a civilian truck.

Seven strikes, including drone strikes, were carried out by Russia on Kramatorsk – 2 apartment buildings, an administrative building, a boiler room, and a civilian car were destroyed. In addition, the city was under attack last night – the consequences are being established.

From the front-line Druzhkivka, special police teams “White Angel” together with the State Emergency Service evacuated two families with three children – two 13-year-old girls and a 14-year-old boy. According to the teenagers’ mother, the situation in the city has deteriorated sharply: if in the summer life was still going on, now staying there is a constant danger, and the children themselves insisted on leaving. During the evacuation, a Russian drone with a warhead was spotted above the crew, but the people were safely delivered to a designated place. In Druzhkivka, the forced evacuation of families with children is ongoing, and police officers check addresses daily to make sure that minors have been taken out of the shelling.

Luhansk oblast

The invaders fired mortars four times yesterday at the frontline settlements of Luhansk oblast, used artillery twice, and fired two more times with automatic grenade launchers. The enemy again tried to advance from the direction of Tverdokhlibove. In addition, the invaders attacked nine more times towards Lyman, and twelve times towards Slaviansk.

Investors from the russian federation, who almost two years ago leased coal mining enterprises located in the occupied Luhansk Oblast from the so-called “lpr”, do not know how to get rid of them. A number of them have already decided to preserve. In order to support the work of some mines, the company, which recently promised modernization and an increase in salaries, has once again applied for state support. It expects that the Kremlin will provide money to repay the debt that has accumulated during this time.

Due to the ban on the use of the Internet, the occupiers in Sievierskodonetsk are forcing children to receive education in person. For the past three years, education has been conducted in a mixed form. Nothing has changed in recent months – the temperature in the classrooms has not increased in winter, and the line of combat contact has also remained approximately in the same place as in 2024-2025. The Internet and mobile network remain turned off within the city, which makes it impossible to organize distance learning. Therefore, disregarding the safety and health of children, the so-called “Ministry of Education and Science of the lpr” recognized the educational process in Sievierskodonetsk as normal – without heating and near the front

What is happening now in the north of Ukraine

Kyiv oblast

According to Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, on the night of 12 February russian forces launched a massive attack on Kyiv and the oblast with missiles and drones. In the Brovary district, the attack damaged the production and storage facilities of two enterprises. Debris from downed enemy targets was also found on the territory of two private households.

According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, two people were wounded in the russian terrorist attack in the capital: a 45-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. Both were hospitalised. Damage was also reported at three locations in the Dniprovskyi and Darnytskyi districts.

In the Dniprovskyi district, the facade of a 9-storey residential building and cars parked in the courtyard were damaged. At another address, the remains of an air target fell into the courtyard of a house without causing any damage.

In the Darnytskyi district, the facade of a 16-storey residential building was partially damaged and the windows broken. 

According to the Kyiv City State Administration, following the massive russian attack on 12 February, damage to critical infrastructure left nearly 2,600 buildings without heat. These are high-rise buildings in the Desnianskyi, Dniprovskyi, Pecherskyi, and Solomianskyi districts. As a reminder, 1,100 high-rise buildings in the Desnianskyi and Darnytskyi districts remain without heat after the recent shelling. Due to critical damage to the Darnytska Thermal Power Plant, it is currently impossible to supply heat to these buildings.

DTEK reported that after the russian attack on the night of 12 February, more than 100,000 families in Kyiv were left without electricity. As of 13:28, energy companies had restored power to these homes. The Desnianskyi district is returning to temporary power outage schedules.

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that homes in the capital that were cut off from heat due to russian shelling on 12 February are expected to be reconnected within one to two days. According to him, debris from drones fell on the TPP-5 and TPP-6 heat supply facilities, causing damage to gas distribution and gas compression devices at one of the TPPs. At the other, the water preparation system was damaged. 

Zhytomyr oblast

The Zviahel district received 42 generators from Lithuania, the generators have already been handed over to the communities. According to the Regional State Administration, all 12 communities in the district have been provided with generators. Each community will determine where the help is most needed: in boiler rooms, emergency shelters, schools, kindergartens, or clinics.

On 11 February, at the Culture and Leisure Centre in Malyn, local youth from the ‘Team M’ association, led by community activist Anna Dyadey, raised 68,000 hryvnias for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a charity performance. The money was collected for a vehicle for the 430th separate battalion of unmanned systems.

Sumy oblast

The Regional Military Administration reported that as a result of russian shelling in Sumy oblast on 11 February, one person was killed. In Krasnopillia community, a 60-year-old man was killed in a UAV attack. A 40-year-old man who had been injured on 10 February in a drone strike in Velyka Pysarivka community also sought medical assistance.

Over the course of the day, from the morning of 11 February to the morning of 12 February, russian forces carried out more than 30 attacks on 20 settlements across 13 territorial communities of the oblast. The highest number of attacks was recorded in Sumy and Shostka regions. The enemy used mortars, artillery, FPV drones, UAVs, and guided aerial bombs. Air raid alerts in the oblast lasted for 19 hours and 14 minutes over the day.

Civilian infrastructure was damaged or destroyed:

  • In Konotop community, a civilian infrastructure facility, an apartment building, private residential houses, and non-residential premises were damaged;
  • In Popivka community, a civilian infrastructure facility was damaged;
  • In Velyka Pysarivka community, a shop building was damaged;
  • In Krasnopillia community, a vehicle was damaged;
  • In Seredyna-Buda community, private residential houses and outbuildings were destroyed, and another private house and outbuildings were damaged;
  • In Shostka community, a non-residential building, vehicles, and farming equipment were destroyed;
  • In Esman community, a private residential house was destroyed;
  • In Znob-Novhorodske community, a civilian infrastructure facility was damaged.

Over the day, local authorities, together with units of the State Emergency Service, the National Police, and public organisations, evacuated 10 people from border communities.

According to Liudmyla Biriukova, Head of Velyka Pysarivka community, a humanitarian hub has been opened in one of the villages of Velyka Pysarivka community. The facility is intended for the distribution of humanitarian aid and for work with local residents.

Chernihiv oblast

The National Police of the oblast reported that during the night of 12 February, the russian army attacked Chernihiv oblast by UAVs. As a result, a number of private houses and residents’ vehicles were damaged in Bakhmach community of Nizhyn region.

Oleksandr Seliverstov, Head of Novhorod-Siverskyi Region Military Administration, said that on the evening of 11 February, russian forces attacked Semenivka. An FPV drone struck an apartment building, damaging the façade and windows. According to the Regional Military Administration, a fire broke out in one of the villages of Semenivka community as a result of the attack.

Chernihiv Border Guard Detachment informed that over the course of 11 February, russian forces attacked Novhorod-Siverskyi and Semenivka border communities. The enemy carried out 11 strikes using tube artillery and 13 FPV drone attacks. Semenivka town and six villages came under fire.

Snovsk Mayor Oleksandr Medvediov reported that residents of a border village in Snovsk community, which has been included on the list of settlements subject to mandatory evacuation, are refusing to leave their homes. More than four dozen people remain in the village, which is located within five kilometres of the border. Meanwhile, more than 10 other villages in the community currently have no residents due to the difficult security situation.

Recent events in the central regions of Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk oblast

Mykola Lukashuk, Head of Dnipropetrovsk RMA, reported that during the night, russian forces carried out a massive attack on Dnipro and the oblast, striking by missiles and UAVs.

In Dnipro, 4 people were injured as a result of the attack, including 2 children: an infant and a 4-year-old girl. Infrastructure facilities were damaged. Damage was recorded on the territory of private households, affecting 6 private and summer houses, a garage, an outbuilding and 3 vehicles.

In Mykolaivka community, 2 private houses and 2 vehicles were damaged. The enemy attacked the region by artillery and a drone, targeting the regional centre, Chervonohryhorivka and Pokrovske rural communities. The russian forces struck Rozdory and Vasylkivka communities by UAVs. Fires broke out. A kindergarten and infrastructure facilities were damaged.

The occupiers attacked the regional centre, Marhanets, Pokrovske rural and Myrove communities, by drones and artillery. A 74-year-old man was injured. An administrative building, an apartment building, a cathedral, a lyceum, a kindergarten, 4 private houses, enterprises, an outbuilding, an agricultural company, a power line and a vehicle were damaged.

The russian forces attacked Zelenodolsk and Hrushivka communities by drones, artillery and MLRS. Infrastructure was damaged.

The russian troops struck Verbkivka and Yurivka communities by UAVs. A fire broke out. An enterprise and infrastructure facilities were damaged.

Kirovohrad oblast

In Kirovohrad oblast, explosives experts destroyed a russian drone that had fallen in the yard of a private house. Using a robotic system, specialists remotely examined the UAV and discovered an incendiary mixture — a type of incendiary weapon capable of causing severe burns.

Poltava oblast

Junior Sergeant Yurii Shchuleshchenko from Horishni Plavni was killed in action at the front. The 35-year-old serviceman died in combat with russian forces near Malynivka settlement in Dnipropetrovsk oblast on 5 February.

Latest news from the front of the southern regions of Ukraine

Zaporizhzhia oblast

Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, reported that a 76-year-old woman was injured as a result of an FPV drone attack in Polohy region.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on 11 February, Ukrainian Defence Forces repelled 16 russian attacks in Huliaipole and Orikhiv regions. Combat engagements took place near Huliaipole, Dobropillia, Dorozhnianka, Stepove and in the directions of Zaliznychne and Tsvitkove.

Ivan Fedorov, Head of the RMA, stated that the russian military carried out more than 630 strikes on 35 cities and villages in Zaporizhzhia oblast. In particular, 24 airstrikes targeted Hryhorivka, Veselianka, Yuliivka, Novooleksandrivka, Liubytske, Lisne, Barvinivka, Tavriiske, Huliaipole, Vozdvyzhivka, Charivne, Verkhnia Tersa, Hirske and Zahirne.

Mykolaiv oblast

Based on the information provided by Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, on 11 February, russian FPV drones attacked Kutsurub community 3 times. As a result, a building of a non-operational educational institution was damaged in Dmytrivka village. There were no casualties or injuries reported.

Odesa oblast

Serhii Lysak, Head of Odesa RMA, reported that the russian forces attacked Odesa by strike UAVs. In one of the city’s districts, an infrastructure facility was damaged. One man was injured. Civilian and critical infrastructure facilities were damaged as a result of the attack. In a nine-storey building, the facade and roof were destroyed, and a fire broke out on the upper floor. The fire engulfed pavilions at one of the markets and damaged a supermarket building.

Fire following a russian attack in Odesa. Photo: State Emergency Service.

Kherson oblast

According to Kherson RMA, at approximately 1:30pm, russian forces attacked one of the hospitals in Kherson by a UAV. The enemy dropped explosives from a drone on an 18-year-old man who was repairing the roof. He sustained blast injuries and a concussion.

At around 6:40am, 2 medics were injured as a result of russian shelling of Kherson. At the time of the attack, a 58-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman were at home. They sustained blast injuries, concussions and acute stress reactions.

A resident of Bilozirka whose house was shelled by russian forces the previous night sought medical assistance. The 50-year-old man sustained blast injuries and a concussion. He was hospitalised.

Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the RMA, stated that a resident of Antonivka was killed as a result of russian shelling. In February, a 52-year-old man sustained injuries incompatible with life during an enemy attack.

Latest news for today in the western regions of Ukraine

Volyn oblast

Novovolynsk City Council held a meeting of the district commission on technogenic and environmental safety and emergencies. During its work, the issues of eliminating the consequences of the attack by unmanned aerial vehicles on an energy infrastructure facility and ensuring the stable functioning of life support systems in the city of Novovolynsk and settlements of the district were considered.

Zakarpattia oblast

Uzhhorod City Council held a regular meeting of the Coordination Council for Internally Displaced Persons. During the meeting, participants heard a report on the Council’s work for 2025 and discussed current issues of social protection and support for internally displaced persons.

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast

Since the beginning of the year, 35 farmers in the Carpathian region have attracted about UAH 89.6m in credit funds for business support and development. 19 enterprises have become participants in the Affordable Loans 5-7-9%state program, within the framework of which they received UAH 66.6m.

Lviv oblast

The RMA reported that in January 2026, border guards registered more than 940,000 people and 190,000 vehicles on the Ukrainian-Polish section of the border within Lviv oblast.

Rivne oblast

A batch of powerful generators from one of Ukraine’s mobile operators has arrived in Rivne oblast. The equipment is designed to support the operation of base stations in the event of prolonged power outages.

Ternopil oblast

Two sets of electronic warfare devices were handed over to the soldiers of the 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigade from Ternopil community.

Khmelnytskyi oblast

Khmelnytskyi City Council has allocated financial support for 284 servicemen for their own needs. The total amount of assistance is almost UAH 2.9m.

Chernivtsi oblast

Chernivtsi community has donated an ambulance to a military unit where Chernivtsi residents serve. The vehicle is equipped with everything necessary to stabilize the wounded at the front and get them to the doctors as quickly as possible.

International support of Ukraine in the russian-Ukrainian war (russia’s invasion of Ukraine)

The UK will provide an additional half a billion pounds in urgent assistance to Ukraine’s air defense. The British Ministry of Defense also announced the provision of an additional 1,000 Martlet multi-purpose missiles to Ukraine as a reinforcement of Ukrainian air defense.

France is preparing to transfer a new batch of Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, as well as SCALP anti-ballistic missiles and AASM Hammer guided aerial bombs. The two countries have also signed a document on joint weapons production.

 


 

Materials compiled by Tetyana Pidgorna, Olena Reka, Yana Hushchyna, Tamara Moshkovska, Sofia Ratynska, Ioanna Kryvenko, Helena Albahachiieva, Kristina Maknynia 

Translated by Tetyana Pidgorna, Yana Hushchyna, Alla Litrovnyk, Liudmyla Stadnykova, Ilona Korolevska, Tetiana Moiseienko, Marharyta Koval, Tetiana Kurbatova


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