A personal meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may take place within the next three weeks. It is also possible that Donald Trump may join the negotiations.

Ukrainian defence forces repelled the occupiers near Kalynivka and in Ternove, Dnipropetrovsk region. The enemy is advancing in Pokrovsk and Sviato-Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is threatening to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine if oil transit via the Druzhba pipeline is not resumed.

Russian occupation forces are advancing in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region.

At the end of January 2026, the Defense Forces launched an operation in the Huliaipole direction, carrying out counterattacks and assaults.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to strike military targets and equipment belonging to the Russian aggressor in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Ukraine.

On 21 February, police detained two men in the city of Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region, for hooliganism against soldiers ofthe Aidar battalion.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine could be suspended if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not resume oil supplies by Monday, February 23.

Over the past day, 20 February 2026, the city of Kharkiv and 10 settlements in the Kharkiv region were subjected to enemy strikes.

As a result of a night-time drone attack on Odesa, residential buildings, infrastructure, and an educational institution were damaged. One man was injured.