Russia-Ukraine conflict: List of key occasions, day 1,465 | Russia-Ukraine conflict News

These are the important thing developments from day 1,465 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.

Here is the place issues stand on Saturday, February 28:

Fighting

• Russia struck port infrastructure in a single day in Ukraine’s southern Odesa area, igniting fires and damaging tools, warehouses and meals containers, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba stated.
• A localised truce has been established close to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to permit repairs to energy traces, Russian information companies report, citing the top of Russia’s state nuclear company.
• Ukraine shot down a drone close to the border with Romania throughout a Russian assault on port infrastructure on the Danube River, Romania’s Ministry of National Defence stated.
• Romania stated it scrambled fighter jets and that the drone was introduced down 100 metres (110 yards) from the Romanian village of Chilia Veche, on the other facet of the Danube River to Ukraine.
• Russian forces have taken management of the village of Biliakivka within the Dnipropetrovsk area of japanese Ukraine, the Russian RIA Novosti state information company reported, citing the Ministry of Defence.
• Ukraine’s navy stated it struck an oil depot within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area in a single day, inflicting a big hearth on the facility.
• Firefighters had been attempting to carry a fireplace at an oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar area below management, native officers stated early Saturday.
• Ukraine is contemplating forming partnerships with allies to construct air defences able to intercepting ballistic missiles and to deal with a important scarcity of munitions for United States-made Patriot programs, the nation’s defence minister stated.
• Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stated 55 Ghanaians had been killed combating in Ukraine, and that some 272 residents of the African nation are believed to have been lured to struggle for Russia in Ukraine since 2022.

Regional safety

• The Swedish navy intercepted a suspected Russian drone off the nation’s south coast whereas a French plane service was docked in Malmo, officers stated.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated it was “absurd” to recommend the drone that was electronically disabled close to a French plane service in Sweden earlier this week was Russian.
• The European Commission stated Croatia is assessing whether or not it could legally import seaborne Russian crude to produce Hungary and Slovakia by its Adria pipeline.
• The transfer by Croatia follows after oil provides by way of the Ukrainian part of the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia – the one European Union international locations nonetheless importing Russian oil – had been halted final month as a consequence of injury Ukraine blamed on a Russian drone strike.
• In a video posted on Facebook, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to grant Hungarian and Slovak inspectors entry to restore and restart the Druzhba pipeline.

• President Zelenskyy stated he had not been supplied nuclear weapons by the United Kingdom or France, however added he would settle for such a proposal “with pleasure”, after Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service accused each international locations of working to supply Kyiv with a nuclear bomb.
• Poland’s parliament accepted a legislation to implement the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) defence procurement programme aimed toward boosting member states’ navy readiness.

Economy

• The International Monetary Fund stated its government board had accepted an $8.1bn, four-year mortgage for Ukraine, anchoring a broader $136.5bn worldwide assist package deal. The World Bank estimates Ukraine will want $588bn for post-war reconstruction.
• Economists say Russia is grappling with heavy state defence spending alongside deepening structural challenges, together with labour shortages and excessive inflation.
• Ukraine’s main steelmaker ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih stated it’s closing one other division as a consequence of a worsening vitality disaster brought on by continued Russian assaults on Ukraine’s energy system.

Peace talks

• Bilateral talks between US and Ukrainian officers in Geneva concluded on Thursday, with Kyiv saying preparations are below means for the subsequent spherical of negotiations aimed toward ending the conflict.
• Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Rustem Umerov, stated on X that discussions had been held in two codecs: separate conferences with the United States and a trilateral session involving the US and Switzerland.
• Umerov stated individuals spoke with President Zelenskyy and had been working to make sure the subsequent three-sided assembly with Russia on a settlement is “as substantive as possible”.

Politics and diplomacy

• Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has begun advising the Ukrainian authorities on financial renewal as Kyiv works to rebuild its vitality sector earlier than subsequent winter.
• Finland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic will skip the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Paralympics in protest in opposition to the inclusion of Russian athletes competing below their very own flag whereas the conflict in Ukraine is ongoing.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated “diplomacy cannot succeed at the moment” with Russia, and that larger emphasis ought to be positioned on defending Ukraine from Moscow’s aggression.