Ukraine reportedly strikes oil depot in Russia's Pskov Oblast, targets Belgorod with missiles, leaving blackouts ・US reportedly presses allies to block Ukraine from full participation at NATO summit ・Moldova,

European Council president António Costa stops short of setting a date, but says we ‘cannot lose the momentum.’ What we know on day 1,458

The White House has hit back at Volodymyr Zelensky after he said the US was piling undue pressure on Kyiv to end the war. Zelensky said Trump’s insistence that Ukraine should compromise was “not fair” ahead of trilateral talks in Geneva, which ended abruptly on Wednesday after just two hours.

Russian 'mothership' drones prompt Ukraine to weigh passport requirement for SIM card sales * Explosion at Ukrainian military enlistment office declared terrorist

KYIV, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Ukraine imposed sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday, vowing to "increase countermeasures" against Minsk for its wartime assistance to Russia.

A burned, twisted train car from a deadly Russian drone strike is set to arrive in Kyiv as a stark symbol of four years of war.

Investigators call the recruitment a well-organised trafficking ring involving immigration staff and security agencies.

Ukraine’s goal is to make the war futile for Russia by minimizing territorial losses, pushing Russian casualties higher than the numbers Moscow can recruit, and increasing the economic costs such that the war is unsustainable.

Ukraine is probably leveraging a recent block on Russian troops’ access to Starlink, says Institute for the Study of War; Trump says he wants Kyiv deal with Moscow ‘fast’. What we know on day 1,455

More than 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight on Russia's side in the war in Ukraine, according to a Kenyan intelligence report presented to lawmakers this week, five times ‌more than authorities had previously estimated.

In the remote village of Sedanka in Russia's Far East, almost all of its fighting-age men have left to join the Ukraine war.