Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,077

Here is the situation on Wednesday, February 5:
Fighting
- Five people, including a teenager, were killed and at least 55 injured by a Russian strike in Izyum city in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
- In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling claimed the lives of two people. One person was killed in Dnipro and one more in Kherson, according to the Dnipropetrovsk region’s prosecutor.
- A Ukrainian drone attack on a school bus in the Vasylivka district of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia region injured six people, five of whom are children. Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also claimed that organizations working in international aid wanted to cover up the situation.
- Kyiv’s military said it shot down 37 of 65 Russian drones launched at Ukraine overnight. The attack resulted in damage to businesses, a railway depot and houses.
- In a raid on a Russian military command post in Kursk, the Ukrainian military also claimed responsibility for the deaths of “substantial” numbers of Russian soldiers. “The facility sustained significant damage”, the military’s statement detailed.
- Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned of potential nuclear accidents in Ukraine as a result of a plant-to-plant attack or power supply failures.
Humanitarian efforts
- Kyiv’s Coordination Centre for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported a record surge in queries to the “I want to find” hotline , from relatives of those serving Moscow’s army. The centre said it received 8, 548 requests last month.
Politics and diplomacy
- United States President Donald Trump said the Russia-Ukraine war “would’ve never happened” if he were in power. Trump added that the US is dealing “very successfully” with Russia and Ukraine.
- Trump’s suggestion to Ukraine that it should provide rare earths in exchange for aid showed that the US is no longer willing to give Kyiv free aid, according to a Russian spokesman.
- Germany’s top general, Carsten Breuer, warned that Russia could test NATO’s defence readiness and attack a European country in the next four years. “It’s extremely serious”, he said, adding that as a military man, “when the analysts say four to seven years, then I assume four years”.
- Peskov said that “every European” would be impacted by the European Union’s efforts to increase defense spending because they were detrimental to the country’s economic situation.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated to reporters that his team was working with National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Keith Kellogg, the top official in Washington, to arrange a US delegation’s visit to Kyiv. He added that US companies could invest in Ukraine to give US citizens rare earths in exchange for aid.
- In addition to allowing Ukraine to join NATO, Zelenskyy also pressed for the use of nuclear weapons.
- He stated that there have been 390,000 injuries and 45,100 deaths in the Ukrainian war so far. As per his estimates, 350, 000 Russians were killed during the period while between 600, 000 and 700, 000 were injured, as well as there were “many” missing in action.
- If it was necessary to “bring peace to Ukraine without losing people,” Zelenskyy said he would be willing to meet with Vladimir Putin. However, he said Europe would need to be present at the table.
- A special tribunal, which would be able to hold Russian political and military leaders accountable, was established by the EU in a statement.
Source: Aljazeera
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