Here is where things stand on Tuesday, February 24:
Fighting
- A man detonated an explosive device beside a police patrol car in central Moscow’s Savyolovsky railway station square, killing one officer and wounding two others, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on the Telegram messaging platform.
- Russian drone strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia wounded five people including a child, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (DSNS).
- Two people have been killed and three others wounded in the latest drone attacks that hit the southern Odesa region, Ukraine’s emergency services said. Minister for Restoration of Ukraine Oleksii Kuleba said Russia had attacked port infrastructure in Odesa.
- Ukrainian forces “restored control” over 400 sq km (154 sq miles) of territory along a stretch of the southern front line, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskii, said in a rare announcement of a Ukrainian advance against Russian forces in several months.
Politics and diplomacy
- The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Ukraine to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Russia’s February 24, 2022, invasion of the country.
- At the NATO headquarters in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is scheduled to deliver remarks commemorating the anniversary on Tuesday.
- Another round of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine could be held at the end of this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, told Ukrainian media.
- Rebuilding Ukraine’s economy will cost an estimated $588bn over the next decade, the World Bank, United Nations, European Commission and the Ukrainian government said.
Energy
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced that his country’s power grid operator would refuse any Ukrainian requests for emergency supplies until oil flows resume via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia through Ukraine to Central Europe.
- Ukraine’s national power company, Ukrenergo, said that any refusal by Slovakia to extend emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine on demand would have no effect on the country’s power system.
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