Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events

Here is the situation on Friday, February 7:

Fighting

In Logachyovka village in Belgorod, a Ukrainian drone attack killed three people, including a minor. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a man, an 18-year-old woman and 14-year-old girl, all passengers, died in the attack.
Ukraine’s military said Kyiv’s forces struck an airfield overnight in Russia’s Krasnodar region, which sits on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, resulting in explosions and a fire. Moscow’s forces use the airfield to house and launch drones to attack Ukraine and maintain aircraft in southern Ukraine, according to the military.
Additionally, according to the military, 56 of the 77 Russian drones that were launched into Ukraine overnight were shot down, despite the fact that 18 of them failed to land on their targets.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Moscow’s air defence systems destroyed 28 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Russian prosecutors said a 52-year-old man was sentenced to 17 years in prison for “high treason”. He was found guilty of spieing on Ukrainian forces’ movements.
Ukraine attempted to counterattack in the Kursk region of western Russia, which is bordered with Ukraine, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Kyiv’s forces were repelled by Russian troops, the ministry said.
Turkiye’s Anadolu news agency cited Russia’s Defence Ministry in reporting that Moscow’s forces retook control of the Kursk villages of Ukanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka, both located about 8km (5 miles) from Russia’s border with Ukraine.

According to the AFP news agency, Ukraine is willing to establish a humanitarian corridor to allow hundreds of Russian civilians living in Kursk-controlled areas to return to their original territories if Moscow submits an official request, citing the presidency of Ukraine.

According to Sebastien Lecornu, the minister of Ukraine’s defenses, France delivered its first shipment of Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Kyiv to aid in its ongoing war with Russia.
Rustem Umerov, the defense minister of Ukraine, claimed the Netherlands had delivered F-16 fighters made by the United States to Ukraine. These, along with the French Mirage jets, will soon begin carrying out combat missions, he said.
Senior lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, according to the Russian state news agency RIA, claimed preparations for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were in “advanced stage.” According to Slutsky, the meeting could take place in February or March.

After Moscow did the same to a UK diplomat in November, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office called Russia’s ambassador to London to request the removal of their accreditation.
Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded to media reports that Russia might impose restrictions on diplomats’ travel within EU member states. Zakharova warned the bloc that Russia would react if it put restrictions on their diplomats.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova said she had a “thorough discussion” with Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, in their first meeting since Kellogg’s appointment.

Source: Aljazeera