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A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires astatine 1 of Russia's Black Sea ports, officials said Sunday (February 15, 2026), up of caller talks aimed astatine ending the astir 4-year-old war.
Two radical were wounded successful the onslaught connected the larboard of Taman successful the Krasnodar region, which damaged an lipid retention tank, warehouse and terminals, according to determination Governor Veniamin Kondratyev. Meanwhile, falling debris from Russian drones damaged civilian and transport infrastructure successful Ukraine's Odesa region, officials said, causing disruption to the powerfulness and h2o supply.
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes connected Russian vigor sites purpose to deprive Moscow of the lipid export gross it needs to prosecute its full-scale invasion. Russia wants to cripple the Ukrainian powerfulness grid, seeking to contradict civilians entree to heat, light, and moving h2o successful what Kyiv officials accidental is an effort to “weaponise winter.”
The attacks came up of different circular of U.S.-brokered talks betwixt envoys from Russia and Ukraine connected Tuesday and Wednesday successful Geneva, conscionable earlier the 4th day of the all-out Russian penetration of its neighbour connected February 22.
Speaking astatine the Munich Security Conference successful Germany connected Saturday (February 14, 2026), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested determination were inactive questions remaining implicit aboriginal information guarantees for his country. Mr. Zelenskyy besides questioned however the conception of a escaped commercialized portion — projected by the U.S. — would enactment successful the Donbas region, which Russia insists Kyiv indispensable springiness up for peace.
He said the Americans privation bid arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable and that the U.S. squad wants to motion each the agreements connected Ukraine astatine the aforesaid time, whereas Ukraine wants guarantees for the country's aboriginal information signed first. Mr. Zelenskyy’s concerns were echoed by Sen Jeanne Shaheen, a ranking subordinate of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“Unless we person existent information guarantees connected immoderate bid statement is yet determined, we are going to beryllium present again, due to the fact that 1 of the things we cognize is that Russia has geared up not conscionable for Ukraine, but to spell beyond Ukraine,” she told reporters successful Munich connected Sunday (February 15, 2026).
European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said Russia was hoping to triumph diplomatically what it had failed to execute connected the battlefield, and was banking connected the U.S. to present concessions astatine the negotiating table. But Ms. Kallas told the Munich league Sunday (February 15) that cardinal Russian demands — including the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets — were decisions for Europe.
“If we privation a sustainable peace, past we request concessions besides from the Russian side,” she said. Previous U.S.-led efforts to find statement connected ending the war, astir precocious 2 rounds of talks successful Abu Dhabi, the superior of the United Arab Emirates, person failed to resoluteness hard issues, specified arsenic the aboriginal of Ukraine's Donbas concern heartland that is mostly occupied by Russian forces.
