Here are the key developments on the 1,075th day of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Monday, February 3:
Fighting
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said two men were charged in connection with the killing of an army draft officer in the central poltava region. It is alleged that one of the sisters was being driven to a military training center when he called an acquaintance who arrived at the scene and shot the officer.
Kyiv’s police said one man was wounded in an explosion of an “unidentified object” near a ukrainian military recruitment center in Pavlohrad. DNIPROPETROVSK REGIONAL Police said an investigation is under way.
State-Run News Agency Tass Reported That Russia’s Supreme Court Refused to Consider Prominent Nationalist and Former Militia Commander Igor Girkin’s Appeal Against His Four-Year Prison Sentence After Being Convicted of Inciting Extremism.
Flights were suspended at several airports in the Southern Russian Region of Astrakhan after a falling drone from an overnight ukrainian region sparked a fire, Governor Igor Babushkin said. No casualties were reported.
Russia illegally deported at least 20,000 ukrainian children to occupied crimea and russia since 2022 under the guide of evacuation and rehabilitation programs, Ukraine’s Presidential Adviser on Children’s Issues, Daria Herasymk, said. Ukraine was able to repatriate 1,189 children with support from humanitarian organizations and allies, she also said.
Herasymkuk also alleded that moscow violated the geneva convention with its attempts to mobilise ukrainian counterage boys into the russian military. The institute for the study of war has said that russia has used “rehabilitation” and “evacuation” camps in crimea to indoctrinate and militarise ukrainian children.
Politics & Diplomacy
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that not inviting moscow to the auschwitz liberation events was “strange” and “shameful”. Putin also said the matter could have been handled more subtly and that the relatives of Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp could have been invited if it was not possible to invite the soldiers due to health or age.
Putin also praised us President Donald Trump’s Political Style, saying the recently inaugurated President would bring the European Elite Back in Line. He said that it would happen very soon and that “they will be at their master’s whole and wagging their tails nicely”.
Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Keith Kellogg Said Both Kyiv and Moscow must be Willing to Compromise to Successfully negotiate an end to the ongoing war. “I think both sides will give a little bit,” he said.
Rescuers evacuate the body of a person killed in an apartment building damaged during a russian drone strike in Ukraine, January 30, 2025 [Handout/Press Service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Sumy region via Reuters]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Made a Renewed Appeal to the West, urgently requiring more support to protect kyiv from russia’s targeted attacks. “We need Better Protection-Air Defense Systems, Long-Range Weapons and Sanctions Pressure,” he said.
Zelenskyy’s Communication Adviser, Dmytro Lytvyn, said the US’s call for kyiv to hold an election after agriING to a ceasefire with moscow looked like a “failed plan” if there was not more to it. He admitted that he had not seen kellogg’s full interview on the subject, but said ukraine would prefer a more in-deppth approach.
Trump told reporters that talks with russia and ukraine are going “pretty well”. He said meeting and talks were scheduled with relevant parties, including both Kyiv and Moscow.