Below are the main developments on the day of 1078 from Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Thursday, February 6:

Fighting

• Evan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration in Zaburizia, said that Russian forces carried out nearly 400 attacks on nine settlements in the southeast Zaburisia region in Ukraine within 24 hours. About 13 reports were registered on the damage of residential buildings, vehicles and infrastructure.
• Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski said that Kiev returned 150 Russian families, some of whom were detained for more than two years. This effort was part of mutual exchange between the two countries, in which the United Arab Emirates mediated.
• Kiev’s army said it had shot down 57 out of 104 drones that Russia fired overnight, while 42 did not reach their targets. The army said that Moscow had shot the Iskander M. in Ukraine.
• The Russian government news agency, TASS, told the country’s Ministry of Defense as saying that the Moscow forces had seized the settlements of Paranivka and Novemings in the regions of Donetsk and Corcity in eastern Ukraine.
• The Ukraine Army said that Kiev’s forces hit the Pashnat oil refinery in the Russian Krasnodar area, which caused a fire. According to the army, the oil refinery participated in providing gasoline and diesel with the Russian forces.
• The Ukrainian media reported that a person was killed, and four others were wounded in an explosion near a military recruitment office in the Khamilitsky area in the west of the country.
• Emergency services in Kiev said that the Russian attacks killed two people near the confrontation line in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine and one person near the Black Port of Odessa.

• The government news agency in Ukraine reported that the country’s national police chief, Ivan Bhavsky, accused Russian spying agencies of responsibility for explosions in Kiev military offices.
• Ukraine Defense Minister Rostam Omrov said that the country is launching a project to develop automatic vehicle units “that would increase the use of unmanned land systems in the army.”

Russian gas and oil

• Igor Babushkin, the ruler of the Russian Astrakhan region, told the population not to panic after its main city, which is located near a large gas chemical complex, was immersed in a cloud of natural gas after an Ukrainian attack. He also assured the population that natural gas is not dangerous in open spaces.

Humanitarian aid

• Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to allocate a million dollars to Ukraine’s humanitarian aid, setting money to purchase and provide energy equipment.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy has signed two draft laws to extend martial law and mobilization for another three months, lasting until May 9.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he welcomed the opinion of US President Donald Trump that attracting Ukraine towards NATO was a source of concern for Moscow.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the country is in contact with Washington at a ministerial level between individual administrations and that the communication was “intensifying”, but he refused to provide more details.
• Lithuania’s Energy Minister Zivantas Weissionas said that the three Baltic countries that are separated from the Russian energy network on Saturday to join the Western Energy Network will remove “Russia’s ability to use the electricity system as a tool for geopolitical extortion.”
• Reuters reported that UK Foreign Minister David Lami will announce 55 million pounds (68.7 million dollars) in financial support to Kev to help put the country in the “strongest possible position”.
• Ukraine Foreign Ministry said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (International Atomic Energy Agency) had been postponed to its rotation to Russia’s nuclear power plant due to the lack of security guarantees from Moscow. This was not the first time that the Kremlin used “extortion as a tool to intimidate international experts,” the ministry warned that it “would not allow Russia to undermine the agency’s independence.”

• The Russian government news agency, Raya, quoted Moscow diplomat Mikhail Hulanov, an accusation of Ukraine of lying about the lack of Russian guarantees. Instead, Ukraine was trying to set new rules for the rotation of members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as reported.
• Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, told reporters that Zelinski’s comment indicates that he is ready for direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to end the war, was only “empty words”.
• Peskov also described Zelenskyy’s request for nuclear weapons as “boundaries of madness”, adding that “there is an unpopular system of nuclear weapons, among other things.”
• Ukraine, Ukraine, Andrei Sipha said that Ukraine has a “huge” possibility to buy LNG (LNG) from the United States and called on American companies to participate in rebuilding Kiev.
• Zelinski reaffirmed his willingness to hold elections in Ukraine, but said that the task is still impossible in the war, noting legal and logistical reasons.
• The Norwegian intelligence service said that Russia is “likely” to launch vandalism attempts against the country in 2025, which may target energy infrastructure or aid sent to Ukraine.