Below are the main developments on the day of 1088 from Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Sunday, February 16:

Fighting

• Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy He said that he wanted the envoy of US President Donald Trump to Ukraine, Keith Keel, to visit his country’s eastern line to submit a report to Trump on the ground on the ground.
• Zelinski said in Munich Security Conference. “I really want him to bring all this to President Trump … to show him, tell him.”
• The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that the Russian military progress in December and southwest of the city of Boukerrovsk-which is located northwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine-has slowed over the past two weeks.
• The progress that slows down around Boucrovsk may indicate that the Russian military leadership will put priority for offensive operations against Kostiantynivka – in the far south of the confrontation line in Ukraine in Donetsk – in the warmer months of this year, ISW said.

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• ISW also said that developments may be slowed down by the front line Russian units decompose the battle Operations of an intense Ukrainian drone in the area.
• Ukraine also recently advanced the Russian forces near Boucrovsk in Ukraine, while Russian forces recently advanced near Toretsk and Velyka Novosilka in the Russian Kursk region, which is kept by the Ukrainian forces.
• Belarus has denied plans to highlight and attack Ukraine, after Zelinski warned of this scenario at the Munich conference. “We do not pose a threat to anyone, and we do not increase the number of forces or arms systems – unlike our neighbors, residents and the bodies, who focus on militarization.” .

US plans for Ukraine

• Senior officials of the Trump administration will start talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the coming days, according to reports of the political news port, citing sources familiar with the plan.
• but Europe will not have Keel said in the United States that a seat at the peace talks table in Ukraine.
• European leaders stood To impose their way to the table to obtain any talk, as Washington announced that a team of senior American officials plan to meet in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with their counterparts from Moscow and Kiev.
• US officials said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkev will go to Saudi Arabia for talks, without providing details about the date of the meeting.
• NATO President Mark Roti said that Europe had to reach “good proposals” to secure peace in Ukraine if it wanted to participate in the US -led talks.

• European leaders are now planning to hold a special summit on the conflict in Ukraine in response to Trump’s plans.
• France will host the summit, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radoslao Sikorsky wrote on X, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will attend.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rubio discussed the situation in Ukraine in an invitation on Saturday, as well as removing “mono barriers” to normalize relations.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the invitation that Washington began, Lavrov and Rubio agreed to work to restore the “dialogue between mutual states” in line with the tone that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• He spoke in Munich, and Zelinsky also called for Creation of a European armyOn the pretext that the continent is no longer able to rely on Washington. “We cannot exclude the possibility that America will say no to Europe about the issues it threatens,” he said.
• The President of Finland said that the United States asked European countries about what they could contribute in terms of security guarantees for Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy announced that it prevented a deal that would give the United States access to huge amounts of Ukrainian natural resources because it lacks “security guarantees” from Washington Kiev.

• The US Secretary of State Sikorsky said that the “credibility” of the United States as an ally depends on the results of the war in Ukraine.
• Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) confirmed the confirmed industrial countries again “their fixed support for Ukraine.” G7 countries provided military and financial support to Kyiv, including by providing the origins of the Russian -Ukrainian state in the West.
• UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer said that Europe “must play a greater role in NATO” and work with the United States “to secure the future of Ukraine” among the “threat we face from Russia.”
• Andrei Yermak’s foreign minister, Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrei Yermak, said they discussed Kiev’s vision of the peace road in Ukraine with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
• Wang told the Munich conference on Friday that China believes that all stakeholders in Russia-Ukraine’s conflict should participate in peace talks, confirming the role of Europe.

Military aid

• Czech President Peter Paville said that the Czech -led initiative to provide Ukraine with a large ammunition of the cable has handed over 1.6 million shells and will continue.

Regional developments

• ISW reported that Russian shipping ships continued to evacuate the military assets in Moscow from the port of Tartous, where Russia is negotiating its continued presence in Syria with the new interim government, after the fall of the former Bashar al-Assad-Moscow ally regime.