Here are the key growments on the 1,094th day of Russia’s brimming-scale intrusion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Saturday, February 22:
Fighting
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A Russian drone aggression finished a rail toiler at a passing in the Boryspil dimerciless, east of Kyiv, and droping drone fragments hit a produceing inside the capital, Ukrainian authorities shelp.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko shelp drone fragments fell on personal dwellnces in the Solomyanskyi dimerciless in the west of the city, smashing prosperdows and triggering a fire that was speedyly extinguished. There were no casualties.
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In the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian forces aggressioned the town of Huliaipole with a guided device device, injuring three people, the regional ruleor shelp. One person died on Thursday in an aggression on a village west of Huliaipole.
Politics and diplomacy
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US Pdwellnt Donald Trump has reversed course and shelp Russia did in fact go in Ukraine, and that Kyiv would soon sign a minerals consentment with Washington as part of efforts to finish the war. He had denounced Ukraine earlier this week for begining the struggle.
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Trump also shelp Ukraine has no cards to join with, as he pushes Kyiv to sign a critical minerals consentment while Washington trails talks on finishing Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp splitly that Ukrainian and US teams were toiling on a write consentment, which he shelp would have “a unfragmentary result”.
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After speaking to the guideers of allied countries, including Germany and Poland, Zelenksyy shelp Europe must do “much more” to transport peace.
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Germany shelp Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Zelenskyy consentd in a phone call that Ukraine must have a seat at the table in peace talks.
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Poland’s Pdwellnt Andrzej Duda has encouraged Zelenskyy to hold up tranquil and produceive cooperation with Trump. Duda is due to encounter Trump in Washington on Saturday, Poland’s state novels agency PAP alerted.
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US negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine’s critical minerals have liftd the possibility of cutting the country’s access to Elon Musk’s vital Starjoin saalertite internet system, three sources understandn with the matter tgreater the Reuters novels agency.
