Overview
- Pre-dawn explosions were reported in Kyiv on Feb. 22, with officials warning of ballistic missiles and damage recorded across five districts of the wider region.
- Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched one ballistic missile and about 120 strike drones overnight, targeting multiple regions, and reported intercepting or jamming roughly 106 to 107 drones.
- Russian attacks damaged energy and civilian sites, including power facilities and a school in Odesa, as well as homes in Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, causing multiple injuries.
- Ukraine said its forces struck the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant in Russia’s Udmurtia and a gas processing plant in Samara, with regional authorities in Udmurtia reporting 11 people injured.
- Fighting on the front lines remained intense, with the General Staff logging 138 combat clashes on Feb. 22 after 175 the previous day, and the fiercest battles around Huliaipole and Pokrovsk, as diplomacy in Geneva yielded no breakthrough.