Overview
- The General Staff recorded 121 combat engagements on February 21, with the greatest enemy activity reported on the Huliaipole and Pokrovsk axes.
- Russian forces conducted one missile strike and 68 airstrikes, dropping 178 guided bombs, while launching 5,522 kamikaze drones and carrying out 2,411 shellings.
- On the Pokrovsk direction, preliminary Ukrainian counts report 57 enemy combatants killed and 23 wounded, along with destroyed or damaged vehicles and 213 drones suppressed or destroyed.
- Huliaipole saw 31 assault attempts and Pokrovsk 27, with several actions still ongoing during the reporting window, while no attacks were recorded on the Kramatorsk sector.
- Analysts with DeepState and Kostyantyn Mashovets have warned that Russia may be preparing a larger offensive this spring–summer toward the Sloviansk–Kramatorsk area or Orikhiv–Zaporizhzhia.