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2025-02-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: February 20, 2025
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22.32 The sounds of vibukhs sounded at the Kiev evening of the 20th of February due to the sound of alarm due to the threat of an attack by the “martyrs”. The head of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, told us about this on Telegram.
19.16 Russians attempted to enter Sumy Oblast on two BMD-2s, but the attempt was unsuccessful. This is evidenced by a video posted by Ukrainian military correspondent Andrey Tsaplienko on his Telegram channel.
18.54 A group of Ukrainian paratroopers in a Husky tactical armored vehicle approached an enemy position and blew it up. This was reported by the Operational-Strategic Group of Forces (OSGV) Khortytsia on its Telegram channel on Thursday, February 20.
18.39 The Ministry of Defense presented new rules for interaction with drone manufacturers. The military will receive drones faster, and companies will be able to plan production. This was reported by the head of the defense department Rustem Umerov on Thursday, February 20.
The announced DOT-Chain Defense System gives teams the ability to independently determine which drones they need according to the situation, while manufacturers will get a clear picture of demand and be able to plan production more effectively.
18.25 The current administration in the White House believes that the continuation of Russia's war against Ukraine is not beneficial to anyone. Therefore, it is necessary to strive for peace now. US Vice President J.D. Vance wrote about this on the social network X. According to him, President Donald Trump "deals with reality and facts," so it is necessary to strive for peace now.
17.20 In Kiev, a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg began. At the request of the American side, communication with journalists is not provided. Only protocol filming was conducted.
17.01 Since the beginning of the day, 59 combat clashes have occurred on the front in 11 directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the details in the operational summary as of 16.00.
16.46 Frontliner has shown a photo of an F-16 fighter jet in action, taken in one of the directions of the front. This was reported by Frontliner founder and editor-in-chief Andrey Dubchak on his Facebook page.
16.33 Russian actor and State Duma deputy Dmitry Pevtsov was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison for anti-Ukrainian propaganda. He openly supported the Russian war, called for the seizure of Ukraine and denied war crimes.
16.30 On the morning of February 20, a grey Renault Duster exploded on Vostochny Avenue in the temporarily occupied Berdyansk. Inside the car was war criminal Yevgeny Bogdanov, a Russian citizen who formally held the position of the so-called deputy head of the occupation administration of Berdyansk. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate.
16.24 Russian occupiers have launched a full-fledged railway connection between Rostov and Mariupol in order to speed up their military logistics. This was reported by the Mariupol City Council on Telegram, citing the Center for the Study of the Occupation .
15.57 Russian shelling destroyed a local architectural monument - the wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the occupied village of Andreyevka in the Volnovakha district of Donetsk Oblast. This was reported by the Donetsk Oblast State Administration.
15.39 Russian invaders have once again attacked the city of Konstantinovka. At least four people have been killed. The city has been subjected to four air strikes and artillery shelling. There is extensive destruction.
14.47 A State Duma deputy and the wife of a party leader, close to the Russian leadership, will be tried for the deportation of Ukrainian children. This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to open sources, we are talking about State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova and the wife of the head of the A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, Inna Varlamova. They organized the deportation of two children from Kherson - an 11-month-old girl and a boy of almost two years.
The Ukrainian children were issued Russian-style birth certificates. The accused and her husband, the leader of A Just Russia, adopted the girl and changed her personal information. The boy was given to guardianship authorities due to psychological developmental disabilities; his whereabouts are still unknown.
14.22 The Security Service and the National Police detained four more arsonists who, on orders from the Russian FSB, were operating in the Kiev and Volyn regions.
The enemy's priority targets were government buildings and the homes of Ukrainian military families. To carry out enemy tasks, the Russians remotely recruited local residents who were looking for easy money on Telegram channels.
14.20 In Kherson, rescuers are extracting a man's body from under the rubble of a multi-story building destroyed by a Russian air strike. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
14.00 Russian aggressors shelled the city of Nikopol with heavy artillery. Two men were killed, a 39-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds. As a result of the attack, industrial and private enterprises, cafes, shops, garages, and cars were damaged in the city. A private house was damaged. A fire broke out, which rescuers quickly extinguished.
13.53 The Ministry of Defense has codified and approved for operation in the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine the Tesla ground-based logistics robotic complex . The Ukrainian Tesla hexodron is designed to transport various cargoes on the front lines.
13.40 Ukraine and Russia may reach a ceasefire in 2025. This was stated by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov. At the same time, he is skeptical about the deployment of peacekeeping forces in Ukraine as security guarantees.
13:13 The Main Intelligence Directorate carried out another special operation: dozens of FPV drone goggles were remotely detonated while they were being used by Russian pilots. This was reported by a source in the special services in a comment to Suspilny .
12:27 Financial Times journalists have identified the Russian soldier who likely executed six Ukrainian prisoners. Earlier, the Russian posted a video of the execution on his YouTube channel, but later deleted it. This is stated in the FT investigation.
12:09 Seven more children from the temporarily occupied Kherson region have been returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, on Thursday, February 20.
11:10 In 2025, the Ukrainian military will receive FPV drones worth 44 billion hryvnia. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense. According to the department, last year the main financial resource was directed to the purchase of long-range drones, but now the priority has changed.
10:30 On the night of February 20, Russian aggressors attacked Ukraine with 14 missiles and 161 Shahed-type strike UAVs and other types of drone imitators. The details of repelling this attack were reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:26 Russian troops attacked Ukraine with Shahed-type attack UAVs. The Commander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neyezhpapa, published a video of the night air battle over Odessa.
10:20 The Security Service prevented a terrorist attack in Dnipro and detained an agent group of enemy special services, which, on orders from Russia, tried to blow up a veteran law enforcement officer.
To commit the crime, the Russians recruited three agents: a 52-year-old nurse from the Vinnytsia region, as well as a 26-year-old unemployed Kharkiv resident and his 20-year-old girlfriend. They were recruited through a Telegram channel looking for "quick money".
The Ukrainian veteran was going to be eliminated using a homemade explosive device (IED), which a resident of the Vinnytsia region was supposed to activate when the man approached his garage.
08:38 US President Donald Trump estimates Russia's losses in the war with Ukraine at 900 thousand soldiers, Ukraine lost in the war, according to him, about 700 thousand.
"I think Russia has lost 900,000 soldiers, I think Ukraine has lost probably 700,000, and it's horrific, you can see body parts, all over the fields, all over. We can see them all very clearly via satellites," the American leader said.
08:13 Over the past 24 hours, missile forces and artillery have hit 13 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, one air defense system, six artillery systems, a command post and one important Russian facility. There have been 122 combat clashes on the front.
07:45 The number of victims as a result of a guided bomb hitting a multi-story residential building in the center of Kherson has increased to six.
"Two more people were injured as a result of a UAB hitting an apartment building in the center of Kherson. A 60-year-old man has abrasions. A 36-year-old man received an acupuncture injury," said the head of the GVA, Roman Mrochko.
Earlier, it was reported that two children and two more injured men were saved from the rubble.
07:19 As of February 20, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were approximately 863,580 people (+1,190 per day).
04:45 US President Donald Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly did nothing to end the war in three years, since he did not organize any negotiations. Trump also announced the losses of Ukraine and Russia based on his own data. According to him, Ukraine allegedly lost 700 thousand people, and Russia - 900 thousand.
03:17 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski spoke about the possible dispatch of a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine as one of the security guarantees. He stressed that this is only Ukraine's business, and Russia has no right to decide whether foreign troops will be present on Ukrainian territory.
02:30 Next week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the United States of America. A British politician will present a plan for the deployment of European troops to Ukraine to US President Donald Trump. The plan is to deploy fewer than 30,000 European troops. The British Prime Minister is expected to detail how European troops will be able to ensure that any ceasefire agreement brokered by the US President is respected. At the same time, Starmer calls on Trump to keep US fighter jets and missiles in Eastern Europe on standby to "respond with lethal force if Russia violates the terms of any ceasefire."
00:17 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda offers European states his action plan to support Ukraine. He stressed that the necessary real security guarantees for Ukraine - NATO membership - should remain on the table. Ukraine's accession to the EU should also be accelerated, with the target date of accession being 2030. In addition, Russia should be held accountable for war crimes, and sanctions should remain in place until the aggression stops. It is also necessary to urgently finance weapons and allocate 10 billion euros for the Ukrainian defense industry. Frozen Russian assets should be seized and tariffs imposed on imports from Russia/Belarus.
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