Ukraine Conflict Monitor
Update
Ukraine war situation update | 7 – 13 February 2026
Chaotic assaults in previously inactive locations allow Russia to continue claiming advances and posturing strength amid diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Key stats
1,672 political violence events
1% increase compared to the previous three weeks
115 incidents of violence targeting civilians
9% decrease compared to the previous three weeks
At least 57 fatalities from civilian targeting
11% decrease compared to the previous three weeks
Key events
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10 Feb.
Donetsk — Russian aerial bombs kill three civilians and wound 16 others in Sloviansk
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10 Feb.
Zaporizhia — Ukrainian strikes reportedly kill five civilians and wound nine others in Vasylivka
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10 Feb.
Kharkiv — A Russian-recruited local donates poisoned medicine to the military, killing a Ukrainian serviceman in Kharkiv city
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied a settlement south of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region and claimed to have captured a village west of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region.
- Ukrainian forces regained a settlement north of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region and two settlements near the border with Russia in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
- Russian forces launched at least 54 long-range missile and drone attacks, including on the western regions of Lviv, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Khmelnytskyi.
- Russian strikes killed at least 45 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Rivne, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed 10 civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions.
Spotlight: Russia intensifies cross-border attacks in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions
Since December, Russian forces have been probing the Russian-Ukrainian international border in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions with small-scale attacks in previously dormant areas. ACLED records clashes in nearly a dozen new locations along the border last week, both north and south of previous operations to the north of Sumy city. Similarly, in the Kharkiv region, Russia conducted cross-border assaults in areas between the eastern frontline, along the administrative boundary with the Luhansk region, and the northern frontline surrounding Vovchansk. The attacks have involved small groups of Russian infantry with no heavy equipment who have been rapidly crossing into Ukraine across the international border. They have been searching for weak spots in the Ukrainian defense and have reportedly often been repelled by Ukrainian drones.1
Cross-border attacks in previously dormant areas increased in the second half of December and then more than doubled in January, remaining at a high level in the first weeks of February. As Russian offensives appear to slow down elsewhere along the frontline, chaotic assaults in previously inactive locations allow Russia to continue claiming advances and posturing strength amid diplomatic efforts to end the war.2 While these limited-scale advances do not seem to be an operational priority for Russia and are unlikely to cause significant rifts in the frontline, they have also stretched out outnumbered Ukrainian forces, possibly in an attempt to reignite momentum in other areas of the frontline in the Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Russian offensives in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions also aim to create a buffer zone from Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes in the border regions of Russia. Ukrainian strikes on these areas have decreased since November, but do not appear to have been further affected by the Russian campaign of intensified cross-border assaults so far.
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