A drone crashed into a residential building in Kyiv. Photo Reuters / Gleb Garanich.
- The first day of trilateral negotiations involving delegations from Russia, Ukraine, and the USA has concluded in Abu Dhabi. According to Politico, citing sources from Ukraine and the USA, the discussions may have a more positive outcome than expected.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an upcoming prisoner exchange with Russia.
- According to Zelensky, over 1,100 apartment buildings in Kyiv remain without heating.
- In the city of Bataisk, Rostov region, an airstrike occurred, damaging warehouse buildings and parked cars. Drones were shot down in Bataisk, as well as in Rostov, Taganrog, Novoshakhtinsk, and the Azov district.
- On Wednesday evening, Russian drones attacked in Sumy region, one of which destroyed a car, injuring a 59-year-old driver.
- The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Vadim Filashkin, reported a shelling of Druzhkovka with cluster munitions, resulting in at least seven deaths and another 15 injuries.
- Night attacks on Odesa resulted in injuries to five people, according to local authorities.
- Four people died in the occupied part of Kherson region due to attacks by Ukrainian armed forces over the course of the day.
- On the night of February 3, Russia conducted a massive shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other regions of Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure facilities.
- Strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to two others.
- An employee of the Polish Ministry of Defense was detained on suspicion of espionage in Warsaw, accused of collaborating with Russian and Belarusian spies.
- Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys appealed to the International Criminal Court prosecutor's office to issue arrest warrants for high-ranking Russian officials involved in the bombings of Ukrainian energy facilities, accusing them of genocide.
- Estonian authorities detained the container ship Baltic Spirit, which was sailing under the flag of the Bahamas and had a Russian crew, near Naissaar Island in the country's internal waters. The vessel was en route from Ecuador to St. Petersburg.
