Weekly Russia-Ukraine War summary: AFU counterattacks near Pokrovsk, drone attack on Chornobyl, North Koreans return to the front line

In the vicinity of Kurakhove, the situation for the AFU has “sharply deteriorated,” with Russian forces capturing almost all of Andriivka in the north of the “Kurakhove pocket” and Dachne west of Kurakhove. Pressure has increased “literally in every area.”

In the Kupyansk sector, a new threat for the AFU has emerged near the Russian bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskil River, where the Russians have advanced in Dvorichna and Fyholivka. As Ukrainian OSINT resource DeepState reports, local Territorial Defense brigades are failing to contain the Russian offensive, in part because of the Russians' superiority in FPV drones.

Mutual strikes and sabotage

The AFU Air Force reported (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) downing 484 Shahed-type and unidentified UAVs out of 893 launched during the week. Another 383 UAVs were “radar lost.” The Air Force also claims to have shot down six ballistic missiles out of seven.

On the night of Feb. 11, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on gas infrastructure facilities in the Poltava Region, leaving several settlements without gas supply. Russia is known to have struck the following civilian targets:

• On the night of Feb. 9, six people were injured in a Russian shelling strike in northern Donbas. Kostiantynivka was subjected to four air strikes, which injured four people.
• Late at night on Feb. 9, a strike on Kramatorsk (1, 2, 3) with a FAB-500 aerial bomb equipped with a Unified Gliding and Correction Module (UMPK) killed one person and injured nine.
• A missile strike on Kyiv in the early hours of Feb. 12 killed one person and injured four. The building housing the studios of Ukrainian State Foreign Broadcasting was damaged.
• On Feb. 13, the Russian Aerospace Forces struck Kramatorsk with two FAB-250 bombs with UMPK kits, killing one person and injuring five.
• On the night of Feb. 14, a Russian drone hit the New Safe Confinement over the destroyed Unit 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. The Security Service of Ukraine showed the wreckage of the drone, which bore the caption “Geran-2.”