United 24 Media:
🔹 “We don’t have to choose whether we strike a military target or energy. He sells this energy. He sells oil. So is it energy or a military target? Honestly, it’s the same. He sells oil, takes the money and invests it in weapons. He kills Ukrainians with these weapons,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the concept of Ukrainian strikes on Russia.
“What should a Ukrainian do?
Two options.
We build weapons and strike at their weapons.
Or we strike at the source of their money — their origin.
And the source is their energy.
That’s what’s happening.
All of these are legitimate targets for us.
And who before us could do this to the Russians?
Nobody.”
🔸 The electricity supply situation remains difficult, with significant damage to infrastructure. Work is underway to launch additional generation capacity, and an extra 9 MW is expected to come online in Kyiv today, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said after a meeting of the Emergency Situations Management Headquarters.
He noted that Ukraine recorded its largest daily volume of electricity imports today, which helped stabilize the system after massive Russian attacks and reduce the power deficit.
Together with the Ministry of Development, efforts continue to attract equipment from international partners and distribute it through energy hubs.
Over the past two weeks, 17 humanitarian cargo shipments from partners in Switzerland, Slovakia, Denmark, Canada, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Germany, Austria, Lithuania and Italy have arrived at Ministry of Energy warehouses. During the same period, 774 generators and 40 units of block-modular boiler houses, cogeneration plants, boilers and other equipment were delivered to the regions.
Ukraine is also expecting another 798 generators, 117 transformers and 120 boilers and cogeneration plants in the near future.
🔹 President Zelenskyy: 10 Ukrainian arms export centers to operate in Europe
The offices will be based in the Baltic and Northern European countries, with a total of 10 representative offices expected to operate across Europe by the end of the year. Zelenskyy said that by mid-February “we will see the production of our drones in Germany,” while production lines are already operating in the UK.
“These are all our Ukrainian technologies. There are several different projects. Everything will be based mainly on Ukrainian technologies and Ukrainian specialists. We are simply at war, and not all companies yet feel they have enough freedom to enter all other markets,” the president said.
🔸 We are only at the beginning of the path of air defense production. We did not have our own air defense. Do you know what happened? At the beginning of the war, we had 25 S-300 systems and several thousand missiles. Do you know how many S-300 systems were in Kyiv in the 1990s? Not in Ukraine — 25, 30 or 50 systems — but specifically in Kyiv. Two hundred fifty. So what have they been doing with Ukraine all these years? — President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“You can compare it to a monster — Russia: a monster that has hundreds of these systems and missiles and produces S-300 systems. We did not produce S-300, we did not have missiles. What we had was just a little left over. That is, we are only on the path to creating air defense.
During this time, we have received Hawk, IRIS-T, NASAMS, Patriot, various missiles — PAC-2, PAC-3 and others. We have many different systems, dozens of air defense solutions. And we are on this path: we are building our own, creating our own system. It is very difficult.
We do not have 100 years behind us, when the entire Soviet machine built this air defense. We do not have that. We are starting during a full-scale war. And before that, sorry, there was no industry in Ukraine. Industry means when the Russians attack you and you stop them. This is industry. And today ours is the largest in Europe.
This is an industry, but it is still smaller than Russia’s.
So, to complete the answer to your question — is it enough? No, it is not enough. But we are building priorities in such a way as to inflict more pain on the aggressor.”
🔹 A mobile kindergarten will operate in the Velykooleksandrivska community to help address the shortage of preschool education after many institutions in the Kherson region were damaged or destroyed due to Russian aggression, the Kherson regional military administration reported.
The specially equipped bus includes textbooks, educational games, sports equipment, special furniture, a locker room and even a washbasin. It provides all the necessary materials for learning and active leisure for preschool and primary school children.
The bus will travel between settlements that currently do not have functioning kindergartens.
The project was implemented by the Kherson Regional Development Agency in cooperation with the Swiss charitable organization Swiss for Ukraine. International partners also provided two additional vehicles to support community logistics.
🇮🇳 Indian refineries refuse to buy Russian oil amid New Delhi’s trade deal with Trump — Reuters
Traders report that Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, and Reliance Industries are not accepting new offers for Russian oil for March and April, although some March supplies were contracted earlier. Most other Indian refineries have also suspended new purchases.
There were no official comments from the companies or ministries. The Indian Foreign Ministry emphasized its strategy of diversifying energy sources. At the same time, New Delhi has not publicly announced a refusal to buy Russian oil, despite signals from the United States.
🔸 “We have no intention of attacking Europe; we have absolutely no need for that. And if Europe carries out its threats to prepare for war against us and launches an attack on Russia, it will not be an ‘SVO’ — it will be a full-scale military response using all available means,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on NTV.
🔥 Russian oil companies’ losses from strikes on refineries have exceeded 1 trillion rubles (about $12 billion).
According to insurance broker Mains, direct damage to the oil and gas sector from drone attacks surpassed 100 billion rubles. Including lost profits and indirect losses, the total exceeds 1 trillion rubles.
Bloomberg estimates that by 2025 Ukraine had carried out around 120 strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, 81 of them targeting refineries. Against this backdrop, Argus analysts report that oil supplies to Russian refineries fell to a 15-year low — 228.3 million tons.