Ukraine Day 1469: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. One Ukrainian soldier killed and four Ukrainian soldiers killed in two days.
Yesterday’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here.
An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine
Photo by Sviatoslav Smuk
On the frontline, OSCE reported February 26 that its drone was shot down February 25 after reporting on the location of four 122-m 2c1 Gvozdika howitzers over territory held by Russia-backed forces to the southwest of the village of Sarabash (formerly Kommunarovka), 26 km to the south of Donetsk.
There were five targeted attacks on Ukrainian positions, as a result of which 3 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded.
The ATO reported damage to homes in Podlesnoye (Pidlisne) by 152-mm mortars.
Dmitriy Hutsulyak, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on ATO issues said at a briefing that one Ukrainian soldier had also been killed the previous day, February 25. He was Oleksandr Sivko, born May 7, 1998 from Piskivka, Borodyansky District in Kiev Region, a paratrooper from the 95th Separate Paratroopers Assault Battalion. Another soldier was also wounded, and evacuated to a military hospital.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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