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More talks are expected in Switzerland today, where a Ukrainian delegation is meeting a US team. Meanwhile, Russia has continued its overnight attacks – and accused Ukraine of plotting a terrorist attack. Follow the latest.
Thursday 26 February 2026 08:45, UK
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia targeted Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and residential buildings with 420 drones and 39 missiles overnight.
He added that most of the drones were “Shaheds”, while 11 of the missiles were ballistic.
“There is destruction in eight regions: many private and multi-storey buildings have been damaged,” the Ukrainian president said in a Telegram post.
“As of now, dozens of people are known to have been injured as a result of this attack, including children.”
Zelenskyy added that Russia attacked gas infrastructure in the central region of Poltava (see post at 7.21am).
He also said Russia attacked several other regions with “most of the missiles… shot down”.
Despite this, Zelenskyy said more defence missiles were needed as the cold continues and “Russia tries to destroy our energy sector”. 
On the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sky News has partnered with Voices of Children<\/a>, a Ukrainian charity, to tell the stories of teenagers living through war every day this week<\/b>. Read three others at the links below.<\/b>
My name is Viktoriia and I’m 15. I’m from Donetsk, where the war began back in 2014. Since then, I’ve been living in Kyiv, though my relatives remain under Russian occupation. War is the worst thing that has ever happened in my life. 
I clearly remember a night just after Russia’s full-scale invasion: 26 February 2022. My mother, our cat and I were stuck in a traffic jam that seemed endless. It was already the second day of continuous travel. It was painful to look at my mother. I could see how exhausted she was – she had been driving the entire time. I woke her up each time she dozed off as the traffic stood stalled. 
Throughout the trip, I felt restless and unable to settle. Somehow watching my mother constantly made it easier. She picked up her phone, turned up the screen brightness and began reading something. I noticed something change in her face. I realised tears were streaming down. She was crying very quietly, as if hoping I wouldn’t notice. But I did. And I started crying too. Our cat, Dyma, jumped down from where she had been sleeping and lay across my legs. I realised she understood us, or, if not, she certainly felt something. So we cried there in the car, and I am sure that in the cars ahead of us and behind us were people experiencing the very same feeling. 
Three years passed before I learned what my mother had read on her phone that night. It was a message saying her brother, who had been living in occupied Donetsk, had been forcibly mobilised into the Russian army. 
Now, sometimes, when I feel overwhelming exhaustion and helplessness, I want to give up, to close myself off and let go of my dreams. But somehow, that doesn’t happen. I wake up every day. I live. I even find joy. Despite everything, and because of everything, I deeply love this life. 
Set up in 2015, Voices of Children<\/a> <\/b>provides psychological support to children living through war.<\/b>
A man and a woman were left in hospital after a Russian attack on a multi-storey residential building in the southeastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
A car also caught fire and firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze.
The service added that a 41-year-old man was evacuated from a “dangerous place” in the southern city of Nikopol after private homes and cars were damaged.
As we reported at 7.20, Ukrainian authorities said one person was killed and at least 22 more were injured after separate attacks in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv overnight.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has responded to overnight Russian attacks in the central region of Poltava.
Pictures show firefighters battling large flames, with the service reporting attacks targeted “industrial enterprises and private households”.
It said technological equipment and production facilities were damaged, while restoration work is under way after the fire was extinguished.
One person has been killed and eight others injured after “enemy attacks” on the south-east region of Zaporizhzhia<\/b> overnight.
The region’s governor Ivan Fedorov reported Russia launched “720 strikes on 31 settlements” along with three missiles.
He added there were 137 reports of damage to homes, cars and other infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the northeastern region of Kharkiv<\/b>, reported that 14 people were injured after Russia targeted the area.
He said the injuries included a seven-year-old boy.
Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs also reported the injuries, adding that two residential buildings and one private home were damaged in Kyiv<\/b>.
Eight people were preparing a terrorist attack against the head of a defence company in Moscow on orders from Kyiv in 2024, Russia’s Investigative Committee told state news agency TASS.
The agency also reported they were planning the attack for a reward of at least one million rubles (\u00a39,500).
Three minors and five others attempted to plant an improvised explosive device under a car in the city of Kolomna, southeast of the capital Moscow, the report claims.
This report has not been independently verified.
Good morning and welcome back to our live updates of the war in Ukraine.
Delegations from Kyiv and the US are set to meet today for talks in Geneva – we’ll have the latest from Switzerland throughout our coverage today.
There are also plenty of updates to bring you from the battlefield, where Vladimir Putin’s forces are attempting to limit localised counterattacks and begin advancing again across Ukraine’s east.
Here’s a reminder of the state of the frontline in eastern Ukraine this morning.
Thanks for following our live updates of the war in Ukraine.
We’ll be back tomorrow with more. Until then, here’s a rundown of what’s been happening today:
On the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sky News has partnered with Voices of Children<\/a>, a Ukrainian charity, to tell the stories of teenagers living through war <\/b>every day this week. Read three others at the links below.<\/b>
My name is Rina and I’m 15. I’m from Akkerman in the Odesa region, one of the oldest cities in Ukraine. I am a poet and journalist. 
Akkerman used to be nothing more than the place I lived. Now the painful realisation that I can no longer reach my native Black Sea washes over me – it’s mined. That was when I began to feel I truly belonged to this city.
At the beginning of the war, everything around me felt like an all-consuming haze. At first, people said the war might begin on 16 February. Being so young, I shrugged them off without a care. Years later, speaking with older friends, I realised that those weeks had felt like the approach of a storm. And in the end, it all began on 24 February. 
Three years on, in 2025, that feeling returned. A summer of shelling, explosions and exhaustion. That was when the Russians struck my school. Four days earlier, we had held our graduation ceremony there.  
I was at home that day, and I didn’t even have time to react to the air-raid siren. Everything happened too fast. I was sitting by the window when a powerful explosion rang out. I rushed into the corridor, and a minute later, outside. My mother, grandmother and I ran to the basement. It was there that we heard the second blast. 
That day, three people were killed – a teacher and two staff members. I immediately started texting my teacher and my friends. Thankfully, none of them were harmed. Later, a friend of mine who lived nearby came to help distribute water and clear the rubble. Now no one studies there in person anymore. Some students only have online classes; others transferred to different schools, myself included. 
Every time I walk past the half-shattered school, I feel as though I’ve lost a part of myself. 
And yet, despite everything, some things hold me together: the feeling of home, a deep historical connection to these places, an almost all-consuming love. 
Set up in 2015, Voices of Children<\/a> <\/b>provides psychological support to children living through war.<\/b>
Despite buying it in significantly lower volumes than before 2022, Europe is still purchasing Russian oil in 2026, effectively funding a war in Ukraine that it’s trying to end.
Speaking to lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim<\/a>, European Parliament president Roberta Metsola says inadvertently financing the war is “unacceptable” for Europe, and the continent “needs to do better” at tackling Russia’s shadow fleet.
She says pushing through the 20th package of sanctions against Russia is a big step towards achieving this goal.
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