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Putin\u2019s winter offensive failed as Ukraine regains 460 square kilometers of land this year, Zelenskyi says. Zelenskyi offers help to stop Iranian drones in the Middle East if leaders there convince Putin to a ceasefire, Bloomberg News says. Interceptor drones account for more than 70 per cent of interceptions of Shahed drones that occurred in Kyiv and on its outskirts in February, Syrskyi says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin\u2019s winter offensive failed as Ukraine regains 460 square kilometers of land this year, Zelenskyi says<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has regained control of 460 square kilometers of land since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist asked Zelenskyi: \u201cYou recently said that Ukrainian troops had regained 300 square kilometers of territory in a few weeks. What\u2019s your view of the battlefield situation?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has recaptured 460 square kilometers of land since the beginning of the year, Zelenskyi answered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPutin failed in his winter offensive,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Russians will try to carry out spring offensives, but I think they will lose once again and many soldiers will die for nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2026, Ukraine regained control of more land than Russia captured in the same month, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a post to social media Monday. He described the proportion of gains as happening for the first time since Ukraine\u2019s Kursk operation. Ukrainian troops were \u201cconducting active actions in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions that yield results,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 22, Ukraine\u2019s Air Assault Forces said their main tasks were to halt Russia\u2019s further advance in the regions of Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, destroy the enemy\u2019s group of forces and push them out of the region of Dnipro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has regained control of 400 square kilometers of land and eight towns and villages in the Oleksandrivka direction in the country\u2019s south since late January, Syrskyi said in a post to social media on February 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyi offers help to stop Iranian drones in Middle East if leaders there convince Putin to a ceasefire, Bloomberg News says<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Volodymyr Zelenskiy offered to send his best experts in shooting down Iranian drones to the Middle East if leaders there convince Vladimir Putin to agree to a month-long truce in Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, Bloomberg News said Monday. The paragraphs below are quoted from the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion has allowed Kyiv to develop unique expertise in intercepting drones, many of them Iranian-made Shaheds currently being deployed against countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the Ukrainian president said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would suggest the following: leaders of the Middle East have great relations with Russians,\u201d Zelenskiy told Bloomberg News by phone from Kyiv. \u201cThey can ask Russians to implement a month-long ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once a truce was in place \u201cwe will send our best operators of drone interceptors to the Middle East countries,\u201d he said. The ceasefire could also be called for two months or two weeks \u201cso we can help the Middle East countries to protect civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian president held a series of phone calls with leaders of Gulf states affected by Iranian attacks on Monday, including Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow was also \u201cin constant contact with the Iranian leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interceptor drones account for more than 70 per cent of interceptions of Shahed drones that occurred in Kyiv and on its outskirts in February, Syrskyi says<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interceptor drones account for more than 70 per cent of interceptions of the Shahed drones that occurred in Kyiv and on its outskirts in February, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a post to social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message sums up a meeting where he said he heard reports of the so-called \u201csmall air-defenses.\u201d He oversees the development of the projects that aim to strengthen counter-drone protection and counter Russian unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those gathered at the meeting analyzed the interceptions of the Shaheds on all three layers of air defenses. They also heard reports of progress in protection of regional cities, additional equipment for military helicopters are other anti-drone measures.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s small air defenses demonstrated in February the same efficiency as before despite worsening weather conditions and the shortage of interceptors. Interceptor drones made around 6,300 sorties and destroyed more than 1,500 Russian drones of various types last month, Syrskyi said.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said Ukraine is searching for solutions to address Russia\u2019s new tactics of using the Shaheds at critically low altitudes. \u201cWe are working with the manufacturers of interceptor drones to increase their efficiency. We continue to form and train the crews to pilot these drones. We are staffing air defense divisions of the unmanned systems forces,\u201d Syrskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMuch work has been done in this area in a year, but we have to put in more efforts and move quicker. The protection of peaceful Ukrainian cities and towns, our energy system and other critical infrastructure sites in the rear is at stake,\u201d he continued, adding that \u201cas a result of the meeting\u201d he gave tasks to respective military branches, including new ones.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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