Overview
- Kyiv is recovering from a Feb. 3 barrage of 71 missiles and 450 drones that inflicted severe damage on generation and transmission assets, with at least four people killed and dozens injured.
- Fresh attacks continued on Feb. 4 as Ukraine reported 105 drones launched and a market strike in Druzhkivka with cluster munitions that killed at least seven, alongside damage in Odesa and two deaths in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- More than 200 repair crews are working in the capital, over 1,100 apartment buildings lack heating, and the Darnytsia heat plant was heavily hit, while international partners shipped over 38 tons of generators and transformers to bolster repairs.
- Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov called the first day of U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi substantive and productive, with sessions to resume Thursday and a near-term prisoner exchange flagged by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Major gaps remain over territorial concessions and enforceable security guarantees, as Kyiv accuses Moscow of violating a brief energy-strike pause and the Kremlin defends targeting energy sites as linked to Ukraine’s military effort.