Ukraine and Russia have exchanged prisoners for the first time in a long time. 157 citizens have been returned home, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Read also: Zelenskyy announces first prisoner swap with Russia in four months 150 military personnel and seven Ukrainian civilians have been freed from Russian captivity.

Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops fighting under Russian command are attacking Ukrainian border communities from Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

Russian forces launched a drone attack on a high-rise residential building in Ukraine’s Dnipro, injuring at least seven people, the city’s Mayor Borys Filatov said. One person was killed, and four were wounded in Russian glide bomb attacks on Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.

North Korean military personnel are firing artillery and drones at Ukraine. Soldiers from the DPRK are also involved in aerial reconnaissance and adjusting MLRS strikes, according to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR).

This is Asami Terajima reporting from a very cold Kyiv on day 1,440 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russian troops are trying to "bypass and infiltrate" the destroyed town of Vovchansk in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast,

EADaily, February 5th, 2026. The anti-Russian project "Ukraine", created on Russian lands, should be closed after statements by some European politicians and the head of NATO about the deployment of foreign troops on Ukraine after the end of the war.

As losses mount, the pace of Russia's advance has at times been slower than the Battle of the Somme during World War I, a report says.

VLADIMIR Putin is hellbent on flooding Europe with dangerous criminals and serial rapists if a Ukrainian ceasefire is signed, a top foreign minister has warned. Russia’s despot could deploy

Multiple NATO nations in eastern Europe are rapidly putting into place new defenses on their borders with Russia and Belarus.