Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,461

These are the key developments from day 1,461 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 24 Feb 2026Here is where things stand on Tuesday, February 24:Fighting A man detonated an explosive device beside a police patrol car in central Moscow’s Savyolovsky railway station square, killing one officer and wounding two others, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on the Telegram messaging platform. Russian drone strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia wounded five people including a child, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (DSNS). Two people have been killed and three others wounded in the latest drone attacks that hit the southern Odesa region, Ukraine’s emergency services said. Minister for Restoration of Ukraine Oleksii Kuleba said Russia had attacked port infrastructure in Odesa. Seven police officers have been injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv, the head of the national police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, said. In a Facebook post, Vyhivskyi wrote that the attack, which was the second involving police in three days, was “not a coincidence” and carried out to “deliberately” kill officers. An explosion also hit a city police station in the southeastern city of Dnipro, smashing windows and damaging furnishings inside. No injuries were reported, and police did not comment on what might have caused the explosion. Ukrainian drones have struck a Russian pumping station serving the Druzhba oil pipeline, set up to supply Moscow’s crude to Eastern Europe, a Ukrainian security official said. The strike caused a fire at the Kaleykino station near the city of Almetyevsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region, the official added. Ukrainian forces “restored control” over 400 sq km (154 sq miles) of territory along a stretch of the southern front line, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskii, said in a rare announcement of a Ukrainian advance against Russian forces in several months. In a speech in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s attacks was more effective than it was often made out to be, citing unexpected territorial gains in February. He also added that the Russian economy “is creaking under the weight of sanctions and of warfare”.