Former officials lose citizenship, escalation on frontline: last night's highlights
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stripped Yanukovych—era officials of their citizenship, and the situation at the front is getting tougher. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night,
Deprivation of citizenship
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revoked the citizenship of a number of high-ranking officials from the time of Viktor Yanukovych who hold Russian passports. Among them are former Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, former Minister of Revenue and Duties Oleksandr Klymenko, former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, and others.
The head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that the next step would be to impose sanctions on them, arrest and confiscate all their property, corporate rights, and other assets in favor of the state.
The situation at the front is getting tougher
Russian occupiers are concentrating more and more of their forces on the Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Lyman axes to break down the Ukrainian defense, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his evening video address. According to him, the resilience of the Ukrainian military is now decisive.
New attacks
On February 4, Russian occupation forces fired at four territorial communities in Sumy Oblast, causing damage to two private residential buildings. The occupiers fired mortars and dropped explosives from a drone. A total of 26 hits were recorded in the region over the day.
Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast also suffered two attacks with cannon artillery. Power lines were damaged there.
Other news
- Kyiv city, Kyiv Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast will have no power outages in the first half of the day. Consumption limits in these regions are planned to be applied only from 4 to 8 p.m.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said there is a consensus with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on whether Ukraine can use Western-supplied weapons to attack Russian territory.
- Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov called American businessman Elon Musk "one of the largest private donors of Ukraine's future victory."
- The Security Service exposed large-scale corruption in the Yuzhne branch of the state enterprise Administration of Ukrainian Seaports. More than UAH 90 million ($2.4 million) was siphoned off from the state enterprise.
- In Kherson Oblast, power supply was restored to the village of Lyubymivka, which had been without electricity for 11 months.