New format of General HQ, defense of Bakhmut, return of rescuers from Turkey: last night's highlights
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chaired a General Headquarters meeting in a new format and said that the defense of Bakhmut would continue within reason; and the first group of State Emergency Service specialists who helped to eliminate the effects of the earthquake returned from Turkey. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
New format of General Headquarters
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had held a meeting of the General Headquarters in a new format — an expanded one. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi and the commanders of the sectors reported, and there were also reports directly from the front line.
"I keep reiterating: the more Russia loses there, in Donbas — Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Maryinka, Kreminna — the sooner we will be able to end this war with Ukraine's victory," the head of state emphasized.
Defense of Bakhmut
Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Italian journalists that Ukraine would continue to defend Bakhmut within reason.
"It is important for us to protect Bakhmut, but not at any cost. We will fight as long as it is reasonable," Zelenskyy explained.
According to him, the Russians are seeking to continue the offensive to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, up to the administrative borders of Donetsk Oblast, and then, if they can, to Dnipro.
Return of rescuers
The first group of Ukrainian rescuers who helped their Turkish colleagues search for people under the rubble and eliminate the consequences of the earthquakes have returned from Turkey.
As of the evening of February 19, the confirmed death toll from the earthquake exceeded 41,000 people in southern Turkey and at least 4,000 more in neighboring Syria.
Situation in power system
Ukrenergo does not expect a shortage of electricity in the coming days — unless there are new missile attacks from Russia.
However, in some regions, the state of the grids does not allow for 100% power supply to certain cities. Above all, in Odesa.
Other news
- Russians are using riverbeds for missile routes to bypass air defense systems.
- Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, who headed the new government on February 16, said that Transnistria should be demilitarized.
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