War in Ukraine

Zelensky: 'Over 1,400 buildings without heating in Kiev'

Moscow had accepted the US proposals on the Ukraine conflict made by Trump at the Anchorage summit, but today Washington "is no longer ready" to follow up on those same initiatives, the Russian foreign minister explained in an interview with Brics Tv

9 February 2026

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NATO, the European Union and OSCE have had their day, decreed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Brics Tv in which he instead pointed to Russia's neighbouring foreign countries, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) as Moscow's foreign policy priorities and the momentum that the Eurasian security architecture is gaining.

"All of these organisations - NATO with its unfulfilled guarantees not to expand eastwards, the EU, which has dismantled its dense network of cooperation with Russia, and the OSCE, which has subordinated its work to the unilateral actions of the West, surrendering the principle of consensus on which it was founded - are approaching the end of their institutional relevance," he said. "President Putin's 2024 initiative to strengthen the security of Eurasia and build a continental security architecture is gaining momentum and attracting increasing interest," the minister explained. "The process of forming a Greater Eurasian Partnership is underway. It is a process that began with cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Asean, also taking into account China's New Silk Road Initiative''.

US made proposals for peace in Ukraine, "then backtracked"

During the interview, the Russian foreign minister also spoke about the stalemate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, calling into question the attitude of the United States. Moscow had accepted the US proposals on the conflict made at the Anchorage summit, but today Washington "is no longer ready" to follow up on those initiatives, Lavrov explained. "In Anchorage we accepted the US proposals. To be perfectly clear, it was they who proposed and we who accepted, and the problem should have been solved," Lavrov said, arguing that for Moscow, Washington's position was central, regardless of the reactions of Ukraine and Europe, described as marked by "primitive Russophobia".

Russia: those arrested for the Alexeyev bombing confessed

The two men arrested for the attempted murder of Russian General Vladimir Alexeyev, number two in the military intelligence service, confessed their involvement, according to a statement by the Public Relations Centre of the Russian Federal Security Service (Fsb).

They are Lubomir Korba and Viktor Vasin, accused of taking part in the attack against the Russian Defence Ministry general, who was seriously wounded by gunshots on 6 February in Moscow. According to the version of the FSB, the operation was organised on behalf of the Ukrainian security services (Sbu), with the involvement also of Polish intelligence. The operational profile and background circulated by the FSB describe the enemy of Russia in all possible dimensions: paid by the Ukrainian services, selected by the Polish ones, one of them a supporter of the opposition, in particular of the late Navalny's movement.

According to the official reconstruction, the main material perpetrator, Lubomir Korba, a 65-year-old man born in Soviet Ukraine who became a Russian citizen, was allegedly recruited in August 2025. The FSSB states that the Polish services would have contributed to his selection through his son, Lubosh Korba, a Polish citizen born in 1998 and living in Katowice. After recruitment, Korba was supposed to have undergone shooting training in a firing range near Kiev, and was then transferred to Russia via Moldova and Georgia. For the killing of General Alexeyev, Russian authorities claim, the Ukrainian services allegedly promised a reward of $30,000.

In depositions quoted by the FSB, the man is said to have received a direct order to assassinate Alexeyev in December 2025. The weapon used - a Makarov pistol - was allegedly taken from a hiding place in the Moscow region, together with an electronic key to access the entrance of the building where the general lived. According to the FSB, this key would have been provided by Zinaida Serebritskaya, a resident of the same building as Alexeyev, whom the Russian authorities had previously indicated had fled to Ukraine.

Zelensky: "Over 1400 buildings without heating in Kiev"

Meanwhile, the armed clash on the frontline does not stop, and the energy crisis in the Ukrainian capital continues. More than '1,400 multi-family residential buildings in Kiev are without heating,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today, following the customary meeting held to counter the consequences of Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. The Kherson region is experiencing the greatest difficulties, Zelensky reported, where 'six localities in the region are in a serious energy condition due to continuous drone attacks and, as a result, the circumstances for restoration are extremely difficult'.

'We discussed the situation of nuclear generation with the energy minister in detail. For the Russian military, our nuclear generation facilities - including the infrastructure and networks connected to the power plants - remain constant targets. This calls for a different level of response than hitherto. More protection and communication with partners is needed so that the world does not remain silent in the face of this threat,' noted the Ukrainian leader.(Continued)

Still Russian attacks in the night

During the night, Russian forces attacked and energy infrastructure in Novovolynsk, in the Ukrainian region of Volinia. The town is located five kilometres from the Polish border, reported the mayor of Novovolynsk, Borys Karpus quoted by Rbc Ukraine. "The enemy has launched another attack on a high-voltage substation. The damage is extensive and the substation is not in operation. The State Emergency Service and all relevant services are working at the site of the explosions,' Karpus said. According to reports, more than 80,000 users in the community of Novovolynsk and neighbouring settlements are currently without electricity. It is reported that critical infrastructure in the city is powered by generators, the water supply is managed by the power grid, and some thermal power plants have also been replaced by generators.

Nine people, including a teenage girl, were instead injured in a Russian night attack in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast in eastern Ukraine, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the oblast's military administration, announced on Telegram. "Nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, were wounded in a drone attack in the town of Shakhtarske, Synelnykove district. All victims were hospitalised. A 57-year-old woman is in critical condition. The others are stable,' he wrote, adding that a three-storey residential building caught fire.