18 February 2024 in Russo-Ukrainian war
- Explosions rang out in Kharkiv
- Explosions rang out in Poltava Oblast
- Biden: The Armed Forces were forced to withdraw from Avdiivka due to a lack of ammunition and the inaction of the US Congress
- ISW: Russia captured Avdiivka because it was able to establish air superiority for the first time
- Bloomberg: Britain and the US plan to provide Ukraine with thousands of drones that will be controlled by artificial intelligence
- In Poltava Oblast, a drone struck an infrastructure object this night
- Air defense forces shot down another plane, a missile and 12 "Shaheeds"
- The Armed Forces reported the defeat of the Russian offensive in the Zaporizhzhia direction
- An explosion occurred at an industrial facility in Lviv
- Italian Foreign Minister: Ukraine should be in NATO, but after the end of the war
- Rutte to Europeans: Enough whining about Trump
- The head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry assured that Beijing does not sell lethal weapons to Russia
- German Defense Minister: Rejection of aid to Ukraine may harm the US economy
- NYT: Blinken addressed representatives of China and India regarding Russian nuclear weapons in space
- Germany has already collected more than 500 pieces of evidence of war crimes in Ukraine
- The Russians are actively storming the positions of the Armed Forces on the left bank of the Kherson Region
- Borrell: If we had wavered less in our support for Ukraine, the war would have been different
- Bloomberg: Munich was dominated by pessimism and doubts about the role of the US in protecting Europe
- In the afternoon, Polish farmers tried to block the movement of trains on the border between Poland and Ukraine
- ISW: Delayed Western support helped Russia launch a three-pronged offensive at once
- The Russians became more active in the Mariinsky and Kherson directions
- The Hungarian government refused to meet with the US senators who came to Budapest
- The Armed Forces destroyed 1,290 invaders and an aircraft in a day