11 January – Ukraine announces the capture of two North Korean soldiers during fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast.[1]
17 January – Iran and Russia sign a "comprehensive strategic partnership treaty".[2]
23 January – The Russian spy vessel Kidin is reported to have caught fire off the coast of Syria.[3]
29 January – An illegal logger opens fire at forest rangers trying to arrest him in Usokhi, Kaluga Oblast, killing three rangers and holding two others hostage before committing suicide.[4]
February
6 February – Yury Borisov is dismissed as director-general of Roscosmos by President Putin and is replaced by Gonets head Dmitry Bakanov.[5]
8 February –
An underwater cable in the Baltic Sea owned by Rostelecom is damaged following an "external impact".[6]
At least eight people are injured in a fire at the former Elektrozavod building in Moscow.[7]
9 February – A state of emergency is declared in Sakhalin Oblast after the Chinese cargo vessel An Ying 2 runs aground off the coast of Nevelsky District.[8]
11 February –
The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Russian government had engaged in "a coordinated effort to suppress dissent" over its invasion of Ukraine.[9]
Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained in Russia for drugs charges since 2021, is released and repatriated to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange.[10]
12 February – US President Donald Trump announces the beginning of negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a phone call with President Putin.[11]
13 February –
The FSB says that it had killed several members of a terrorist group plotting an attack on the Pskov train station following a shootout.[12]
Cryptocurrency exchange operator Alexander Vinnik, who had been imprisoned in the United States for a cybercrime conviction, is released and repatriated to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.[14]
17 February – Konstantin Rachalovsky, the deputy governor of Rostov Oblast, is arrested on suspicion of abuse of power over the provision of state subsidies amounting to 155.2 million rubles ($1.7 million) to financially distressed companies that eventually went bankrupt.[15]
18 February – Russia and the United States began official discussions in Saudi Arabia on ending the war in Ukraine.[16]
26 February – Denis Alexeyev, the deputy governor of Vologda Oblast, is arrested along with Kirill Bocharov, head of the Vologda Oblast representative office in Moscow, on suspicion of receiving part of a 100 million ruble ($1.1 million) bribe.[17]
27 February – A man is arrested for throwing a grenade at the entrance to the regional administration office of Samara Oblast in Samara.[18]
28 February – The FSB arrests two church officials on suspicion of plotting to kill Russian Orthodox bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, who is close to Putin.[19]
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