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Here are the key events on day 1,064 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Here's the situation on Thursday, January 23:
struggle
- Ukraine's air force said Russia had fired 99 drones into Ukraine overnight in what became a daily volley of strikes. The Air Force reported that Kiev troops destroyed 65 drones, while 30 disappeared from radar. Six regions in Ukraine reported attacks as a result of the drones.
- Russia's Defense Ministry has confirmed that Moscow forces have captured the village of Zapadno in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. The village is on the west bank of the Oskil River, which has long been the front line between the armies of the Kremlin and Kiev.
- Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said Russia has attacked Kiev's energy facilities 1,200 times since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including strikes targeting power generation facilities, distribution channels and gas facilities.
- Russian courts have upheld the life sentence of Alexander Permyakov, the man convicted of seriously injuring Zakhar Prilepin, a pro-Kremlin writer, by blowing up his car in 2023. Prilepin's driver was killed in the bombing.
- Russian media reports that relatives of some 3,000 Russian civilians stranded in the Suja region of Ukraine's occupied Kursk region have launched a coordinated social media campaign calling for help to find their loved ones.
Politics and diplomacy
- Germany's Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) news agency reported that $8.48 billion of the $13.8 billion worth of weapons and military equipment approved for export by Berlin in 2024 was headed to Ukraine.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with German opposition leader Friedrich Merz and discussed “ways to further achieve a just peace for Ukraine.” Zelensky said they also talked about global challenges and the situation on the front line.
- Zelensky also met with several other world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Discussions centered around support for Kiev's defense and security, increased sanctions against Russia, brokering the return of 53 children forcibly taken from Ukraine by Russia, and the possibility of a “lasting and sustainable peace.”
- Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency quoted Finnish President Alexander Stubb as saying in Davos that any peace deal with Ukraine must include both Kiev and European allies, and warned against hasty agreements that could later be seen as a betrayal of sovereignty of Kiev.
- Russia's Interfax news agency reported that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow saw only a small window of opportunity to strike a deal with the new United States administration under President Donald Trump.
- Trump gave his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin an ultimatum to “stop this ridiculous war” with Ukraine “now” or face tariffs and sanctions on “everything Russia sells to the United States.” He threatened Russia's allies with similar consequences.
- Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, responded to Trump's threats by saying Moscow would have to see what Trump meant by a “deal.” Polanski also said that while Trump was not responsible for the US's “malicious anti-Russian” policy, he now had the power to end it.
- Anadolu Agency reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow's war with Ukraine cannot be stopped without addressing and eliminating the root causes. Lavrov reportedly said the Kremlin would only engage in negotiations for “credible, legally binding agreements that would make it impossible to violate them.”
- Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Sibiha, said rebuilding Ukraine's estimated $626 billion in war damage would likely be the “project of the century” and an opportunity for the European Union's economy.
Russian gas and oil
- Moscow-based national daily Kommersant reported that Russian gas supplies could resume to Moldova's separatist enclave of Transnistria with the help of Cyprus-based Ozbor Enterprises. The company is said to have booked about 3.1 million cubic meters per day from the Russian-designed TurkStream gas pipeline for the month of February 1.
- Russian troops must be withdrawn from Transnistria for a permanent solution to end the energy crisis in the enclave, AFP quoted Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Rechan as saying. Recean also reportedly accused the Kremlin of trying to create instability in Moldova and encourage the emergence of a pro-Moscow government.
Regional security
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya discussed concerns about North Korea's “political and security engagement” with Russia, as well as China's support for the Kremlin's defense industrial base.
- This was warned by Kaya Callas, the candidate for EU foreign commissioner “Russia can test the readiness of the EU to defend itself in three to five years,” saying Europeans “need to wake up.”
- UK Defense Secretary John Healy said the Royal Navy had tracked a Russian spy ship gathering intelligence and mapping the UK's “critical underwater infrastructure”.
- “We see you. We know what you are doing and we will not shy away from decisive action to protect this country,” Healy said in a direct warning to Putin.
