Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,419

These are the cardinal developments from time 1,419 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, January 13:

Fighting

• At slightest 2 radical person been killed and 3 others injured arsenic Russia launched attacks connected Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, according to Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

• Russia besides initiated a abstracted rocket onslaught connected the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and aerial defence units person been deployed to repel it, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said connected Telegram. Tymur Tkachenko, the caput of Kyiv’s subject administration, warned residents to instrumentality cover. There were nary contiguous reports connected casualties oregon harm to properties and infrastructure successful the attack.

• Russian drones struck 2 foreign-flagged vessels, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said, the 2nd specified onslaught successful 4 days connected Black Sea shipping. Kuleba said the vessels were sailing nether the flags of Panama and San Marino, and that 1 idiosyncratic was injured.

• Russia attacked vigor infrastructure successful Ukraine’s confederate Odesa region, causing blackouts that affected astatine slightest 33,500 families, Ukraine’s largest backstage vigor steadfast DTEK said, describing the harm arsenic “significant”.

• Emergency crews are struggling to reconstruct vigor and powerfulness to beleaguered Kyiv residents, much than 3 days aft Russian strikes connected vigor infrastructure.

• Kuleba said connected Telegram that 90 percent of Kyiv’s flat buildings person had their heating restored, leaving less than 500 dwellings inactive to beryllium connected. But Mayor Klitschko enactment the fig with nary heating astatine 800, with astir surviving connected the westbound slope of the Dnipro River.

• Last twelvemonth was the deadliest for civilians successful Ukraine since 2022, a grounds driven by intensified hostilities on the beforehand enactment and the expanded usage of long-range weapons, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission successful Ukraine said. Conflict-related unit successful Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 successful 2025, a 31 percent emergence successful the fig of victims from 2024, the show said successful its monthly update.

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the people it deed past week with a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile was a Ukrainian craft repair works successful Lviv. The Lviv State Aviation Repair Plant is located adjacent the Polish border. Russia described the people arsenic disabled.

• At an exigency gathering of the UN Security Council, the United States decried Russia’s usage of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile, calling it an “inexplicable escalation”.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had captured the colony of Novoboykivske successful the Zaporizhia portion of Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• In his regular nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the satellite has to assistance Iranian protesters escaped themselves from the oppressive authorities that “has brought truthful overmuch evil to Ukraine and to different countries”. Iran’s authorities is simply a adjacent state of Russia.
• German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said helium and his US counterpart Marco Rubio had agreed connected the value of a transatlantic confederation to unafraid a lasting bid successful Ukraine.
• Wadephul added that Germany and the US were committed to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which commits subordinate states to emergence to each other’s defence, should 1 authorities travel nether attack.
• The German overseas curate added that, astatine a clip of “uncertainty and crises”, unity wrong NATO “is a wide awesome to Russia that it should not effort to threaten” the alliance.

• Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has called for greater unit connected Moscow. She suggested the European Union should prohibition companies from providing immoderate enactment to Moscow’s lipid and state shipping fleet, present sanctions against Russian fertilisers and halt the export of luxury goods to Russia.

• Norway has announced that it is providing 340 cardinal euros ($397m) successful exigency backing to enactment Ukraine’s vigor assemblage and assistance the authorities support captious services, arsenic portion of its assistance successful 2026.

• Finnish constabulary said they lifted the seizure of a Russia-linked ship, which had been held connected suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecommunications cablegram moving crossed the Gulf of Finland, from Helsinki to Estonia.

• The probe into the Russia-linked vessel volition nevertheless continue. Some of the ship’s unit stay nether a question ban, according to the caput of the probe astatine Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation, Risto Lohi.

Economy

• A US-linked capitalist radical won the rights to make Ukraine’s Dobra lithium deposit successful the cardinal Kirovohrad region, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced connected Telegram. The woody is seen arsenic a trial lawsuit for drafting Western superior into a front-line economy, portion trying to deepen ties with Washington.