Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,423

Here is wherever things basal connected Saturday, January 17 :

Fighting

• Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, sidesplitting 2 women and injuring six people, the caput of the determination administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, wrote connected Facebook.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces seized 5 settlements successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia portion successful the past week, including Zakotnoye and Zhovtnevoye successful the past 24 hours, Russia’s TASS authorities quality bureau reports.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry acknowledged its forces attacked Ukrainian vigor infrastructure and subject facilities 7 times implicit the past week, including 1 cognition described arsenic a large onslaught against its neighbour.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed a antheral successful Russian-occupied Kherson, Moscow’s appointed authoritative successful the region, Volodymyr Saldo, said, according to TASS.
• Ukrainian attacks near 68,000 households without energy successful Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, TASS besides reported, citing section Russian-appointed official, Yevhen Balitsky.
• Russia and Ukraine connected Friday agreed to a localised ceasefire to let repairs connected the past remaining backup powerfulness enactment astatine the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
• Work connected the powerfulness line, which was damaged and disconnected arsenic a effect of subject enactment connected January 2, should commencement “in the coming days”, the United Nations atomic watchdog said successful a statement.
• ‍Russian Security Council lawman president Dmitry Medvedev said that 422,704 radical had signed ⁠contracts with the Russian ​Armed Forces past year, authorities ‍news agencies reported. The fig of sign-ups is little than successful 2024, ‍when astir 450,000 ⁠people signed contracts to articulation the Russian army.

Ukraine vigor crisis

• Children crossed Ukraine hazard hypothermia successful freezing temperatures arsenic exigency stocks of powerfulness generators tally debased pursuing Russian attacks connected vigor infrastructure, planetary assistance agencies said connected Friday.
• Almost the full Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol, which is presently occupied by Russian forces, was left without electricity pursuing an explosion, Petro Andriushchenko, caput of the Center for the Study of Occupation, said connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 67 flat buildings stay without vigor successful Ukraine’s superior Kyiv, much than a week aft a Russian onslaught near 6,000 apartments without heating, arsenic temperatures proceed to autumn to -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit) overnight.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that “severe upwind conditions and frost” are continuing to complicate efforts to reconstruct vigor and energy pursuing Russian attacks, successful an update shared connected Facebook.
• Svyrydenko said that 17 electrical substations are present being powered by generators, arsenic repair enactment continues and that 1,300 tents person been deployed successful the Ukrainian superior Kyiv, wherever galore households inactive stay without heating.
• Curfew restrictions person been relaxed successful places wherever the vigor exigency is ongoing, truthful that radical tin entree shelters with heating wherever needed, the premier curate said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to Svyrydenko’s updates, said that tens of thousands of radical are moving to reconstruct energy and vigor crossed the country.
• Zelenskyy besides said that helium spoke with British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and thanked him for the United Kingdom’s determination to supply an “energy enactment package” for Ukraine.
• The UK announced connected Friday that it would supply 20 cardinal British pounds ($26.7m) “of caller enactment … for captious vigor infrastructure repairs successful Ukraine arsenic Russia’s barbaric attacks connected guiltless civilians intensify”.

Peace talks

• A Ukrainian delegation is en way to the United States for talks with Washington connected information guarantees and a post-war betterment package, Zelenskyy said connected Friday, expressing anticipation the documents could beryllium signed connected the sidelines of the World Economic Forum successful Davos adjacent week.
• During the talks, ⁠Kyiv’s squad besides hopes to get clarity from the US connected the Russian stance towards US-backed diplomatic efforts to extremity the astir ​four-year war, Zelenskyy told a quality league successful Kyiv alongside visiting Czech President Petr Pavel.
• The European Commission is considering ways to let Ukraine’s speedy accession to the European Union arsenic portion of a bid woody with Russia, but without giving Kyiv afloat rank rights, which would lone beryllium “earned” aft modulation periods, EU officials told the Reuters quality agency.

Military aid

• President Zelenskyy said connected Friday that allied supplies of aerial defence systems and missiles were insufficient and warned Russia was preparing caller monolithic strikes. He said it was important that allied countries heed Ukraine’s requests for further supplies.
• The ‌Czech Republic is acceptable to supply Ukraine with combat ‍planes soon ‍that tin sprout down incoming drones, President Pavel told Zelenskyy successful Kyiv connected Friday. Pavel did not springiness specifics, but 2 years agone ⁠said Czech-made subsonic L-159 combatant jets could beryllium transferred to ​Ukraine.

Regional security

• Five men person been charged successful Poland with taking portion successful a Russian-run sabotage crippled to nonstop explosive parcels to the UK, the US, Canada and different destinations, and volition look beingness sentences if convicted, prosecutors said ⁠on Friday.
• The 4 Ukrainian citizens and 1 Russian were charged “with acting … connected behalf of the quality ​services of the Russian Federation”, the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office said successful a statement.
• Lithuanian prosecutors charged six overseas nationals accused of readying an arson onslaught successful 2024 connected a institution producing subject instrumentality for Ukraine, successful a crippled believed to person been ordered by Russia’s subject quality agency, the GRU.
• Those charged see nationals of Spain, Colombia, Cuba, Russia and Belarus, arsenic good arsenic a dual Spanish-Colombian citizen. The institution manufactures mobile radio-frequency investigation stations for the Ukrainian equipped forces.

Politics and diplomacy

• The Kremlin said Friday it considered calls by immoderate European states to resume dialog with Russia arsenic “positive”, aft French and Italian leaders called for re-engagement with Moscow connected Ukraine.
• Dialogue betwixt the EU and Russia has been virtually frozen since Moscow launched its full-scale violative connected Ukraine successful 2022, with the bloc imposing immense sanctions and question restrictions connected Russia.
• A tribunal successful Kyiv released former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko connected bail connected Friday pending a proceedings to find whether she paid members of Ukraine’s parliament to sway their voting. The 65-year-old stalwart of Ukrainian politics, who has denied the charges and said the lawsuit is politically motivated, served arsenic premier curate doubly aft 2005.