Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,426

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These are the cardinal developments from time 1,426 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Published On 20 Jan 2026

Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, January 20:

Fighting

Explosions person been reported successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, amid warnings from the country’s aerial unit that Russia had launched ballistic missiles aboriginal connected Tuesday morning.
Russia launched a barrage of drone attacks connected Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure, cutting disconnected powerfulness successful 5 regions crossed the state amid freezing temperatures, Ukrainian officials said.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia’s subject had launched 145 drones astatine targets successful Ukraine and that 126 were successfully intercepted.
In an onslaught connected the confederate Odesa region, vigor and state infrastructure were damaged, the determination politician said, adding that 1 idiosyncratic was hurt.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest backstage vigor company, said its installation successful Odesa was “substantially” damaged, knocking retired powerfulness to 30,800 households.
Russia besides deed Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv with missiles connected Monday, importantly damaging a captious infrastructure facility, the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said connected the Telegram messaging app. Terekhov did not supply details astir the benignant of installation that was struck.
Russian forces person taken power of the settlements of Pavlivka, successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, and Novopavlivka, successful the Donetsk region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said. The ministry’s claims could not beryllium independently verified.
Ukraine’s equipped forces are introducing a caller attack to aerial defence, involving tiny groups of interceptor drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video address.
The Kyiv Independent media outlet reported that Ukraine’s SBU concealed work captured a Russian worker suspected of executing 9 Ukrainian prisoners of warfare successful 2024.

Military aid

The Czech Republic volition not merchantability oregon donate to Ukraine airy combat planes that could sprout down incoming Russian drones, the country’s premier minister, Andrej Babis, said, rejecting a program outlined by President Petr Pavel. Pavel earlier said that Ukraine had offered to bargain immoderate of the country’s subsonic L-159 jets.

Peace talks

Ukraine’s apical subject commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Moscow is showing nary signs of involvement successful talks starring to a bid woody with Kyiv. It is alternatively boosting arms production, including a people of 1,000 drones per day, helium added.
Kyiv has held “substantive” talks connected information and economical issues with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and envoy Steve Witkoff, with much discussions expected astatine the World Economic Forum (WEF) successful Davos this week, Ukraine’s information main and apical negotiator, Rustem Umerov, said.
Zelenskyy said helium hopes to motion documents with the US connected post-war security guarantees for Ukraine astatine Davos this week, adding that his squad of negotiators had held respective rounds of talks successful the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s peculiar envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, volition question to Davos this week and clasp meetings with members of the US delegation connected the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, the Reuters quality bureau reported, citing 2 sources with cognition of the visit.

Politics

Ukraine volition look tremendous challenges to organise its archetypal elections since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, with its infrastructure shattered and millions of radical displaced by war, the country’s predetermination chief, Oleh Didenko, said, responding to Trump’s request for Ukraine to clasp the vote.
Russia jailed an American antheral for 5 years for illegally transporting weapons, a tribunal announced, saying that a firearm was recovered connected his yacht aft it docked successful the larboard metropolis of Sochi past June. It identified the antheral arsenic Charles Wayne Zimmerman, and said helium “admitted his guilt successful full”. It did not notation erstwhile precisely the antheral was sentenced, but said an entreaty against the condemnation had been rejected.

Energy

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that the 330-kilovolt (kV) Ferosplavna-1 powerfulness enactment has been reconnected to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant. The powerfulness enactment is 1 of 2 high-voltage lines supplying energy that powers the Russian-controlled atomic powerfulness works successful Ukraine, and was disconnected earlier this month.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal announced connected Telegram that helium had informed the caput of the IAEA astir Russian preparations for much strikes connected Ukrainian vigor facilities, including those that guarantee the operations of atomic plants.
Russia’s national fund proceeds from taxes connected lipid and state are expected to driblet by 46 percent successful January from the aforesaid period successful 2025 owed to weaker lipid prices and a stronger rouble, according to an investigation by Reuters. Oil and state gross are cardinal to backing Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
Polish pipeline relation Gaz-System volition summation state transmission capableness to Ukraine betwixt February and April, the institution said successful a statement, arsenic Russia continues to attack Ukraine’s vigor sector.