Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,429

These are the cardinal developments from time 1,429 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is wherever things basal connected Friday, January 23:

Fighting

• Two volunteers delivering breadstuff were killed successful a Russian drone onslaught connected their car successful the borderline assemblage of Derhachi successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the caput of the determination subject administration, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, wrote connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Russian forces launched a drone onslaught connected a high-rise residential gathering successful Ukraine’s Dnipro, injuring astatine slightest 7 people, the city’s Mayor Borys Filatov said.
• One idiosyncratic was killed, and 4 were wounded successful Russian glide weaponry attacks connected Komyshuvakha, successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
• A Russian onslaught connected Kryvyi Rih city, successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, injured 12 people, including 4 children, caput of the determination subject administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, said.
• Russian forces changeable down 31 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the aboriginal hours of Thursday, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said, according to a study by Russia’s TASS authorities quality agency.

Sanctions

• The French navy intercepted an lipid tanker successful the Mediterranean Sea that officials said belongs to Russia’s alleged “shadow fleet”, designed to evade planetary sanctions.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said the lipid tanker was “coming from Russia, taxable to planetary sanctions and suspected of flying a mendacious flag”. He added that the cognition was “carried retired successful strict compliance with the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea” and unneurotic with allies.

Energy crisis

• Ukraine’s vigor strategy connected Thursday endured its astir hard time since a wide blackout deed the web successful November 2022, and the concern remains “extremely difficult”, the country’s Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
• Conditions were astir hard successful the superior Kyiv and the surrounding portion and successful the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Shmyhal said, arsenic nighttime temperatures fell to -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit).
• Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 2,600 flat buildings were inactive without vigor 2 days aft the latest overnight Russian attacks, portion 600 buildings person had their heating restored.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian negotiators are connected their mode to the United Arab Emirates for talks with Russian and United States negotiating teams.

• “Our squad is present heading to the Emirates for meetings with some the American and Russian sides,” Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram aft a time of talks astatine the World Economic Forum (WEF) successful Davos, Switzerland. “We are waiting to spot however it goes and volition determine connected the adjacent steps.”

• Russian President Vladimir Putin began a gathering with US envoys Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Josh Gruenbaum precocious connected Thursday to sermon a program to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

• US President Donald Trump again said that some Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy would similar to marque a woody to extremity the astir four-year-old war, aft gathering with Zelenskyy connected the sidelines of the WEF successful Davos.

• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said connected Thursday helium “obviously” had concerns astir Putin being connected Trump’s projected “Board of Peace” successful an interrogation with Channel 4 News. “He is waging warfare connected a European country. They’re raining down bombs connected Ukraine,” Starmer said.

• The narration betwixt the US and the European Union has “taken a large blow” successful the past week, EU overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said successful beforehand of an exigency gathering of the bloc’s leaders connected Thursday.

• “Disagreements that allies person betwixt them, similar Europe and America, are conscionable benefitting our adversaries who are looking and enjoying the view,” Kallas told reporters.

• Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova told reporters that 2 Russian soldiers whose bodies were returned arsenic portion of a captive speech woody with Ukraine precocious past twelvemonth had been alive, without injuries, astatine the clip of their seizure successful May 2025. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report.

Military aid

• Norway’s Defence Minister Tore O Sandvik said that his state has “quickly delivered aerial defence missiles to Ukraine astatine a captious signifier truthful that the NASAMS system tin proceed to support Ukrainian citizens from deadly aerial strikes” successful “cooperation with the United States and others”.