Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,431

Here is wherever things basal connected Sunday, January 25:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched another large attack connected Ukraine overnight connected Saturday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and wounding 4 successful the capital, Kyiv, and leaving 1.2 cardinal properties without powerfulness nationwide, according to officials.
• Kyiv’s subject medication reported strikes successful astatine slightest 4 districts successful the superior and said a aesculapian installation was among the buildings damaged. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Russia targeted the superior and 4 regions successful the country’s northbound and east.
• Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the worst-affected successful the superior was the northeastern suburb of Troyeshchyna, wherever 600 buildings were without power, h2o and heat.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia unleashed 375 drones and 21 missiles, including 2 of its seldom deployed Tsirkon ballistic missiles.
• At slightest 30 people, including a child, were besides wounded during the aforesaid onslaught successful the country’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 25 drones had deed respective districts successful the city. Among those struck was a dormitory for displaced radical and 2 aesculapian facilities, including a maternity hospital, Terekhov wrote connected Telegram.
• Ukrainian Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal wrote connected Telegram precocious connected Saturday that much than 800,000 Kyiv households were inactive without power, arsenic were a further 400,000 successful the Chernihiv region, northbound of the capital.

• Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said much than 3,200 buildings successful Kyiv remained without heating successful the precocious evening, down from 6,000 successful the morning. Night-time temperatures were hovering astir -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit).

• Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha denounced the onslaught arsenic “barbaric” successful a connection posted connected X. He accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of acting “cynically” for launching the onslaught amid United States-led trilateral talks connected the warfare successful the United Arab Emirates.
• In Russia, Ukrainian forces launched a “massive” onslaught connected the borderline portion of Belgorod connected Saturday, damaging vigor infrastructure, but causing nary casualties. Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov described the incidental arsenic “the astir monolithic shelling of the municipality of Belgorod”.
• Gladkov said the onslaught damaged “energy sites” and that fragments of a downed drone triggered a occurrence successful a courtyard of a building. Reports from the country besides said the shelling and sounds of explosions had gone connected for immoderate time.

• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces had completed the takeover of the colony of Starytsya successful Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, adjacent to the borderline with Russia.

• The General Staff of Ukraine’s subject said Russian forces had launched six attacks connected an country including Starytsya. But it made nary acknowledgement that the colony had been captured by Russian forces.

Diplomacy

• Ukraine and Russia ended their 2nd time of US-brokered talks successful Abu Dhabi without a bid deal, with much talks expected adjacent weekend, amid the monolithic Russian strikes crossed Ukraine.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected X pursuing the gathering that “the cardinal focus” of the discussions was “the imaginable parameters for ending the war”, but helium did not accidental if the negotiators were adjacent to a deal.
• More discussions are expected adjacent Sunday successful Abu Dhabi, according to a US authoritative who spoke to reporters instantly aft the talks. The official, who requested anonymity, said negotiators “saw a batch of respect” during the discussions, “because they were truly looking to find solutions”.
• The US authoritative besides voiced hopes for further talks, perchance successful Moscow oregon Kyiv, beyond adjacent week’s discussions successful Abu Dhabi, adding that the adjacent measurement would beryllium a imaginable bilateral treatment betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy, oregon a trilateral gathering that includes US President Donald Trump.
• An unnamed UAE authorities spokesperson told the Reuters quality bureau that determination was face-to-face engagement betwixt Ukraine and Russia successful Abu Dhabi – uncommon successful the astir four-year-old warfare triggered by Russia’s full-scale penetration – and said negotiators tackled “outstanding elements” of Trump’s bid framework.

• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs besides hinted astatine the prospects of further talks with Ukrainian delegations successful Istanbul aft negotiations successful Abu Dhabi, adding that Moscow remains unfastened to a continuation of dialogue, the Russian authorities RIA quality bureau reported.

Residents basal successful enactment to capable bottles with drinking water, during a powerfulness blackout aft captious civilian infrastructure was deed by Russian rocket and drone attacks successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]