These are the cardinal developments from time 1,433 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
Published On 27 Jan 2026
Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, January 27:
Fighting
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At slightest 2 radical were injured aft Russian forces launched a drone and rocket onslaught connected Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The onslaught besides damaged flat buildings, a school, and a kindergarten, helium added.
- Russian drones besides deed a high-rise flat gathering successful Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown southeast of Kharkiv. The caput of the city’s subject administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, said the onslaught triggered a fire, but determination were nary contiguous reports of casualties.
- A Russian drone and rocket onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior damaged parts of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine’s astir celebrated spiritual landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture said successful a statement.
- In Russia, 1 idiosyncratic was killed pursuing a Ukrainian drone onslaught successful the border portion of Belgorod, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said connected the Telegram messaging app.
- Ukraine’s subject said it struck the Slavyansk Eko lipid refinery successful Russia’s Krasnodar portion overnight. The subject said successful a connection that parts of the superior lipid processing installation were hit. There were nary archetypal reports of casualties.
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One idiosyncratic was injured, and 2 concern enterprises caught occurrence successful the metropolis of Slavyansk-on-Kuban – besides successful Russia’s Krasnodar – aft fragments fell from a destroyed drone, the determination emergencies centre said.
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Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that aerial defence systems had intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 34 successful the Krasnodar region.
Military aid
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Ukraine’s interception complaint of Russian missiles and drones has decreased owed to Kyiv having less weapons to support it from incoming attacks. Rutte urged allies to excavation into their stockpiles to assistance support Ukraine.
Humanitarian aid
- Czechs person collected much than $6m successful conscionable 5 days successful a grassroots fundraising effort to bargain generators, heaters and batteries to nonstop to Ukraine, wherever hundreds of thousands of radical are freezing successful sub-zero temperatures aft Russian attacks connected powerfulness plants, the online fundraising inaugural Darek pro Putina (“Gift for Putin”) said.
Ceasefire talks
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Talks betwixt Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are expected to resume connected February 1, Zelenskyy said successful his regular evening address. He urged Ukraine’s allies not to weaken their unit connected Moscow successful beforehand of the expected talks.
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In a abstracted station connected X, Zelenskyy said subject issues were the superior taxable of treatment astatine trilateral talks with the US and Russia implicit the play successful Abu Dhabi, but that governmental issues were besides discussed. He added that preparations are nether mode for caller trilateral meetings.
- The US-brokered trilateral talks successful Abu Dhabi betwixt Russian and Ukrainian negotiators were held successful a “constructive spirit”, but determination was inactive “significant enactment ahead”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists successful Moscow. The talks should beryllium viewed positively contempt these differences, helium added.
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The Kremlin besides said that the contented of territory remained cardinal to Russia erstwhile it came to getting a woody to extremity the fighting, the Russian state’s TASS quality bureau reported. Moscow has insisted that for the warfare to end, Russia indispensable instrumentality implicit each of Ukraine’s eastbound Donbas region.
- German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul denounced Russia’s “stubborn insistence connected the important territorial issue” pursuing the talks successful Abu Dhabi.
Politics
- European Union countries person approved a prohibition connected Russian state imports by precocious 2027, a determination to chopped ties with their erstwhile apical vigor supplier astir 4 years aft Moscow’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine.
- Ukrainian Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal welcomed the ban, saying successful a connection that independency from Russian vigor “is, supra all, astir a harmless and beardown Europe”.
- Germany’s Wadephul said that Russia is investigating European countries’ resilience with hybrid tactics, specified arsenic the damaging of undersea cables, the jamming of GPS signals and the deployment of a shadiness fleet of vessels to interruption sanctions, arsenic its deadly warfare successful Ukraine continues.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest would summon Ukraine’s ambassador implicit what Orban said were attempts by Kyiv to interfere successful a Hungarian parliamentary predetermination owed connected April 12. In caller weeks, Orban has intensified his anti-Ukrainian rhetoric and sought to nexus absorption leader, Peter Magyar, with Brussels and Ukraine.
Pedestrians locomotion past a idiosyncratic with an amputated limb begging astatine a metro presumption during an aerial raid alert successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, connected Monday [Sergei Gapon/AFP]
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