Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,438

Here is wherever things basal connected Sunday, February 1:

Fighting

• Russian attacks connected Ukraine killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 7 others successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the country’s exigency service. High-rise buildings, homes, shops and cafes were besides damaged.
• Another idiosyncratic was wounded by shelling successful the Zaporizhia region, the work said, with a blast besides destroying 3 residential buildings and 12 homes.
• In the Donetsk region, astatine slightest 2 radical were killed, and 5 much were wounded, successful 13 abstracted Russian attacks crossed aggregate districts, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• A full of 172 people, including 35 children, were evacuated from the beforehand line, Filashkin said.
• Russian strikes deed authorities railway infrastructure successful the Zaporizhia and Dnipro regions, a maneuver Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was intended to “cut our cities disconnected from 1 another”.
• In total, 303 combat clashes took spot passim Saturday, Ukraine’s General Staff wrote connected Telegram, tallying 38 aerial strikes, 119 guided bombs, 2,510 kamikaze drones and 2,437 attacks connected settlements and troops.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said connected Saturday that its troops captured ⁠the villages ​of Petrivka, ‍in Ukraine’s southeastern ‍Zaporizhzhia region, and ⁠Toretske, successful the eastbound ​Donetsk ‌region. Al Jazeera could not verify the claim.
• Russia’s TASS authorities quality bureau besides claimed that Russian forces had taken power of astatine slightest 24 Ukrainian settlements since the commencement of the year, the bulk of which were successful the Zaporizhia region.
• Two radical were wounded successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a car successful Russia’s Belgorod region, TASS reported.

Energy

• Parts of Ukraine, including astatine slightest 3,500 buildings successful Kyiv, faced a blackout passim Saturday aft a nonaccomplishment connected interconnection lines with Moldova, officials reported.
• The Kyiv metro closed down, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, on with the capital’s h2o and energy supplies, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote connected Telegram.
• Although the capital’s h2o supplies had returned by astir 10:30pm section clip (20:30 GMT), vigor workers were continuing to reconstruct vigor to astir 2,600 houses, Klitschko said.
• Ukraine is investigating the stoppage, but “as of now, determination is nary confirmation of outer interference oregon a cyberattack”, the president said. “Most indications constituent to weather: crystal buildup connected the lines and automatic shutdowns.”
• At the petition of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, SpaceX has temporarily restricted operations of its Starlink systems successful Ukraine to forestall Russian drone attacks, Serhii Beskrestnov, exertion advisor to the defence minister, announced connected Facebook.
• “I apologise erstwhile again to those who person been temporarily affected by the measures taken, but for the information of the country, these are present precise important and indispensable actions,” Beskrestnov wrote.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff said that helium had “productive and constructive meetings” with Russian peculiar envoy Kirill Dmitriev successful Florida.
• “We are encouraged by this gathering that Russia is moving toward securing bid successful Ukraine,” Witkoff said, adding that helium was “grateful” for US President Donald Trump’s “critical enactment successful seeking a durable and lasting peace”.
• US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and White House elder advisor Josh Gruenbaum besides attended the talks.
• In his nightly address, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is “in regular interaction with the US side” and is “waiting for them to supply specifics connected further meetings”, expected to instrumentality spot adjacent week.
• “Ukraine is acceptable to enactment successful each effectual formats,” helium added. “What matters is the results, and that meetings happen.”
• Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha spoke with Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein Sabine Monauni, discussing “developments successful the bid negotiations and urgent needs of Ukraine’s vigor system”, Sybiha wrote connected X.
• “We besides paid peculiar attraction to further sanctions unit connected Russia and associated planetary efforts to clasp it to account,” Sybiha said.