Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,439

Here is wherever things basal connected Monday, February 1:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught connected a autobus carrying miners successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk portion killed astatine slightest 12 people, according to officials.
• Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal denounced the onslaught arsenic a “cynical and targeted” onslaught connected vigor workers. Their employer, DTEK, said the victims were finishing a shift.
• Another Russian drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro killed a antheral and a woman, portion 9 radical were wounded successful Russian attacks connected a maternity ward and a residential neighbourhood successful Zaporizhzhia, officials said. Among those injured were 2 women undergoing aesculapian examination.
• In a station connected X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of attempting to disrupt logistics and connectivity betwixt Ukrainian cities and communities done its drone, weaponry and rocket attacks. He said Russia utilized much than 980 onslaught drones, astir 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and 2 missiles against Ukraine.
• Nearly 700 flat buildings stay without heating successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, owed to erstwhile Russian attacks connected the country’s vigor infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said, arsenic a caller question of bitter acold swept crossed overmuch of the country.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces gained power implicit the colony of Zelene successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, and the colony of Sukhetske successful the Donetsk region, according to the TASS quality agency. The ministry added that Russian forces deed facilities of transport infrastructure utilized successful the interests of the Ukrainian army.
• Tech billionaire Elon Musk said moves by his SpaceX institution to halt Russia’s “unauthorised” usage of its internet strategy Starlink look to person worked, aft Ukrainian officials reported uncovering Starlink terminals connected long-range drones utilized successful Russian attacks.
• Ukrainian Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov said Kyiv was processing a strategy that would let lone authorised Starlink terminals to enactment connected Ukrainian territory.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy said a caller circular of trilateral talks betwixt Russian, Ukrainian and US officials connected a Washington-drafted program to extremity the astir four-year warfare has been postponed to February 4 and 5 successful the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.
• Dmitry Medvedev, the lawman president of Russia’s Security Council, praised US President Donald Trump’s “brash” benignant arsenic “effective” successful seeking peace, but added that Moscow had seen nary hint of atomic submarines that Trump claimed helium had moved to Russian shores.
• Medvedev added successful his interrogation with the Reuters and TASS quality agencies that Trump “wants to spell down successful past arsenic a peacemaker – and helium is truly trying”, which explains “why contacts with Americans person go overmuch much productive”.
• Medvedev besides said that European powers had failed to decision Russia successful Ukraine, but had inflicted terrible economical harm connected themselves by trying to bash so.
• Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu held talks with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi successful Beijing, with China’s apical diplomat saying that bilateral relations betwixt the 2 countries could “break caller ground” this year.
• Wang besides told Shoigu that China and Russia indispensable enactment unneurotic to uphold multilateralism successful a clip of “turmoil”, and “advocate for an adjacent and orderly multipolar world”.
• The US and Russia’s New START pact, the last pact successful the satellite that restricted atomic limb deployment, is acceptable to expire connected Thursday, and with it, restrictions connected the 2 apical atomic powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested successful September a one-year hold of New START, but small has been heard from Trump since helium indicated past twelvemonth that an hold “sounds similar a bully idea”.

Russian exigency members enactment connected the ruins of a house, which was destroyed during what Russian-installed authorities called a caller Ukrainian drone attack, successful the colony of Sartana successful the Russian-occupied country of Ukraine’s Donetsk portion [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]