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Ukraine January 2025
Zelensky publicly rebukes Europe, urges leaders to 'act now' in withering Davos address — 22 January 2026 (LINK)
— "President Trump is needed," said Zelensky, arguing that a cease-fire with Russia will rely on the support of the U.S. "No security guarantees work without the U.S."
Al Jazeera: Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,428 — 22 January 2026 (LINK)
— Ukraine's Ukrinform news agency said Russian forces dropped 768 guided missiles and high-explosive aerial bombs over the past 10 days in areas of Ukraine's Donetsk region still controlled by Ukrainian authorities, destroying almost all remaining infrastructure, according to the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin.
— Ukrainian forces attacked a port in the village of Volna in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, killing three people and injuring eight, the regional emergency services task force reported, according to Russia's TASS state news agency. Veniamin Kondratyev, Krasnodar regional governor, said earlier on Telegram that the attack caused four oil storage tanks to become "engulfed in flames".
— A military court in Moscow sentenced an Uzbek man to life in prison after finding him guilty of killing top Russian general Igor Kirillov and his assistant in a Ukraine-backed bomb attack in 2024.
U.K. man collects candles from churches and shops and uses the candle wax to make temporary stoves for the military and civilians in Ukraine (LINK) 20 January 2026
Ukrainian drone strikes cut power to hundreds of thousands in Russia-occupied southern Ukraine (LINK) 18 January 2026
Al Jazeera: Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,422 (LINK) 16 January 2026
- Ukraine's Ministry of Energy said that new power outages were affecting customers in the Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions following an overnight Russian attack. Network restrictions remained in place in the capital Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and the Odesa region, the ministry added in a statement.
- Kateryna Pop, spokeswoman for the Kyiv City Military Administration, said that 287 residential buildings remain without heating in Kyiv more than a week after a massive Russian attack damaged infrastructure there, and as temperatures continue to fall to -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit) overnight.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the national government would take over responsibility for Kyiv's energy as the city had not responded quickly enough to the current crisis, according to the Ukrinform news site.
- A Ukrainian attack left close to 87,000 people without electricity in Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, Russian-appointed official Yevhen Balitsky wrote on Telegram.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva told the Reuters news agency during a visit to Kyiv that she expects to ask the fund's executive board to approve a new $8.1bn lending programme for Ukraine within weeks.
- French President Emmanuel Macron said that France is now providing two-thirds of intelligence information to Ukraine, largely replacing the US, which until last year had delivered the majority of those services.
Brussels unveils proposal for €90 billion loan for Ukraine, urging EU lawmakers to approve it fast — (LINK) ground.news: 54 media reports — 14 January 2026 (LINK)
Ukraine-Russia war latest: UK announces Project Nightfall to provide Kyiv with new missiles (LINK) 11 January 2026
— Later on Monday the UN Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss Russia's use of its Oreshnik hypersonic missile just 60 miles from the border of Nato member Poland. Russia has claimed the Oreshnik strike was retaliation for an attempted Ukrainian drone attack on one of Putin's residences, an allegation Kyiv denies.
