These are the important thing developments from day 1,436 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Printed On 30 Jan 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Friday, January 30:
Combating
- A Russian drone assault killed two ladies and a person in Vilniansk in Ukraine’s front-line Zaporizhia area, the pinnacle of the regional navy administration, Ivan Fedorov, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app. The assault additionally destroyed homes after fires broke out, Fedorov mentioned.
- Russian forces launched a complete of 841 assaults on 34 settlements throughout Zaporizhia previously day, Fedorov mentioned in a later put up, with 16 folks injured in these assaults.
- Oleksandr Vilkul, the pinnacle of the Kryvyi Rih regional defence council, mentioned {that a} Russian assault killed an aged girl and injured three folks in Kryvyi Rih metropolis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown southeast of Kharkiv.
- Russian assaults additionally killed one individual in Druzhkivka, within the Donetsk area, and one individual in Khatnie, within the Kharkiv area, native officers mentioned, in keeping with the Kyiv Impartial information outlet.
- The dying toll from a Russian assault on Ukraine’s Odesa on Tuesday has risen to 4, after a person injured within the assault died in hospital on Thursday, head of the Odesa Navy Administration Serhiy Lysak mentioned.
- A Ukrainian drone assault killed a hospital worker on the grounds of the Graivoron hospital, in Russia’s Belgorod area, the regional emergency response headquarters mentioned.
- Russian forces shot down 111 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour interval, the Russian Ministry of Defence mentioned, in keeping with Russia’s TASS state information company.
Power disaster
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned on Telegram that 454 residential buildings stay with out heating in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, with temperatures forecast to drop to -23 levels Celsius (-9.4 levels Fahrenheit) in a single day this week.
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President Zelenskyy mentioned on Thursday he anticipated the implementation of an settlement by Russia to not fireplace on Kyiv and different cities for every week due to the extreme winter climate, and as introduced by United States President Donald Trump.
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“Our groups mentioned this within the United Arab Emirates. We count on the agreements to be applied,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “De-escalation steps contribute to actual progress towards ending the struggle,” he added.
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Trump mentioned earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to not fireplace on Kyiv for every week as a consequence of freezing winter situations.
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“I personally requested President Putin to not fireplace into Kyiv and varied cities for every week, and he agreed to do this,” Trump mentioned at a cupboard assembly, citing the “extraordinary chilly” within the area.
Ceasefire negotiations
- Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Remedy of Prisoners of Struggle confirmed Ukraine received the bodies of 1,000 soldiers from Russia within the newest change of these killed in the course of the struggle.
- Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky additionally confirmed that “inside the framework of the Istanbul agreements, the our bodies of 1,000 lifeless Ukrainian troopers have been transferred to Ukraine”.
- Medinsky mentioned the “our bodies of 38 lifeless Russian troopers have been transferred to Russia”.
- Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned that Moscow has not but seen the ceasefire doc that Ukraine refers to as a 20-point plan, including that he believes it has been “reworked” by Ukraine and its allies. “We nonetheless haven’t seen it in its entirety,” he mentioned.
