These are the important thing developments from day 1,425 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Printed On 18 Jan 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, January 19:
Preventing
- Russian assaults killed three folks, together with a 20-year-old girl, and injured 11 others in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
- In Ukraine’s Kherson area, two folks had been killed, and one individual was injured, as Russian forces launched assaults utilizing drones, air strikes and shelling, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated on Telegram on Sunday.
- Six folks had been additionally injured in Russian assaults on Dnipropetrovsk, and 5 folks had been injured in Sumy, native officers stated, in line with the Kyiv Unbiased.
- One individual was killed and one other wounded in a drone strike on the border village of Nechaivka within the Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, Moscow-installed Governor Yevgeny Balitsky stated on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian assault killed a girl and injured a person in Russia’s Belgorod area, the regional activity pressure reported on Telegram.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated that it shot down 140 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour interval, in line with Russia’s TASS state information company.
Vitality disaster
- Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi stated that “essential restore works” had begun on an “important backup line” connecting Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to the grid, “underneath one other IAEA-brokered ceasefire”.
- “A Ukrainian staff is conducting the repairs, with an IAEA staff on the bottom monitoring progress”, Grossi stated on X.
- Russian shelling broken an power facility in Ukraine’s Chernihiv area, leaving houses with out electrical energy, the regional electrical energy distribution firm stated on Telegram.
- Greater than 200,000 shoppers within the Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area had been left with out electrical energy on Sunday, Balitsky stated on Telegram, after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Chief Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov stated that Ukrainian and Russian representatives assembly in Miami, Florida, over the previous two days mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine “intimately”, with “a deal with sensible mechanisms for his or her implementation”.
- US negotiators current included Stephen Witkoff, Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Military Daniel Driscoll, and White Home staffer Josh Gruenbaum, Umerov stated, including that talks are set to proceed in Davos, Switzerland.
- Kremlin funding envoy Kirill Dmitriev celebrated US President Donald Trump imposing 10 p.c tariffs on European nations for sending troops to defend Greenland, as Trump continues to threaten the self-governing Danish territory and NATO member. “Transatlantic unity is over,” Dmitriev stated within the publish, “Leftist, globalist EU/UK elites failed,” he added, earlier than directing particular criticism at European leaders, together with EU international coverage chief Kaja Kallas, in a stream of posts.
- Kallas, in her personal publish on X, stated that China and Russia “are those who profit from divisions amongst Allies”, including that it was essential to not let the dispute over Greenland “distract us from our core activity of serving to to finish Russia’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine”.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated a US invasion of Greenland “would make [Russian President Vladimir] Putin the happiest man on earth”, as a result of it will “legitimise his tried invasion of Ukraine”, in an interview with the La Vanguardia newspaper, revealed on Sunday.
