These are the important thing developments from day 1,431 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Printed On 25 Jan 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Sunday, January 25:
Combating
- Russian forces launched another major attack on Ukraine in a single day on Saturday, killing at the least one particular person and wounding 4 within the capital, Kyiv, and leaving 1.2 million properties with out energy nationwide, based on officers.
- Kyiv’s army administration reported strikes in at the least 4 districts within the capital and stated a medical facility was among the many buildings broken. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated Russia focused the capital and 4 areas within the nation’s north and east.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated the worst-affected within the capital was the northeastern suburb of Troyeshchyna, the place 600 buildings have been with out energy, water and warmth.
- Ukraine’s Air Drive stated Russia unleashed 375 drones and 21 missiles, together with two of its hardly ever deployed Tsirkon ballistic missiles.
- At the very least 30 individuals, together with a baby, have been additionally wounded throughout the identical assault within the nation’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv. Mayor Ihor Terekhov stated 25 drones had hit a number of districts within the metropolis. Amongst these struck was a dormitory for displaced individuals and two medical services, together with a maternity hospital, Terekhov wrote on Telegram.
- Ukrainian Minister of Vitality Denys Shmyhal wrote on Telegram late on Saturday that greater than 800,000 Kyiv households have been nonetheless with out energy, as have been an additional 400,000 within the Chernihiv area, north of the capital.
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Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba stated greater than 3,200 buildings in Kyiv remained with out heating within the late night, down from 6,000 within the morning. Evening-time temperatures have been hovering round -10 levels Celsius (14 levels Fahrenheit).
- Ukrainian Minister of Overseas Affairs Andrii Sybiha denounced the assault as “barbaric” in an announcement posted on X. He accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of performing “cynically” for launching the assault amid United States-led trilateral talks on the struggle within the United Arab Emirates.
- In Russia, Ukrainian forces launched a “huge” assault on the border area of Belgorod on Saturday, damaging vitality infrastructure, however inflicting no casualties. Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov described the incident as “probably the most huge shelling of the city of Belgorod”.
- Gladkov stated the assault broken “vitality websites” and that fragments of a downed drone triggered a fireplace in a courtyard of a constructing. Reviews from the realm additionally stated the shelling and sounds of explosions had gone on for a while.
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The Russian Ministry of Defence stated its forces had accomplished the takeover of the village of Starytsya in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv area, near the border with Russia.
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The Common Employees of Ukraine’s army stated Russian forces had launched six assaults on an space together with Starytsya. Nevertheless it made no acknowledgement that the village had been captured by Russian forces.
Diplomacy
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Ukraine and Russia ended their second day of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi and not using a peace deal, with extra talks anticipated subsequent weekend, amid the large Russian strikes throughout Ukraine.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X following the assembly that “the central focus” of the discussions was “the doable parameters for ending the struggle”, however he didn’t say if the negotiators have been near a deal.
- Extra discussions are anticipated subsequent Sunday in Abu Dhabi, based on a US official who spoke to reporters instantly after the talks. The official, who requested anonymity, stated negotiators “noticed a number of respect” in the course of the discussions, “as a result of they have been actually seeking to discover options”.
- The US official additionally voiced hopes for additional talks, probably in Moscow or Kyiv, past subsequent week’s discussions in Abu Dhabi, including that the following step could be a doable bilateral dialogue between Putin and Zelenskyy, or a trilateral assembly that features US President Donald Trump.
- An unnamed UAE authorities spokesperson informed the Reuters information company that there was face-to-face engagement between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi – uncommon within the virtually four-year-old struggle triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion – and stated negotiators tackled “excellent components” of Trump’s peace framework.
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The Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs additionally hinted on the prospects of extra talks with Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul after negotiations in Abu Dhabi, including that Moscow stays open to a continuation of dialogue, the Russian state RIA information company reported.
