Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,062

Here is the concern connected Tuesday, January 21:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s Air Force claimed it changeable down 93 of 141 drones Russia launched successful attacks overnight. The Air Force besides said that 47 of the drones were “lost” portion 2 returned to Russia.
• Russia said it destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones which had chiefly targeted concern sites successful Russia’s Tatarstan region, located astir 1,000km (about 600 miles) from the Ukrainian border. No victims oregon harm person been reported.
• The politician of Russia’s Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said 14 Ukrainian drones were neutralised successful the region, which borders Ukraine. He claimed Kyiv besides fired 4 United States-made HIMARS missiles astatine targets successful Bryansk.
• Authorities successful Moscow launched an probe aft video footage emerged that showed a subject policeman beating Russian soldiers bound for Ukraine with a baton and utilizing stun guns connected them. The perpetrators of the unit person been identified and an probe is nether way, authorities said.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops person captured 2 villages, Shevchenko and Novoiehorivka, successful eastbound Ukraine. Shevchenko lies a fewer kilometres from Pokrovsk, a cardinal proviso hub for Kyiv’s troops.

• Russia has levelled coercion charges against United Kingdom nationalist James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, who was captured portion warring with Ukrainian forces successful Russia’s Kursk region. Accused of acting arsenic a “mercenary”, Anderson faces up to 35 years successful a Russian prison.
• Kyiv reportedly attacked a Russian-occupied municipality successful Ukraine’s southbound Kherson, sidesplitting 2 radical and injuring much than a twelve others, according to reports. The region’s Russian-installed governor, Vladimir Saldo, accused Ukraine of firing “cluster munitions ” adjacent a schoolhouse and said children were among those wounded.
• Ukraine’s State Investigation Bureau detained 2 generals and a colonel for alleged “inaction” and failing to support against a Russian violative that allowed parts of eastbound Kharkiv to beryllium captured successful 2024.
• A wounded North Korean worker captured by Ukraine told interrogators connected camera that Pyongyang’s forces warring for Moscow are suffering large losses. Although Moscow has not acknowledged the deployment of North Korean soldiers to combat successful the Kursk portion connected behalf of Russia, the worker gave a elaborate relationship of the troops ‘ arrival, grooming and enactment routines.

Politics & Diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Donald Trump connected his inauguration arsenic US president.
• Zelenskyy said Trump’s instrumentality to the White House was an “opportunity” for “just peace” successful Ukraine.
• Putin said helium was “open to dialogue” with Ukraine nether Donald Trump’s administration. He besides said immoderate colony should guarantee “lasting bid based connected respect for the morganatic involvement of each people”.
• French President Emmanuel Macron warned that Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine would not extremity “tomorrow oregon the time after” successful effect to Trump’s pledge to extremity the warfare quickly.

Russian Gas & Oil

• Transnistria’s person Vadim Krasnoselsky said the separatist enclave was acceptable to bargain state from Moldova. He said they sent a missive to Moldovagaz connected Saturday but had yet to person a response.
• The Finnish Border Guard said Russia’s lipid shipments via the Baltic Sea person dropped by astir 10 percent successful the past 4 months owed to European Union sanctions connected Russian lipid and state exports.

Firefighters enactment astatine the tract of a damaged metro presumption aft a Russian rocket onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected January 18, 2025[Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]

Humanitarian Support

• The Ukrainian authorities announced plans to ramp up efforts to promote refugees successful Germany to instrumentality home, including mounting up “unity hubs” successful Berlin and different locations aboriginal to assistance with jobs, lodging and acquisition opportunities. Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov said a important fig of Ukrainians were “seriously considering” returning home.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies