Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,063

Here is the concern connected Wednesday, January 22:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 4 missiles and 131 drones towards Ukraine overnight. The Air Force besides said that 72 of the drones were destroyed portion 59 disappeared without reaching their targets.
• Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said its troops intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones successful six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were downed successful Voronezh where, according to the region’s Governor Aleksandr Gusev, falling debris started a blaze conscionable six days aft remnants of different intercepted drone triggered an earlier fire. No injuries were reported.
• Kyiv’s subject claimed work for attacking an aviation manufacturing works successful Russia’s Smolensk portion wherever “combat aircraft[s] are being modernised and manufactured”, arsenic good arsenic an onslaught connected Voronezh which resulted successful a substance depot fire. Ukraine’s General Staff said the attacks were coordinated betwixt drone units and peculiar forces.
• Russian authorities quality bureau TASS said Moscow’s forces had seized eastbound Ukraine’s Vovkove village, conscionable 10km (6.2 miles) southwest of Pokrovsk city, a cardinal proviso hub for Kyiv’s troops. Moscow’s service besides captured Shevchenko earlier, different colony adjacent to the hub, TASS reported.
• Russia’s Orenburg determination authorities told residents to instrumentality structure from a imaginable Ukrainian drone attack. Russian strategical rocket unit sites are located successful the region.

• The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it detained the Ukrainian army’s main psychiatrist implicit alleged corruption. The fishy is accused of failing to disclose astir $1m successful “unjustified assets”, which authorities judge were accumulated since the Russian full-scale penetration of Ukraine began.
• Russia’s Army Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov visited a vessel part and a motorised firearm brigade warring adjacent the Ukrainian proviso hub successful Pokrovsk. Footage showed Gerasimov arriving successful a chopper and awarding medals to soldiers.
• Moscow’s aerial defence units destroyed 7 Ukrainian drones implicit Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine successful 2014, arsenic good arsenic 9 implicit Rostov successful confederate Russia. No casualties oregon harm were reported.
• Some 229 Ukrainian civilians inactive stay successful the metropolis of Chasiv Yar, which is nether dense Russian fire, the AFP quality bureau quoted a Kyiv subject spokesperson arsenic saying. Many of those inactive successful the metropolis are either aged oregon disabled, the AFP reported.

Politics & Diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump said helium planned to conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin and told reporters that Putin was “destroying Russia” by refusing to onslaught a ceasefire woody with Ukraine. Trump said helium thought “Russia’s going to beryllium successful large trouble” and expressed interest for Moscow’s economy.
• Trump warned Putin that helium would enforce caller sanctions connected Russia if the Kremlin refused to negociate a ceasefire woody with Ukraine. Trump besides said the US was looking into sending weapons to Ukraine but added that the European Union should bash much to enactment Kyiv.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with Putin during which the brace discussed the outlook for a imaginable bid woody to extremity Moscow’s warfare with Ukraine, Kremlin overseas argumentation adjutant Yuri Ushakov said. The 2 leaders besides touched connected issues relating to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, Syria and Taiwan, Ushakov said.
• Turkish quality bureau Anadolu Ajansi quoted Ushakov arsenic saying that the Trump medication had yet to interaction Moscow regarding a meeting. “We are ready,” helium reportedly said.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland, told delegates that Europe indispensable found itself arsenic a beardown planetary leader, make a associated defence policy, and beryllium consenting to summation defence spending to warrant bid and information for itself and others.
• In his speech, Zelenskyy besides questioned Trump’s committedness to NATO and European security, adding that Ukraine was moving to acceptable up a gathering with the US president.

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not bow to Russian demands of downsizing Kyiv’s subject capableness successful immoderate imaginable aboriginal bid agreement. “This is what helium wants. We volition not let this to happen,” Zelenskyy said successful Davos.
• Zelenskyy besides told delegates successful Davos that a minimum of 200,000 European peacekeepers would beryllium needed arsenic portion of immoderate colony to extremity the warfare with Russia. “Otherwise, it’s nothing,” helium said.
• TASS reported that Putin held a telephone telephone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. They are said to person discussed associated projects betwixt some countries and the concern successful the Middle East and Ukraine.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies