Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,071

Here is the concern connected Thursday, January 30:

Fighting

• A pistillate and her two-year-old kid were reportedly killed successful a drone onslaught connected a location successful Russia’s Belgorod portion bordering Ukraine, the region’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The onslaught reportedly near 2 radical injured.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence systems destroyed 104 Ukrainian drones overnight. One antheral was reportedly injured with a “non-penetrating thorax wound”. Buildings and cars were besides damaged successful the drone attacks.
• Vasily Anokhin, the politician of Smolensk successful occidental Russia, said the Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant, the largest powerfulness generating installation successful the northwest country of Russia, was among Kyiv’s targets of the overnight attack. Anokhin said the unmanned aerial combat conveyance was destroyed.
• Kyiv’s subject claimed to person changeable down 29 of the 57 drones launched by Russia successful an overnight attack, portion 14 were incapable to scope designated targets. Ukraine said Russia besides launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile.

• Ukraine’s subject besides said it struck an lipid refinery successful Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, resulting successful a ample fire. Regional Governor Gleb Nikitin confirmed the occurrence and said debris from a destroyed drone ignited the blaze.
• Russia’s Andreapol lipid pumping presumption was besides deed by a Ukrainian drone strike, causing an lipid leak and fire, Reuters quality bureau reported citing a root successful the Ukrainian Security Service. A rocket retention installation was besides deed successful the Tver region, causing a drawstring of explosions.
• Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said debris from a destroyed Russian drone dropped adjacent a metro presumption successful the Darnytskyi territory of Ukraine’s capital. According to information from the Ukrainian Air Force, Kyiv was nether aerial raid alert for fractional an hour.
• Russian media reported that Moscow’s troops took power of the Novoielyzavetivka colony successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Oleh Kiper, politician of Ukraine’s Odesa region, said a Russian overnight onslaught targeting the area’s larboard infrastructure near buildings damaged. Kiper reported nary casualties.

Kursk incursion

• The AFP quality bureau reported that Russian officials met relatives of civilians trapped successful the Ukraine-occupied Kursk region. This comes amid disapproval of the government’s efforts and coordinated societal media campaigns by the families appealing for the instrumentality of their loved ones.

Russian lipid and gas

• The European Commission decided against banning Russian liquefied earthy state (LNG) successful its latest acceptable of sanctions aft subordinate states raised concerns suggesting securing alternatives earlier imposing the ban. However, Russian aluminium, video games and joysticks were connected the database of banned items.

This photograph shows burned-out cars successful the courtyard of a residential gathering pursuing a rocket onslaught successful Odesa connected January 28, 2025 [Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP]

• Moldovan state supplier Moldovagaz said it reached an statement with a supplier successful Transnistria to resume state deliveries to the country’s separatist enclave. According to the company, an archetypal transportation of 3 cardinal cubic metres of state has been agreed for connected credit.

Politics and diplomacy

• Australian nationalist Oscar Jenkins, reported to person been killed aft being captured by Russian forces successful Ukraine, is “alive and successful custody”, the country’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. However, she said they “still clasp superior concerns for Mr Jenkins arsenic a captive of war”.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged United States President Donald Trump to beryllium connected Kyiv’s side, which is the “side of justice”. He said Ukraine needs broader information guarantees, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not acrophobic of Europe.
• The Associated Press quality bureau reported that Western officials warned Ukraine of a imaginable nonaccomplishment of spot successful the state implicit Kyiv’s escalating interior feud betwixt the defence curate and the procurement chief.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies