These are important developments since day 1,428 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Published January 22, 2026
Here’s what happened on Thursday, January 22nd.
finding
A 52-year-old woman was injured by Russian shelling in the Dniprovsky district of Ukraine’s Kherson region and died in hospital, the district prosecutor’s office announced on the messaging app Telegram. According to Ukraine’s Ukrinform news agency, Russian forces have dropped 768 guided missiles and high-explosive aerial bombs on areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk region still under the control of Ukrainian authorities in the past 10 days, destroying almost all remaining infrastructure, according to Vadim Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Directorate, according to Ukraine’s Ukrinform news agency. Ukrainian energy company DTEK said on Facebook that power has been restored to “critical infrastructure” in the Ukrainian capital Kiev following the recent Russian attack, but “the city’s power system remains in severe emergency mode” and daily power outages have now continued for a month. In a separate Telegram post, DTEK added that the attack on Kiev’s power generation facilities also affected parts of Dniprovsky and Desnyansky districts, leaving around 44,000 homes without power. Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s state power grid operator, said a top executive had been killed while overseeing repairs to power facilities damaged in the Russian attack, but did not provide further details. Russian state-run TASS news agency reported that Ukrainian forces attacked the port in the village of Volna in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region, killing three people and injuring eight others, the regional emergency services task force reported. Krasnodar region governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram that four oil storage tanks were “engulfed in flames” in the attack. A military court in Moscow has sentenced an Uzbek man to life in prison after finding him guilty of killing the top Russian military commander, General Igor Kirillov, and his aides in a 2024 Ukrainian-backed bomb attack.
regional security
Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said in a post on X that Dutch naval vessels had escorted a Russian vessel away from the North Sea for the “second time in a short period of time.” “We know that these Russian ships could be used to spy on and map critical infrastructure at sea,” the minister said. German prosecutors arrested a German-Ukrainian woman on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for Russia through gathering information on drone production for Ukraine, attending political events and friendships with former German defense ministry officials, a statement said. Although the situation in NATO is difficult due to the crisis over Greenland, Western allies must not forget that their common enemy is Russia, which is increasing its military presence in the Arctic, Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik told foreign correspondents in Oslo on Wednesday.
politics and diplomacy
President Donald Trump, who is in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, said he would meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, adding that he believes both the Ukrainian leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin want an end to the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine, and that a deal is now “very close.” Trump also told reporters at Davos that he had invited Putin to the Gaza Peace Council because he wanted to see powerful people join the initiative, according to TASS. Putin said Wednesday that Russia’s foreign minister is considering Trump’s invitation to the council and will respond in due course. At a meeting of the Russian Security Council, Russian News Agency reported, Putin said the proposed “peace commission” would primarily be aimed at dealing with a Middle East peace settlement, and that Russia was ready to provide $1 billion from Russian assets frozen in the United States due to the war against Ukraine, an amount that Trump had proposed as a long-term member of the council. Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Telegram that he met with two of Trump’s senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, in Davos. Witkov and Kushner also met with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Davos on Wednesday, with Witkov calling the meeting “very positive,” according to TASS.
