These are important developments since day 1,436 of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Published January 30, 2026
Here’s what happened on Friday, January 30th.
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Two women and a man were killed in a Russian drone strike in Vilnyansk, in Ukraine’s frontline Zaporozhye region, regional military governor Ivan Fedorov announced on the messaging app Telegram. Fedorov said the attack also destroyed a house after it started a fire. Fedorov said in a subsequent post that Russian forces had launched a total of 841 attacks against 34 settlements across Zaporizhzhya in the past day, injuring 16 people in these attacks. Oleksandr Virkul, head of the Kryvyi Rief Regional Defense Council, said an elderly woman was killed and three others were injured in a Russian attack in the city of Kryvyi Rief, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, southeast of Kharkov. One person was also killed in the Russian attack in Drushkivka, Donetsk region, and one person was killed in Khatniye, Kharkiv region, local officials said, Kyiv Independent news agency reported. The death toll from the Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine, on Tuesday has increased to four, the head of the Odesa military authority Serhiy Raisak announced. A man injured in the attack died in hospital on Thursday. A hospital worker was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the premises of the Gray Boron Hospital in Russia’s Belgorod region, the Regional Emergency Operations Headquarters announced. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian military had shot down 111 Ukrainian-made drones within 24 hours, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
energy crisis
Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said on Telegram that 454 homes in the Ukrainian capital remain without heat and temperatures are expected to drop to -23 degrees Celsius (-9.4 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight this week.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday he hoped that Russia’s agreement not to shell Kiev and other cities for a week due to severe winter weather would be implemented as announced by US President Donald Trump.
“Our team discussed this matter in the United Arab Emirates. We hope that the agreement will be implemented,” President Zelenskiy said on social media. “Detente measures contribute to real progress towards ending the war,” he added.
President Trump earlier said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to refrain from shelling Kiev for a week due to the winter cold.
“I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kiev and other cities for a week, and the president agreed,” Trump told the Cabinet, citing “unusual cold” in the region.
ceasefire negotiations
Ukraine’s Prisoner of War Processing Coordination Headquarters has confirmed that Ukraine has received the remains of 1,000 soldiers from Russia in the latest exchange of soldiers killed during the war. Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky also confirmed that “within the framework of the Istanbul agreement, the bodies of 1,000 deceased Ukrainian soldiers were transferred to Ukraine.” “The bodies of the 38 deceased Russian soldiers have been transferred to Russia,” Medinsky said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had not yet seen the ceasefire document, which Ukraine called the 20-point plan, adding that he believed it had been “reinvented” by Ukraine and its allies. “We haven’t seen the whole picture yet,” he says.
