These are the key events on day 1,063 of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 22:
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- The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched four missiles and 131 drones toward Ukraine overnight. The Air Force also said that 72 of the drones were destroyed while 59 disappeared without reaching their targets.
- Moscow's Defense Ministry said its troops intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones in six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were shot down in Voronezh where, according to the region's governor, Aleksandr Gusev, falling debris sparked a fire just six days after the remains of another intercepted drone sparked an earlier fire. No injuries were reported.
- kyiv's military claimed responsibility for the attack on an aviation manufacturing plant in Russia's Smolensk region, where “fighter jets[s] they are being modernized and manufactured,” as well as an attack on Voronezh that resulted in a fire at a fuel depot. Ukraine's General Staff said the attacks were coordinated between drone units and special forces.
- Russia's state news agency TASS said Moscow's forces had seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Vovkove, just 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) southwest of the city of Pokrovsk, a key supply center. for Kiev troops. Moscow's army also previously captured Shevchenko, another village near the center, TASS reported.
- Russian regional authorities in Orenburg told residents to take shelter from a possible Ukrainian drone attack. Russian strategic missile force sites are located in the region.
- The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it detained the chief psychiatrist of the Ukrainian army for alleged corruption. The suspect is accused of failing to disclose about $1 million in “unjustified assets,” which authorities believe were accumulated since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
- Russian Army Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov visited a tank division and a motorized rifle brigade fighting near the Ukrainian supply center in Pokrovsk. Footage showed Gerasimov arriving in a helicopter and presenting medals to soldiers.
- Moscow's air defense units destroyed seven Ukrainian drones over Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as nine over Rostov in southern Russia. No casualties or damage were reported.
- Some 229 Ukrainian civilians still remain in the town of Chasiv Yar, which is under intense Russian fire, the AFP news agency quoted a kyiv military spokesman as saying. Many of those still in the city are elderly or disabled, AFP reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- US President Donald Trump said he planned to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and told reporters that Putin was “destroying Russia” by refusing to reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine. Trump said he thought “Russia is going to have big problems” and expressed concern about Moscow's economy.
- Trump warned Putin that he would impose new sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin refused to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. Trump also said the United States was studying the possibility of sending weapons to Ukraine, but added that the European Union should do more to support kyiv.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with Putin during which the two discussed prospects for a possible peace deal to end Moscow's war with Ukraine, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said. The two leaders also discussed issues related to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, Syria and Taiwan, Ushakov said.
- The Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi quoted Ushakov as saying that the Trump administration had not yet contacted Moscow regarding a meeting. “We are ready,” he reportedly said.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, told delegates that Europe must establish itself as a strong global leader, develop a joint defense policy and be willing to increase defense spending to ensure peace and security for herself and others.
- In his speech, Zelenskyy also questioned Trump's commitment to NATO and European security, adding that Ukraine was working to arrange a meeting with the US president.
- Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not give in to Russian demands to reduce kyiv's military capabilities in any potential future peace deal. “This is what he wants. We will not allow this to happen,” Zelenskyy said in Davos.
- Zelenskyy also told delegates in Davos that a minimum of 200,000 European peacekeepers would be needed as part of any deal to end the war with Russia. “Otherwise, it's nothing,” he said.
- TASS reported that Putin had a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. They are said to have discussed joint projects between both countries and the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine.
