These are the key events from day 1,425 of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Posted on January 18, 2026
This is how things are on Monday, January 19:
Struggle
- Russian strikes killed three people, including a 20-year-old woman, and wounded 11 others in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
- In Ukraine's Kherson region, two people were killed and one wounded when Russian forces launched drone strikes, airstrikes and shelling, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram on Sunday.
- Six people were also wounded in the Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk, and five people were wounded in Sumy, local officials said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
- One person was killed and another wounded in a drone strike in the border village of Nechaivka, in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Moscow-based governor Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian attack killed a woman and injured a man in Russia's Belgorod region, the regional task force reported on Telegram.
- Russia's Defense Ministry said it shot down 140 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Energy crisis
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said “crucial repair work” had begun on an “essential backup line” connecting Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, “under another IAEA-brokered ceasefire.”
- “A Ukrainian team is carrying out repairs, and an IAEA team is monitoring progress on the ground,” Grossi said on X.
- Russian strikes damaged a power facility in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, leaving homes without power, the regional electricity distribution company said on Telegram.
- More than 200,000 consumers in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhia region were left without electricity on Sunday, Balitsky said on Telegram, after a Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said Ukrainian and Russian representatives meeting in Miami, Florida, over the past two days discussed security guarantees for Ukraine “in detail,” with “a focus on practical mechanisms for their implementation.”
- U.S. negotiators present included Stephen Witkoff, Jared Kushner, U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and White House official Josh Gruenbaum, Umerov said, adding that talks will continue in Davos, Switzerland.
- The Kremlin's investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, welcomed the fact that US President Donald Trump has imposed 10 percent tariffs on European countries for sending troops to defend Greenland, while Trump continues to threaten the autonomous Danish territory and a member of NATO. “Transatlantic unity is over,” Dmitriev said in the post. “The leftist and globalist elites of the EU and the UK have failed,” he added, before directing specific criticism at European leaders, including EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, in a series of posts.
- Kallas, in his own post on
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said a US invasion of Greenland “would make [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, the happiest man in the world”, because this would “legitimize his attempted invasion of Ukraine”, in an interview given to the newspaper La Vanguardia, published on Sunday.
