Here are the key developments on the 1,063rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 22:
Fighting
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched four missiles and 131 drones towards Ukraine overnight. The Air Force also said that 72 of the drones were destroyed while 59 disappeared without reaching their targets.
Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said its troops intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones in six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were downed in Voronezh where, according to the region’s Governor Aleksandr Gusev, falling debris started a blaze just six days after remnants of another intercepted drone triggered an earlier fire. No injuries were reported.
Kyiv’s military claimed responsibility for attacking an aviation manufacturing plant in Russia’s Smolensk region where “combat aircraft[s] are being modernised and manufactured”, as well as an attack on Voronezh which resulted in a fuel depot fire. Ukraine’s General Staff said the attacks were coordinated between drone units and special forces.
Russian state news agency TASS said Moscow’s forces had seized eastern Ukraine’s Vovkove village, just 10km (6.2 miles) southwest of Pokrovsk city, a key supply hub for Kyiv’s troops. Moscow’s army also captured Shevchenko earlier, another village close to the hub, TASS reported.
Russia’s Orenburg regional authorities told residents to take shelter from a possible Ukrainian drone attack. Russian strategic missile for …