Here are the key developments on the 1,064th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Here is the situation on Thursday, January 23:
Fighting
The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched 99 drones towards Ukraine overnight in what has become a daily volley of strikes. The air force said Kyiv’s troops destroyed 65 drones while 30 disappeared from radar. Six regions in Ukraine reported attacks as a result of the drones.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence confirmed Moscow’s forces captured the village of Zapadne in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. The village is on the western bank of the Oskil River, which had formed the front line between the Kremlin and Kyiv’s armies for a long time.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Russia had attacked Kyiv’s energy facilities 1,200 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including strikes targeting electricity generation facilities, distribution channels and gas facilities.
Russian courts upheld the life sentence of Alexander Permyakov, the man convicted of seriously injuring Zakhar Prilepin, a pro-Kremlin writer, by blowing up his car in 2023. Prilepin’s driver was killed in the bombing.
Russian media report that the relatives of some 3,000 Russian civilians trapped in the Sudzha district of the Ukraine-occupied Kursk region began a coordinated social media campaign appealing for help to find their loved ones.
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