These are the key developments from day 1,434 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published On 28 Jan 202628 Jan 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is where things stand on Wednesday, January 28:Fighting
At least four people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram. Zelenskyy added that four people were still missing, and that two people were injured in the attack.
In Ukraine’s Odesa region, three people were killed, and 25 others were injured in a Russian attack on a building, the head of the regional military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said on the Telegram messaging app.
One person was killed in a Russian aerial bomb attack on a kindergarten, which was being used as a community centre for Ukrainian people to charge phones and warm up during power outages, the head of the Kostiantynivka city military administration, Serhii Horbunov, said on Facebook.
A man and a woman were killed in a Russian drone attack as they were trying to evacuate from the village of Hrabovske in Ukraine’s Sumy region, Ukraine’s army reported.
Russian forces shot down 105 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period, according to a Russian Defence Ministry report carried by the TASS state news agency.
The Russian Defence Ministry also claimed that Russian forces had seized the Ukrainian settlement of Novoyakivlivka in the country’s Zaporizhia region and Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in the Kharkiv region, according to TASS.
However, Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Centre for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, denied that Russia had captured Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, calling it a “lie”. Meanwhile, an open intelligence map of troop movements by Ukraine’s volunteer organisation DeepState did not show Russian troops in the area of Novoyakivlivka.
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