Russia-Ukraine war: List of important events – day 1,063 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key developments on day 1,063 of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation as of Wednesday, January 22:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched four missiles and 131 drones at Ukraine overnight. The Air Force also said that 72 drones were destroyed while 59 disappeared without reaching their targets.
• Moscow’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian planes in six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were destroyed in Voronezh where, according to the governor of the region Aleksandr Gusev, falling debris started a fire six days after the remains of another captured drone caused an earlier fire. No injuries were reported.
• Kyiv’s military says he is responsible for an attack on an aircraft manufacturing plant in Russia’s Smolensk region where “fighter jets[s] they are modernized and made”, and the attack on Voronezh which led to the fire of the fuel depot. Ukraine’s General Staff said the attack was a combination of drones and special forces.
• The Russian news agency TASS said that Moscow’s military seized the village of Vovkove in eastern Ukraine, 10 kilometers southwest of the city of Pokrovsk, which is an important base for Kyiv’s military. Moscow forces also captured Shevchenko earlier, another village close to the site, TASS reported.
• Authorities in Russia’s Orenburg region have told residents to take cover from a possible Ukrainian drone attack. The locations of the Russian strategic missile force are located in the region.

• The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it has arrested a senior psychiatrist of the Ukrainian military on suspicion of corruption. The suspect is accused of failing to disclose about $1m in “illegal assets”, which authorities believe have been accumulated since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
• Russian Army Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov visited a tank division and a motorized rifle battalion fighting near the Ukrainian supply base in Pokrovsk. Footage showed Gerasimov arriving in a helicopter and handing out medals to soldiers.
• Moscow’s military destroyed seven Ukrainian drones over Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, and nine over Rostov in southern Russia. No injuries or damage were reported.
• About 229 Ukrainians remain in the town of Chasiv Yar, which is under heavy Russian fire, AFP quoted a Kyiv military spokesman as saying. Many of those in the city are elderly or disabled, AFP reports.

Politics & Diplomacy

• US President Donald Trump said he plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and told reporters that Putin is “destroying Russia” by refusing to sign an agreement to end the war with Ukraine. Trump said he thinks “Russia is going to be in big trouble” and expressed concern about Moscow’s economy.
• Trump has warned Putin that he will impose new sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin refuses to negotiate a ceasefire with Ukraine. Trump also said the US is looking to send 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 as the two discussed the idea of ​​a peace deal that could end Moscow’s war with Ukraine, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said. The two leaders also touched on issues affecting the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, Syria and Taiwan, said Ushakov.
• Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi quoted Ushakov as saying that the Trump administration had not contacted Moscow about the meeting. “We are ready,” he said.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, told the delegates that Europe must establish itself as a strong global leader, create a unified defense policy, and is willing to increase defense spending to ensure its peace and security. others.
• In his speech, Zelenskyy also questioned Trump’s commitment to the security of NATO and Europe, adding that Ukraine is working to establish a meeting with the American president.

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not agree to comply with Russia’s demands to reduce military forces in Kyiv in any future peace deal. “This is what he wants. We will not allow this to happen,” said Zelenskyy in Davos.
• Zelenskyy also told delegates at Davos that at least 200,000 European peacekeepers would be needed as part of any settlement to end the war with Russia. “Otherwise, it’s nothing,” he said.
• TASS reported that Putin held a phone call with Egyptian President Adel Fattah al-Sisi. They are said to have discussed joint projects between the two countries and the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine.