Russia-Ukraine war: List of major events – Day 1,063 | russia-ukraine war news

Here are the key developments from the 1,063rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The situation as of Wednesday, January 22 is as follows:

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The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched four missiles and 131 drones toward Ukraine overnight. The Air Force also said that 72 drones were destroyed while 59 went missing without reaching their target.
Moscow’s Defense Ministry said its troops intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones in six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were downed in Voronezh, where falling debris caused a fire just six days after the remains of another downed drone, according to the region’s governor, Aleksandr Gusev. There is no report of anyone being injured.
Kiev’s forces claimed responsibility for an attack on an aviation manufacturing plant in Russia’s Smolensk region, where “combat aircraft are being modernized and manufactured”, as well as an attack on Voronezh, which resulted in a fire at a fuel depot. The General Staff of Ukraine said that the attacks were coordinated between drone units and special forces.
Russian state news agency TASS said Moscow’s forces had captured the village of Vovkov in eastern Ukraine, just 10 km (6.2 miles) southwest of the city of Pokrovsk, a key supply hub for Kiev’s troops. Is. TASS reported that Moscow’s forces had also previously captured Shevchenko, another village close to the hub.
Russia’s Orenburg regional authorities asked residents to avoid a possible Ukrainian drone attack. Russian strategic missile forces sites are located in this area.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it has detained the chief psychiatrist of the Ukrainian army over alleged corruption. The suspect is accused of failing to disclose nearly $1 million in “improper assets” that authorities believe had been accumulated since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
Russia’s Army Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov visited a tank division and a motorized rifle brigade fighting near the Ukrainian supply center in Pokrovsk. The footage shows Gerasimov arriving by helicopter and presenting medals to the soldiers.
Moscow’s air defense units destroyed seven Ukrainian drones over Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as nine drones over Rostov in southern Russia. No casualties or damage were reported.
AFP news agency quoted a Kiev military spokesman as saying that about 229 Ukrainian civilians were still in the town of Chasiv Yar, which has come under heavy Russian shelling. Many of those still in the city are elderly or disabled, AFP reports.

United States President Donald Trump said he planned to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and told reporters that Putin was “destroying Russia” by refusing to reach a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. Trump said he thinks “Russia is going to be in big trouble” and expressed concern for Moscow’s economy.
Trump warned Putin that he would impose new sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin refused to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. Trump also said the US was considering sending weapons to Ukraine, but said the EU should do more to support Kiev.
Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video call with Putin, during which the two discussed approaches to a possible peace deal to end Moscow’s war with Ukraine. Ushakov said the two leaders also discussed issues related to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, Syria and Taiwan.
Turkish news agency Anadolu Azansi quoted Ushakov as saying that the Trump administration had not yet contacted Moscow regarding the meeting. He reportedly said, “We are ready.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, told delegates that Europe must establish itself as a strong global leader, develop a joint defense policy and guarantee peace and security for itself. Must be prepared to increase defense expenditure. Other.
In his speech, Zelensky also questioned Trump’s commitment to NATO and European security, and said that Ukraine was working to arrange a meeting with the US president.

Zelensky said Ukraine would not bow to Russian demands to reduce Kiev’s military capability in any potential future peace deal. “This is what he wants. We will not let that happen,” Zelensky said in Davos.
Zelensky also told delegates in Davos that any deal to end the war with Russia would require at least 200,000 European peacekeepers. “Otherwise, it is nothing,” he said.
TASS reported that Putin spoke by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. They are said to have discussed joint projects between the two countries and the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine.