Russia-Ukraine war: List of major events – Day 1,066 | russia-ukraine war news

Here are the key developments from the 1,066th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The situation as of Saturday, January 25 is as follows:

fighting

• Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that its troops have captured the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Velika Novosilka after a month-long battle.
• Moscow said it intercepted 121 Ukrainian drones, including 37 in Bryansk, Russia, 20 in Ryazan and 17 in the country’s Kursk and Saratov regions.
• Ukraine’s military says Russian forces are failing to advance on its forces in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, as Russia attempts to cut supply lines to Ukrainian defenders in the city. The area serves as an important logistics hub for Ukrainian forces in the region.
• An analysis by the Oryx Project shows that Russia has lost 20,000 units of military equipment since February 2022, of which 15,051 units were directly destroyed in the conflict with Ukraine and 852 were damaged.
• The BBC and independent outlet MediaZona have identified the names of 90,019 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, adding 1,964 names to its list since the last update in mid-January.
• Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting conscription reforms that would see people aged 18 to 25 – who are currently exempt from mobilization – join the army in an effort to strengthen the country’s fighting force.
• Ukrainian military officials say the reforms are necessary because the country is currently operating on a conscription system inherited from the Soviet Union.

politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested meeting US President Donald Trump in person to discuss an end to the Ukraine war.
• Putin said he has always had a “pragmatic and trusting” relationship with Trump and supported his view that he is the real winner of the 2020 US election.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Russian president of trying to manipulate Trump into ending the war on Moscow’s terms.

logistical support

• The US on Friday froze all foreign aid for 90 days in a sweeping executive order, also freezing development and military aid to Ukraine, including billions of dollars of arms.
• U.S. military equipment sales to foreign governments rose 29 percent to a record $318.7 billion in 2024, the State Department said, as countries sought to replenish stocks sent to Ukraine and prepare for other conflicts.

regional Development

• Thousands of protesters gathered in a central square in the Slovak capital to protest against Prime Minister Robert Fico’s policy change towards Russia. Rallies were also held in 20 other cities and almost reached the scale of the protests in 2018 that forced Fico from office.
• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, pardoned 15 prisoners two days before the election, which is expected to extend his more than 30 years in power.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened to block the renewal of EU sanctions on Russia.

regional security

• Denmark has agreed to discuss Arctic security with the US, despite acrimonious talks between Donald Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in early January, where the US president said he wanted Greenland.

economy

• Trump repeated calls on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut oil prices to help stem the damage to oil-rich Russia’s finances and end the war in Ukraine.
• The leader of Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region, which is grappling with gas and heating cuts, said Friday that the country’s remaining gas reserves will be depleted within days after Moscow’s Gazprom ends shipments.