These are the main developments since day 1,436 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Friday, January 30:

struggle

• The Russian drone strike killed two women and a man, Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Vilniask District Military Administration in Ukraine’s frontline Zaporozhye region, said on the Telegram messaging app. Fedorov said the attack also destroyed houses after the fire broke out.
• Fedorov said in a subsequent post that in the past day, the Russian army launched a total of 841 attacks on 34 settlements across Zaporozhye, resulting in 16 injuries.
• An elderly woman was killed and three others injured in a Russian attack in the city of Krivorog, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown southeast of Kharkiv, said Oleksandr Verkul, chairman of the Krivoy Rog Region Defense Council.
• Russian attacks also killed one person in Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region and Khatny in the Kharkiv region, local officials said, according to Kyiv independent news media.
• The death toll from a Russian attack on Odessa, Ukraine, on Tuesday has risen to four, with a man injured in the attack dying in hospital on Thursday, Odessa Military Administration Chief Serhiy Lesak said.
• A Ukrainian drone strike killed a hospital staff member at Gravoron Hospital in Russia’s Belgorod region, the emergency response headquarters of Russia’s Belgorod region said.
• According to the Russian TASS news agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian troops shot down 111 Ukrainian drones within 24 hours.

energy crisis

• Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said on Telegram that 454 residential buildings in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev remain without heating, with nighttime temperatures expected to drop to -23 degrees Celsius (-9.4 degrees Fahrenheit) this week.

• President Zelensky said on Thursday he expected Russia to implement a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to refrain from firing on Kiev and other cities for a week due to severe winter weather.

• “Our teams discussed this issue in the United Arab Emirates. We hope these agreements will be implemented,” Zelensky wrote on social media. “Steps to de-escalate the situation can help make real progress towards ending the war,” he added.

• Trump earlier said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed not to open fire on Kiev for a week due to severe winter cold.

• “I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kiev and towns for a week, and he agreed,” Trump told a Cabinet meeting, citing “unusually cold” conditions in the region.

ceasefire negotiations

• The Headquarters for the Coordination of the Treatment of Prisoners of War in Ukraine confirmed that Ukraine Receive the bodies of 1,000 soldiers The latest exchange of victims from Russia during the war.
• Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky also confirmed that “the bodies of 1,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers have been transferred to Ukraine within the framework of the Istanbul Agreement.”
• Medinsky said that “the bodies of 38 dead Russian soldiers have been transferred to Russia.”
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had not yet seen the ceasefire document that Ukraine calls its 20-point plan, adding that he believed the document had been “modified” by Ukraine and its allies. “We haven’t seen the full extent of it yet,” he said.