These are the main developments since Day 1,433 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Tuesday, January 27:

struggle

• Russian troops launch drone and missile strikes, injuring at least two people Kharkivsaid Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Ukraine’s second largest city. He added that the attack also damaged apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten.

• Russian drones also struck a high-rise apartment building in Ukraine’s Krivo Rog, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown southeast of Kharkiv. Alexander Vercourt, the city’s junta chief, said the attack sparked a fire but there were no reports of casualties.
• Russian drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital damaged parts of Ukraine’s most famous religious landmark and UNESCO World Heritage site, the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, Ukraine’s Culture Ministry said in a statement.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone struck Russian territory, killing one person. Belgorod border region” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app.
• The Ukrainian military said it attacked the Slavyansk Eko refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region overnight. The military said in a statement that some primary oil processing facilities were hit. There were initial reports of no casualties.

• One person was injured and two businesses caught fire after debris fell from a destroyed drone in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, also in Krasnodar, Russia, the regional emergency center said.

• The Russian Defense Ministry stated that its air defense system intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones overnight, 34 of which were located in the Krasnodar region.

military aid

• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Ukraine’s interception rate against Russian missiles and drones has dropped because Kiev has fewer weapons to protect it from attacks. Rutte urged allies to use stockpiles to help defend Ukraine.

humanitarian aid

• Online fundraiser Darek pro Putina (“Gift to Putin”) said the Czechs raised more than $6 million in grassroots fundraising in just five days to buy generators, heaters and batteries that were then shipped to Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine were left freezing in sub-zero temperatures after Russia attacked a power plant.

ceasefire talks

• talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators Zelensky said in his regular evening speech that it is expected to resume on February 1. He urged Ukraine’s allies not to weaken pressure on Moscow ahead of expected talks.

• Zelensky said in another post on He added that preparations for a new trilateral meeting were underway.

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi in a “constructive spirit” brokered by the United States, but that “there is still a lot of work ahead.” He added that despite these differences, the talks should be viewed positively.

• The Kremlin also said the territorial issue remains crucial for Russia in reaching a deal to end the fighting, Russia’s state news agency TASS reported. Moscow insists that in order to end the war, Russia must take over Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.

• After the talks in Abu Dhabi, German Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadfel condemned Russia’s “stubborn persistence on key territorial issues”.

politics

• European Union countries have approved a ban on Russian gas imports until the end of 2027, a move that comes nearly four years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and severing ties with its former top energy supplier.
• Ukrainian Energy Minister Denis Shmyhal welcomed the ban, saying in a statement that independence from Russian energy “is related first and foremost to a secure and strong Europe.”
• As the deadly war in Ukraine continues, Russia is testing European countries’ resilience through a mix of tactics, such as sabotaging undersea cables, jamming Global Positioning System signals and deploying shadow fleets to break sanctions, Germany’s Wadfel said.

• Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Budapest would summon the Ukrainian ambassador over what Orban said was Kyiv’s attempt to interfere in Hungarian parliamentary elections due to be held on April 12. Orban has stepped up his anti-Ukrainian rhetoric in recent weeks and sought to link opposition leader Peter Magyar to Brussels and Ukraine.