Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1,435 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the main developments since day 1,435 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Posted on January 29, 2026

Here’s what it looked like on Thursday, January 29:

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The death toll from a Russian attack on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Tuesday rose to six, with several bodies recovered from the wreckage, the Kharkiv district prosecutor’s office said on the Telegram messaging app.
Ivan Fedorov, director of the Military Administration of Ukraine’s Zaporozhye region, said on Telegram that at least six people were injured in the Russian missile attack.
Russian troops attacked multiple locations in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a 46-year-old man and injuring at least two others, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, said on Facebook.
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the Regional Emergency Task Force reported that Ukraine launched an attack on the village of Novotavordhanka in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing one person.
A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person in the city of Enekhodar in the Russian-occupied region of Ukraine’s Zaporozhye region, local appointed official Yevhen Balitsky said, TASS news agency reported.
According to the Ukrainian news agency, Fedorov ruled out the possibility of installing anti-drone nets as a means of defense, saying “there are more effective ways to counter Russian attacks.”

Ukrainian President Zelensky said after a phone call with French President Macron that France will provide Ukraine with more “French aircraft, air defense system missiles and aerial bombs” this year.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told an event in Paris that the 2035 target of rearming Europe was “too late”.
“I think rearming yourself is the most important thing right now,” Fredrickson said. “Because when you look at intelligence, nuclear weapons, etc., we are dependent on the United States,” she added.

Switzerland plans to inject an additional 31 billion Swiss francs ($40.4 billion) in military spending starting in 2028 by raising sales taxes over ten years.
“The world has become more volatile and insecure, and the international order based on international law is under pressure,” the Swiss government said, noting that other European countries have also been increasing defense spending.

Vladislav Maslennikov, a senior official for European affairs at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS that restoring relations with the EU would be possible only if European countries “stop their sanctions policy” and stop “transmitting weapons to the Kiev regime and undermining the peace process around Ukraine.”

President Macron told an event in Paris that European countries must focus on safeguarding their “sovereignty, their contribution to Arctic security, combating foreign interference and disinformation and combating global warming.”
“France will continue to defend these principles in accordance with the United Nations Charter,” Macron said. rejected Invite France to join Trump’s peace commission, which some critics say is a trying to replace the united nations.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that negotiations over Ukraine’s Donetsk region “remain a bridge that must be crossed in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.” The Donetsk region is part of the Donbas region, 90% of which is currently occupied by Russian troops.
“It’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow it down to a core issue, and it’s probably going to be a very difficult issue,” Rubio said.

Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said 639 apartment buildings in Kiev were still without heating and night temperatures were expected to drop to -23 degrees Celsius (-9.4 degrees Fahrenheit) this week.