Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,435

These are the important thing developments from day 1,435 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Printed On 29 Jan 2026

Right here is the place issues stand on Thursday, January 29:

Combating

The dying toll from a Russian assault on a passenger practice in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area on Tuesday rose to 6, after the stays of a number of our bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Workplace stated on the Telegram messaging app.
No less than six folks had been injured in a Russian missile assault on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, the pinnacle of the regional army administration, Ivan Fedorov, stated on Telegram.
Russian forces attacked a number of areas throughout Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, killing a 46-year-old man and injuring a minimum of two different folks, the pinnacle of the regional army administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, stated on Fb.
One particular person was killed in a Ukrainian assault on the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in Russia’s Belgorod area, the regional emergencies process drive reported, based on the nation’s TASS state information company.
A Ukrainian drone assault killed one particular person within the metropolis of Enerhodar, in a Russian-occupied space of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, Russia’s domestically appointed official Yevhen Balitsky stated, based on TASS.
Fedorov has dominated out putting in anti-drone netting as a mode of defence, saying that “there are more practical methods to fight Russian assaults”, Ukraine’s Ukrinform information company reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that France will ship extra “French plane, missiles for air defence programs, and aerial bombs” to Ukraine this yr, following a cellphone name with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated at an occasion in Paris {that a} 2035 goal for rearming Europe “could be too late”.
“I believe rearming ourselves now’s an important factor,” Frederiksen stated. “As a result of if you have a look at intelligence, nuclear weapons, and so forth, we rely on the US,” she added.

Switzerland plans to inject an extra 31 billion Swiss francs ($40.4bn) into army spending ranging from 2028 by rising gross sales taxes for a decade.
“The world has develop into extra risky and insecure, and the worldwide order primarily based on worldwide regulation is below pressure,” the Swiss authorities stated, noting that different European nations have additionally been rising their defence spending.

Vladislav Maslennikov, a prime European Affairs official on the Russian Ministry of International Affairs, informed TASS that restoring relations with the European Union will solely be potential if European nations “stop their sanctions coverage”, cease “pump[ing] weapons into the Kyiv regime, and sabotag[ing] the peace course of round Ukraine.”

President Macron stated at an occasion in Paris that European nations should give attention to asserting their “sovereignty, on our contribution to Arctic safety, on the combat in opposition to international interference and disinformation, and on the combat in opposition to world warming”.
“France will proceed to defend these ideas in accordance with the United Nations Constitution,” stated Macron, who has turned down an invite for France to affix Trump’s Board of Peace, which some critics say is an attempt to replace the United Nations.

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed a Senate International Relations Committee listening to that negotiations over Ukraine’s Donetsk area, which is a part of the Donbas area that’s now 90 p.c occupied by Russian forces, are “nonetheless a bridge we’ve to cross” in talks between Russia and Ukraine.
“It’s nonetheless a niche, however a minimum of we’ve been capable of slim down the problem set to at least one central one, and it’ll in all probability be a really troublesome one,” Rubio stated.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated that 639 residence buildings in Kyiv stay with out warmth, with temperatures forecast to drop to -23 levels Celsius (-9.4 levels Fahrenheit) in a single day this week.