These are the important thing developments from day 1,425 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Revealed On 18 Jan 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, January 19:
Preventing
- Russian assaults killed three individuals, together with a 20-year-old girl, and injured 11 others in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
- In Ukraine’s Kherson area, two individuals had been killed, and one particular person was injured, as Russian forces launched assaults utilizing drones, air strikes and shelling, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin mentioned on Telegram on Sunday.
- Six individuals had been additionally injured in Russian assaults on Dnipropetrovsk, and 5 individuals had been injured in Sumy, native officers mentioned, in response to the Kyiv Impartial.
- One particular person was killed and one other wounded in a drone strike on the border village of Nechaivka within the Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, Moscow-installed Governor Yevgeny Balitsky mentioned on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian assault killed a lady and injured a person in Russia’s Belgorod area, the regional process pressure reported on Telegram.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned that it shot down 140 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour interval, in response to Russia’s TASS state information company.
Vitality disaster
- Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi mentioned that “essential restore works” had begun on an “important backup line” connecting Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to the grid, “beneath one other IAEA-brokered ceasefire”.
- “A Ukrainian workforce is conducting the repairs, with an IAEA workforce on the bottom monitoring progress”, Grossi mentioned on X.
- Russian shelling broken an vitality facility in Ukraine’s Chernihiv area, leaving properties with out electrical energy, the regional electrical energy distribution firm mentioned on Telegram.
- Greater than 200,000 customers within the Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area had been left with out electrical energy on Sunday, Balitsky mentioned on Telegram, after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Chief Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov mentioned that Ukrainian and Russian representatives assembly in Miami, Florida, over the previous two days mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine “intimately”, with “a concentrate on sensible mechanisms for his or her implementation”.
- US negotiators current included Stephen Witkoff, Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Military Daniel Driscoll, and White Home staffer Josh Gruenbaum, Umerov mentioned, including that talks are set to proceed in Davos, Switzerland.
- Kremlin funding envoy Kirill Dmitriev celebrated US President Donald Trump imposing 10 p.c tariffs on European international locations for sending troops to defend Greenland, as Trump continues to threaten the self-governing Danish territory and NATO member. “Transatlantic unity is over,” Dmitriev mentioned within the publish, “Leftist, globalist EU/UK elites failed,” he added, earlier than directing particular criticism at European leaders, together with EU overseas coverage chief Kaja Kallas, in a stream of posts.
- Kallas, in her personal publish on X, mentioned that China and Russia “are those who profit from divisions amongst Allies”, including that it was essential to not let the dispute over Greenland “distract us from our core process of serving to to finish Russia’s conflict in opposition to Ukraine”.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez mentioned a US invasion of Greenland “would make [Russian President Vladimir] Putin the happiest man on earth”, as a result of it might “legitimise his tried invasion of Ukraine”, in an interview with the La Vanguardia newspaper, printed on Sunday.
