Category: World

One of many services within the Khmelnytskyi district was hit by a Russian strike on the evening of 17-18 January, inflicting a number of fires.

Supply: Khmelnytskyi Oblast Army Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Particulars: Explosions had been heard within the oblast at round 05:00.

Because of the Russian assault, a hearth broke out at an organization constructing.

No details about casualties has been reported.

Background: Russian forces attacked the south of Odesa Oblast as soon as once more with strike drones on the evening of 17-18 January.

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Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 201 UAVs on the evening of 17-18 January. Ukrainian air defence forces have shot down or jammed 167 drones.

Supply: Ukraine's Air Drive

Particulars: Specifically, 30 assault UAVs hit 15 areas.

Drone particles fell at two areas.

As of the morning, the assault is ongoing, and several other Russian UAVs are remaining in Ukraine's airspace.

Background: Russia has misplaced 830 troopers killed and wounded over the previous day, bringing its whole variety of personnel losses to 1,226,420.

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Lithuania's authorities is planning to decide within the coming days to supply Ukraine with further vitality help, particularly energy technology gear, to assist the nation handle vitality provide points in Kyiv and essentially the most vital oblasts.

Supply: Ukraine's Power Minister Denys Shmyhal on social media

Particulars: Shmyhal reported that he had held a substantive telephone name with Lithuania's Power Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas.

Quote: "I expressed my gratitude for the help Lithuania has supplied to Ukraine. Because the begin of the full-scale invasion, we have now acquired units of kit for thermal energy vegetation and nuclear energy vegetation, which has helped perform emergency repairs in a number of Ukrainian areas.

As well as, we have now acquired greater than 2,000 photo voltaic panels, together with numerous items of kit and equipment, from our Lithuanian associates. Lithuania has contributed €5.7 million to the Ukraine Power Assist Fund."

Extra particulars: Shmyhal briefed Vaičiūnas on the state of affairs in Ukraine's vitality sector and mentioned there isn’t any energy plant within the nation that has not been hit by Russian strikes. Ukrainian vitality employees proceed round the clock repairs to revive electrical energy for shoppers.

Background:

• Earlier, Ukraine's International Minister Andrii Sybiha introduced that Kyiv, in coordination with the Ministry of Power, is convening an energy-focused assembly of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also referred to as the Ramstein format) on the directions of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko.
• Ukraine and the United Nations will ask donor international locations to supply further funding for humanitarian help in response to the disaster brought on by Russian assaults on civilian infrastructure.

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Emergency restore work is ongoing in Kyiv to revive heating to 102 residential buildings.

Supply: Oleksii Kuleba, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration and Minister for Communities and Territorial Growth

Quote from Kuleba: "Forty-six condominium buildings had been left with out heating after a large-scale Russian assault on 9 January. One other 56 buildings are affected by native accidents attributable to extreme frost and worn inside methods. The scenario is dynamic: restore groups are eliminating failures in actual time."

Particulars: The Holosiivskyi district at the moment has the most important variety of buildings with out heating. Repairs are additionally ongoing within the Shevchenkivskyi district. Heating is being steadily restored, with specialised personnel supervising the method to stop repeat failures.

Quote from Kuleba: "At current, 16 restore groups are working across the clock. We’re deploying extra sources. A further 20 groups are being introduced in from different areas, and [Ukrainian state-run railway operator] Ukrzaliznytsia is keen to offer one other 30. Total, as much as 50 emergency groups – round 200 specialised personnel – will probably be working in Kyiv.

To help folks, we’re deploying an extra invincibility centre run by the State Emergency Service. In buildings the place heating has not but been restored, the electrical energy provide is not going to be reduce. Our activity is to finish the work as shortly as attainable. At this time, heating ought to return to about half of the buildings, with the remaining to comply with shortly." [An invincibility centre is a heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts – ed.]

Background:

• Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that round 50 residential buildings in Kyiv stay with out heating out of the 6,000 that had no warmth provide after the large-scale assault on vitality infrastructure within the capital on 9 January.
• Explosions had been heard in Kyiv on the night of 8 January. Russia attacked the town with drones.
• As of the morning of 9 January, greater than 500,000 customers within the metropolis of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast had been left with out electrical energy after the Russian assault.
• Half of Kyiv's condominium buildings – virtually 6,000 – had been with out heating on account of harm to the capital's important infrastructure attributable to the large-scale Russian assault.

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US President Donald Trump has introduced that from 1 February, Washington will impose tariffs on various nations that oppose his stance on Greenland.

Supply: Trump on his social media platform Reality Social, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland will likely be topic to a ten% tariff on any and all items exported to the US from 1 February 2026.

From 1 June 2026, the tariff will likely be elevated to 25%, he added.

Quote from Trump: "This Tariff will likely be due and payable till such time as a Deal is reached for the Full and Whole buy of Greenland… America of America is instantly open to negotiation with Denmark and/or any of those International locations which have put a lot in danger, regardless of all that we’ve got completed for them, together with most safety, over so many a long time."

Particulars: Trump said that the US has "subsidised Denmark, and the entire International locations of the European Union, and others, for a few years by not charging them Tariffs, or every other types of remuneration".

Quote from Trump: "Now, after Centuries, it’s time for Denmark to present again – World Peace is at stake! China and Russia need Greenland, and there’s not a factor that Denmark can do about it … Solely the US of America, below PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, can play on this sport, and really efficiently, at that! No person will contact this sacred piece of Land, particularly for the reason that Nationwide Safety of the US, and the World at massive, is at stake."

Background:

• On 14 January, Trump stated NATO would grow to be stronger if the US managed Greenland and urged the Alliance to assist make this occur.
• The federal government of Greenland stated it will step up efforts to make sure the defence of the Arctic territory below NATO auspices and as soon as once more rejected Trump's ambitions to take over the island.

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Ukraine's International Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) and main international powers to power Russia to desert its plans for strikes on substations supplying Ukraine's nuclear energy vegetation.

Supply: Sybiha on X (Twitter)

Particulars: Sybiha mentioned, citing Ukrainian intelligence, that Russia is planning harmful strikes on substations that present electrical energy to Ukrainian nuclear energy vegetation.

"Moscow is aware of no limits in its genocidal aim of depriving Ukrainians of energy amid freezing winter," he tweeted.

Ukraine is passing related intelligence to its companions and warning of doubtless catastrophic repercussions, Sybiha mentioned.

Quote: "It’s excessive time for the world, together with the IAEA and main international powers that worth nuclear security, to talk up and challenge clear warnings to Moscow and power it to desert such reckless plans."

Background:

• Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported earlier on Saturday that Russia is contemplating assaults on substations linked to Ukraine's nuclear energy vegetation in a bid to power Ukraine to comply with unacceptable calls for.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned, following a gathering with Oleh Ivashchenko, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), that Russia is getting ready additional strikes on Ukraine's power system and infrastructure, together with services that service nuclear energy vegetation.

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One individual was killed and 7 injured in Russian assaults on town of Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast on 17 January.

Supply: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace

Particulars: In Kharkiv, a important infrastructure facility was broken. Early stories point out that the Russians attacked town utilizing Twister-S multiple-launch rocket programs. Two males and one lady had been injured.

Within the Kupiansk district, a 52-year-old lady was killed when a first-person view (FPV) drone struck a public transport cease within the village of Borivske at round 11:00.

Throughout the day, a UAV attacked a civilian automobile within the village of Starovirivka. Two folks, a 42-year-old lady and a 51-year-old man, sustained accidents and burns. The kind of drone used within the assault is being established.

Within the Bohodukhiv district, Russian forces struck the village of Zolochiv with what’s believed to be a Molniya-type drone. Two outlets and a police car had been broken. Two folks had been injured.

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A civilian lady and three law enforcement officials have been injured in Russian drone strikes in town of Semenivka in Chernihiv Oblast.

Supply: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Navy Administration; Oleksandr Seliverstov, Head of Novhorod-Siverskyi District Navy Administration

Quote from Chaus: "The Russians struck a home in Semenivka with a drone at the moment. The home was broken. Law enforcement officials arrived on the website of the assault. There was a repeat strike. Very devious. 4 individuals had been injured: a 59-year-old civilian lady and three law enforcement officials. All of them are receiving medical remedy in hospital."

Particulars: Seliverstov offered additional particulars, saying that the Russian forces had used a Molniya-type strike UAV to assault residential buildings in Semenivka at round noon on 17 January.

The drone struck a neighborhood lady's home. When police arrived on the scene to offer help, the Russians carried out a double-tap strike, injuring three officers and the 59-year-old house owner.

The assault brought about intensive injury to the home, affecting the roof, façade, home windows and fence.

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Estonia's Inside Safety Service (KAPO) has deported David Arutyunyan, a Russian citizen, after he was deemed a menace to the nation's nationwide safety.

Supply: Estonian public broadcaster ERR, citing KAPO in an announcement, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Marta Tuul, spokeswoman for KAPO, stated Arutyunyan, who held a long-term residence allow in Estonia, had come to the eye of authorities for spreading Russian propaganda historic narratives.

On his Fb web page, he despatched greetings to colleagues within the Russian Nationwide Guard (Rosgvardiya), praising Russian army items as "peacekeepers".

"Arutyunyan voluntarily enlisted within the Russian army, at present serves within the reserves and actively shows his Russian army service and uniform on social media. He associates himself with a unit of the aggressor state and believes that Russia is conducting a 'particular army operation' in Ukraine," Tuul stated.

She added that Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board had beforehand fined Arutyunyan for sporting a Russian army uniform and disseminating symbols linked to struggle crimes.

Quote from the KAPO: "David Arutyunyan dreamed of becoming a member of the Russian military. However when it got here time for deportation, he hid behind a masks. For safety causes, the ISS, along with the PPA, expelled Russian citizen and servicemember Arutyunyan from Estonia and issued him a Schengen-wide entry ban."

Background:

• On 7 October, Ivan Dmitrijev, an Estonian citizen, was discovered responsible of espionage and aiding intelligence actions by an Estonian courtroom.
• Investigators established that from March to Might 2025, Dmitriev handed info to Russia's Federal Safety Service (FSB) on directions from Bobkov, an officer of the operational division of the border service.
• In early June, Estonia revoked a residence allow and deported a Russian citizen on nationwide safety grounds.

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Russian forces hit Kharkiv on the afternoon of 17 January, injuring civilians.

Supply: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov; Kharkiv Oblast Navy Administration

Quote from Terekhov: "An enemy strike has been recorded within the Industrialnyi district of the town."

Particulars: Terekhov stated that the Russians had hit a vital infrastructure facility.

Terekhov added that there have been studies about individuals being injured.

Kharkiv Oblast Navy Administration has confirmed the studies of explosions and stated that the specter of assaults stays.

Replace: Kharkiv Oblast Navy Administration reported {that a} 62-year-old man has been injured.

Terekhov stated that the injury attributable to the Russian assault is "vital".

Quote from Terekhov: "The enemy has struck a vital infrastructure facility within the Industrialnyi district. An individual is reported to have been injured.

The injury is important, and this isn’t a case of 'patching it up a bit and transferring on'. We’re speaking about severe blows to the system that gives the town with warmth and electrical energy.

With every such strike, sustaining centralised warmth and electrical energy provide turns into more durable. The power system is in a really difficult situation: reserves aren’t infinite, the load is at its peak and any new injury instantly eats into the capability for stabilisation."

Particulars: Terekhov stated any additional strike might worsen provide stability and make repairs longer and tougher.

Background: Russian forces launched a strike on power infrastructure in Odesa Oblast on the evening of 16-17 January.

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