These are the major developments since the 1,417th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published on January 11, 2026
Here’s what’s happening on Sunday, January 11:
Battle:
- Russian forces launched artillery and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday, killing a 68-year-old man, injuring three others and setting residential buildings on fire, according to Ukraine’s emergency service.
- Another person was killed by Russian shelling in the Kramtorsk district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the service said.
- Three other Ukrainians were killed and nine others wounded in the Russian attack on the Yarova, Kostyaninivka and Sloviansk areas in Donetsk, according to Governor Vadim Filashkin.
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 139 combat encounters on Saturday and said Russia carried out 33 airstrikes, deployed more than 4,430 drones and carried out 2,830 attacks on Ukrainian troops and settlements.
- According to Ukraine’s battlefield monitoring site Deepstat, Russian forces advanced near the villages of Markov and Kleban-Bayk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, but no other major changes were reported.
- In Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, engineers are working “around the clock” to restore electricity to residents Thousands of apartments Power was lost during Thursday’s attack by Russia, said Timur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko added that heat supply has been restored to about half of the homes that lost power.
- Two people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on the southwestern Russian city of Voronezh, Russia’s TASS news agency said.
- The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Saturday that 600,000 people in the area were without electricity, heat and water after a Ukrainian missile attack.
- Ukraine’s military launched a drone strike in Russia’s Volgograd region and set fire to an oil depot in the Oktyabrsky district, regional officials said.
- Ukrainian forces said on Saturday that they had launched an overnight attack on the Zutovskaya oil depot in Volgograd.
- Meanwhile, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 33 Ukrainian drones over Russian territories, the agency reported.
Politics and Diplomacy
- After Russia, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on January 12 “to address Russia’s flagrant violations of the UN Charter”. Launched Oranic hypersonic missile Near the Polish border, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Andriy Sibiha wrote on X.
- Foreign Minister also spoke about it Anti-government protests “Iran’s support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and torture of its own citizens are part of the same policy of violence and disrespect for human dignity,” it said.
- Dmitry Medvedev, vice president of Russia’s Security Council, insisted that Russia would not accept European or NATO troops in Ukraine and that “European dimwits want war in Europe”.
- “Well, come on then. This is what you get”, added the deputy chairman, accompanied by a video of the Oreshnik strike.
- The Institute for the Study of War wrote in its latest report that Russia’s Oreshnik strike may have been aimed “to scare Western countries from providing military assistance to Ukraine, particularly from deploying troops to Ukraine as part of a peace deal.”
- Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Rustem Umarov, “once again contacted our American partners”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram. “We are communicating with the American side every day,” he said.
- South Africa A A week of naval exercisesRussia, Iran and China also participated.
- Captain Nandwakhulu Thomas Thamaha, South Africa’s joint task force commander, said at the opening ceremony that the exercises were “a demonstration of our collective resolve to work together”.
Approval
- Zelenskyy promised on X that “we will continue to strengthen the sanctions toolkit” and “maintain all lines of pressure on Russia and its associated individuals”.
- Regarding the recent news given by US President Donald Trump Greenlight the bill to approved countries For those who buy Russian oil, Zelensky said: “The important thing is that the US Congress is targeting Russian oil – to impose tougher sanctions against Russia. It can really work.”
Energy
- Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev said there was a “significant increase” in Russian oil production after Bloomberg reported that Russian net fuel flows hit a four-month high in December due to strong diesel shipments from Baltic Sea ports. Dimitriev added on X that “fake warmonger stories are bad at judging”.
- Separately, Bloomberg also reported that Russia’s crude oil production fell to a one-and-a-half-year low in December to 9.32 million barrels per day.