These are the major developments since the 1,425th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published on January 18, 2026
Here’s what happened on Monday, January 19:
fights
- Three people, including a 20-year-old woman, were killed and 11 others injured in a Russian attack in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Sinehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
- In Ukraine’s Kherson region, two people were killed and one person was wounded as Russian forces launched attacks using drones, airstrikes and shelling, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in a telegram on Sunday.
- Six people were wounded in the Russian attack in Dnipropetrovsk and five in Sumy, local officials said, the Kyiv Independent reported.
- A drone strike killed one person and wounded another in the border village of Nechaivka in the Russian-occupied region of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Moscow-based governor Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram.
- A woman was killed and a man wounded in a Ukrainian attack in Russia’s Belgorod region, the regional task force reported on Telegram.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it shot down 140 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period, according to Russia’s TASS state news agency.
energy crisis
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said “significant repair works” had begun on an “essential backup line” connecting Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to the grid, “under another IAEA-brokered ceasefire”.
- “The Ukrainian team is working on repairs, the IAEA team is on the ground monitoring progress”, Grossi said on X.
- Russian shelling damaged an energy facility in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, leaving homes without power, the regional power distribution company said on Telegram.
- More than 200,000 customers in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region remained without power on Sunday, Balitsky said on Telegram after the Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday.
Politics and Diplomacy
- Chief Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umarov said Ukrainian and Russian representatives discussed Ukraine’s security guarantees “in detail” over the past two days in Miami, Florida, and “focused on practical mechanisms for their implementation”.
- Among the US negotiators in attendance were Stephen Wittkoff, Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll and White House staffer Josh Gruenbaum, Umarov said, adding that talks continue in Davos, Switzerland.
- The Kremlin’s investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev celebrated US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 10 percent tariffs on European countries for sending troops to defend Greenland, as Trump threatens the self-governing Danish region and NATO members. “Transatlantic unity is over,” Dmitriev said in the post, “left, globalist EU/UK elites failed,” he added, before specifically criticizing European leaders, including EU foreign policy chief Kaja Callas, in a stream of posts.
- Callas said in her own post on X that China and Russia are “exploiting the division between allies” and added that it was important not to let the dispute over Greenland “distract us from our core task of helping to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.”
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a US invasion of Greenland would “make (Russian President Vladimir) Putin the happiest person on earth” because it would “legitimize the attempt to invade Ukraine”, in an interview with La Vanguardia newspaper published on Sunday.