These are the important thing developments from day 1,437 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Printed On 31 Jan 2026
Right here is the place issues stand on Saturday, January 31:
Vitality disaster
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in his nightly video tackle on Friday that each Ukraine and Russia had begun a weeklong pause in assaults on one another’s vitality infrastructure amid plummeting winter temperatures.
- “In all our areas, from Friday evening, there have been certainly no strikes on vitality amenities. Nearly none. Aside from the Donetsk area, the place there was one strike on gasoline infrastructure – an aerial bomb hit,” he stated.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that Moscow had solely agreed to pause the assaults till Sunday.
- “President [Donald] Trump did certainly make a private request to President [Vladimir] Putin to chorus from putting Kyiv for per week till February 1 in an effort to create beneficial situations for negotiations,” Peskov stated.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on Telegram that 253 condo buildings stay with out heating in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, with temperatures falling to as little as -23 levels Celsius (-9.4 levels Fahrenheit) in a single day this week.
Preventing
- Russian forces attacked a minibus carrying passengers in Ukraine’s Kherson area, killing the 48-year-old driver and injuring 5 individuals, two of whom had been in critical situation, the area’s Governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated on the Telegram messaging app.
- Prokudin earlier stated that three individuals had been killed in Russian drone, missile and artillery assaults throughout Kherson over the previous day.
- Russian forces killed a 47-year-old girl and injured one other 52-year-old girl in an assault close to the village of Novoosinove, in Ukraine’s Kherson area, Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated on Telegram.
- Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence stated that Russian forces fired an Iskander-M ballistic missile and launched 111 drones in direction of Ukraine in a single day and into Friday morning. About 80 drones had been shot down by Ukrainian forces, the ministry stated.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated that Russian forces had launched seven assaults on Ukraine’s railway infrastructure inside the earlier 24 hours.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated that Russian forces seized the Ukrainian village of Ternuvate within the Zaporizhia area. Russian state media additionally reported that Russian forces seized Richne in Zaporizhia and Berestok within the japanese Donetsk area.
- Ukrainian battlefield monitoring web site DeepState stated that Russian forces occupied Zlahoda in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area and superior close to Hrabovske within the Sumy area, and Yehorivka within the Zaporizhia area.
Politics and diplomacy
- President Zelenskyy informed reporters on Friday that he invited President Putin to Kyiv for talks, “if he dares”, including that he was prepared for any format for the assembly, however that he wouldn’t go to Moscow or Belarus.
- Russian lawmakers need Moscow to make use of extra highly effective weapons to attain its warfare targets in Ukraine, the speaker of parliament’s decrease chamber, the State Duma, stated on Friday.
- Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on Telegram: “State Duma deputies insist on the usage of extra highly effective weapons – ‘weapons of retribution’. And the achievement of the targets of the particular army operation.”
- The Russian Ministry of International Affairs stated it will use “all accessible means” to defend vessels crusing underneath Russian flags after a suspected Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker – “the Grinch” – was lately intercepted by the French navy at sea and brought to the Marseille-Fos port within the south of France.
- The European Union has blacklisted Russia over the danger of cash laundering, EU international coverage chief Kaja Kallas informed reporters on Friday. “This may decelerate and improve the prices of transactions with Russian banks,” she stated.
