On Friday, January 23, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- Vyacheslav Zadorenko, the head of the regional military administration, reported on the Telegram messaging app that two bread-delivering volunteers were killed in a Russian drone attack on their car in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
- At least seven people were hurt when Russian forces launched a drone attack on a high-rise residential building in Dnipro, according to the city’s mayor Borys Filatov.
- In the disputed Komyshuvakha area of Ukraine, four people were killed and four were hurt as a result of Russian glide bombings, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.
- Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the regional military administration, reported that 12 people were hurt in a Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih city in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk region, including four children.
- According to a report from Russia’s TASS state news agency, Russian forces shot down 31 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the early hours of Thursday.
Sanctions
- An oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, according to officials, belongs to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet,” which was meant to evade international sanctions, was intercepted by the French navy.
- The oil tanker, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, was “coming from Russia, subject to international sanctions, and suspected of flying a false flag.” He added that allies and allies participated in the operation “in strict accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.”
Energy crisis
- The situation is still “extremely difficult,” according to Ukraine’s Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, which came on Thursday during its most troubled day since a widespread blackout hit the network in November 2022.
- As nighttime temperatures dropped to -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit), conditions were the most challenging in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding area, according to Shmyhal, as well as in the southeast of Dnipropetrovsk.
- Two days after the most recent overnight Russian attacks, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that 600 apartment buildings had their heating restored, while 2,600 were still without heat.
diplomacy and politics
- Two Russian soldiers who were taken into custody in May 2025 were alive and unharmed, according to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, who later disclosed their bodies to Ukraine as part of a prisoner exchange agreement late last year. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the report.
military assistance
- Tore O Sandvik, the country’s defense minister, stated in “cooperation with the United States and others” that “his country has quickly delivered air defense missiles to Ukraine at a crucial stage so that the NASAMS system can continue to protect Ukrainian citizens from deadly air strikes.





