Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events

Here is the situation on Monday, January 27:

Fighting

According to Vadym Filashkin, the regional military administrator of Kyiv, four people were hurt in Kostiantynivka town and at least one woman was killed in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, as a result of Russian artillery fire in the city of Pokrovsk. Andriy Ryzhchenko, a military analyst from Ukraine, claims that Russia is looking to buy property in Pokrovsk.
According to the Ukrainian army, Moscow’s units launched 38 attacks on Ukrainian lines of defense repeatedly with artillery support.
Ukraine said its armed forces, together with the country’s defence intelligence, repeatedly struck Russia’s Ryazan Oil Refining Company for a second time just two days after its initial overnight attack on the facility. According to Kyiv, the Russian Federation’s four largest oil refineries are located there.
According to Russian media, the Moscow-based Defense Ministry claimed that its troops had taken control of Zelene and Velyka Novosilka, eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a third time in less than a year, replaced the commander of the Khortytsia operational strategic group responsible for defending Pokrovsk, which now risks falling into Russia’s hands. Major-General Mykhailo Drapatyi was appointed as the new ground forces commander.

Zelenskyy and Maia Sandu, the president of Moldova, discussed the separatist enclave’s willingness to provide Ukraine with electricity in exchange for low prices or even free coal. Additionally, he offered to send a team of experts to help raise the power output of the enclave’s power plant.
According to The Institute for the Study of War, Mikhail Zvinchuk, the founder of the Kremlin-linked Telegram channel Rybar, traveled to Iraq last week to try to bolster Russian influence there. According to reports, the team has met with numerous Iraqi officials, including Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, the country’s prime minister.
Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, told Al Jazeera that NATO member nations should increase their defense spending by at least 3% of GDP in order to create a “rebirth of Russian imperialism.”
Exit polls showed Belarusian President Lukashenko, whose administration is a close ally of Russia, was on track to extend his time in power with 87.6 percent of the votes in the country’s presidential election. Ukraine’s Prime Minister also stated that he has “no regrets” about allowing Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022 from Belarus.

Source: Aljazeera