Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,424

On Sunday, January 18, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian military, about 1, 225, 590 personnel have been lost, according to estimates from the general staff of the Ukrainian military.
• According to the office, Russia has lost an additional 11 569 tanks, 23 914 armoured fighting vehicles, 74, 601 vehicles and fuel tanks, 36, 261 artillery systems, 1, 615 multiple launch rocket systems, 1, 278 air defense systems, 434 aircraft, 347 helicopters, 108, 605 drones, 28 ships and boats, and two submarines. Since the start of the war, it has been challenging to independently verify the causalties of both sides.
• Russian forces reportedly seized Pryvillya and Prylukya, both of which are located in the Donetsk region, according to the Russian TASS news agency.
  in the Zaporizhia region, citing Moscow’s Ministry of Defense.
• According to the ministry, 305 Ukrainian forces have lost 1,030 personnel in the past 24 hours, and 214 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and two long-range Neptune missiles have been shot down by Russian air defenses.
• In addition to “ammunition depots, assembly workshops, storage sites, pre-flight preparation and launch sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles,” Russia’s defense ministry reported that it carried out attacks on Ukrainian energy and transportation infrastructure in 167 locations over the course of the past 24 hours.

Energy strikes

The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy reported that the Russian forces were continuing their assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure over the weekend night, carrying out attacks in the Kyiv and Odesa regions. Russian authorities have portrayed the attacks as an attempt to sabotage the country’s energy system due to the country’s current cold weather.
• More than 20 communities in the Kyiv region were left without power as a result of the strikes, according to the Ukraine’s Energy Ministry in a post on the messaging app Telegram.
• Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, claimed that the energy system of Ukraine’s second-largest city was “constantly operating at its limits” because of constant Russian attacks. He claimed that overnight strikes caused three injuries to three people.
• The most pressing energy issues are affecting Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, during a meeting on energy coordination. He added that countries must increase their energy imports and seek out additional equipment from allies.
• Despite power outages, infrastructure problems, and extreme cold predictions, foreign embassies are planning to remain in Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Kyiv Independent. Weather forecasts for later this month range from 20 degrees Celsius (–4 degrees Fahrenheit). According to the report, Kyiv hosts about 80 foreign diplomatic missions.
• Moscow is reportedly planning attacks to shut Ukraine out of three nuclear power plants in the coming days, according to Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence body. According to the intelligence agency, those efforts are intended to “force Ukraine to accept unacceptable capitulation demands to end the war” and undermine the nation’s energy infrastructure.

Peace talks

• Kyrylo Budanov, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said he was scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the US Army, and Secretary of State Dan Driscoll, US President.
• On Sunday, Rustem Umerov and Davyd Arakhamia, the negotiators from Ukraine, will also participate in the discussions in Miami, Florida.
• On Friday, Zelenskyy stated that the weekend discussions would concentrate on developing ideas for a possible peace agreement regarding issues like economic reconstruction and post-war security guarantees.
• The delegation’s statement, “in addition to stressing the destructive role that Russian continued strikes play on Ukraine,” was “constantly worsening” the country’s already constrained prospects for a peaceful resolution to end the war.
• The two nations could sign a document at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week if the Trump administration and Ukraine reach a consensus on a proposal. Russian support would also be required for any such proposal.

Diplomacy

Kaja Kallas, the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, claimed that the Trump administration’s threats to seize control of Greenland and impose tariffs on European allies who disagree with him should not be allowed to undermine the effort to put an end to Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, which she described as the “core task” of the bloc.
• As Trump continues to threaten the self-governing Danish territory and NATO member, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev made fun of European leaders by sending military personnel there. In a social media post addressed to EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, he said that European nations should not “provoke the daddy”.
• Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, praised Denmark and Greenland as examples of how the continent’s “sovereignty is upheld,” and claimed that the concept of sovereignty underlies France’s support for Ukraine.
• Before the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, Zelenskyy announced Ukrainian sanctions against individuals and organizations involved in Russian athletics, claiming that Moscow uses “sports venues to spread anti-Ukrainian narratives and Russian propaganda.” Russian athletes are prohibited from competing, but they can still be considered “neutral athletes.”