Russo-Ukrainian War: List of Major Events – Day 1061 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Here are the main developments on the 1,061st day of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Monday, January 20:

Fighting

• Russia said it has opened criminal investigations into the alleged “cannibal massacre” of at least seven civilians in the western Russian village of Ruskoe Poreshnoye, which Ukraine has occupied since last August. Russian soldiers reportedly found bodies inside the basement of an apartment building.
• The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Oleksandr Sersky, said that his army suffers from a shortage of mechanized brigades. He also said that the military mobilization capacity is “not sufficient” to cover the army’s needs, and the gaps are being filled “within reasonable limits” by deploying personnel with other expertise.
• The Ukrainian General Staff accused Russian forces of using munitions equipped with banned chemicals 434 times in Ukraine during December 2024, bringing the total to 5,389 such documented cases since February 2023.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 43 out of 61 Russian drone attacks in a night raid targeting nine regions across Ukraine. No serious damage or injuries were immediately reported.

• Interfax news agency, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that Russian forces took control of the village of Vozdvizhenka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
• The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Russian forces recently advanced into Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces took control of some territory, and the Ukrainian regions of Kubyansk, Liman, Chasiv Yar, Turistich, Kurakhov, and Velika Novoselka. The institute said that Ukrainian forces have since regained the positions they lost in Chasiv Yar and Turetsk.
• ISW also said that Russian volunteer military detachments continue to bolster the manpower of the Russian army by recruiting women to join the war.

Military aid

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again called for “strong support” from Ukraine’s allies and for more US-made Patriot air defense systems. This comes after a week that witnessed more than 1,000 Russian air attacks.