Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events – Day 1,068 | news

Here are the key developments on the 1,068th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Monday, January 27:

Fighting

• Regional Military Director in Kiev Vadim Velashkin said that Russian artillery fire in eastern Ukraine killed at least one woman in the city of Pokrovsk and wounded four people in the neighboring town of Kostantinivka. According to Ukrainian military analyst Andriy Rychenko, Pokrovsk is an economic target for Russia.
• The Ukrainian army said that Moscow units launched 38 attacks with artillery support at various points against Ukrainian defense lines.
• Ukraine said its armed forces, along with the country’s defense intelligence, repeatedly struck Russia’s Rezyan oil refinery for a second time after its initial overnight attack on the facility. Kyiv said that the oil refinery is one of the four largest in the Russian Federation.
• Russian media reported to the Defense Ministry in Moscow that it had captured the settlements of Zelin and Velika Novoselka in eastern Ukraine.

• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has, for the third time in less than a year, replaced the commander of the Operational Strategic Group of Khortia responsible for the defense of Albekrovsk, which now risks falling into Russian hands. He called Major General Michaelo Drabati the new commander of the ground forces.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelensky, in a press conference with Moldovan President Mia Sandu, said Kiev was willing to supply coal to Transnistria at low prices or even for free if the separatist enclave would supply Ukraine with electricity in return. He also offered to send a team of specialists to help expand the scope of electricity production at the power plant.
• Members of a Kremlin-linked Telegram channel — including its founder Mikhail Zvinchuk — visited Iraq over the past week in efforts to cultivate Russian influence there, the Institute for the Study of War reported. The team is said to have met with several Iraqi officials, including Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shea Al-Sudani.
• Polish President Andrzej Duda told Al Jazeera that NATO member states must raise their defense spending by at least 3 percent of GDP to build a security zone against “the birth of Russian imperialism.”
• Exit polls showed Belarusian President Lukashenko, whose administration is a close ally of Russia, on track to extend his time in power with 87.6 percent of the vote in the country’s presidential election. Lukashenko also said he had “no regrets” about allowing Russia to use Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine in 2022.