Russo-Ukrainian War: List of Major Events – Day 1063 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Here are the main developments on the 1,063rd day of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Wednesday, January 22:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched four missiles and 131 drones towards Ukraine overnight. The Air Force also said that 72 drones were destroyed, while 59 aircraft disappeared without reaching their targets.
• The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said that its forces Intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones In six Russian regions overnight. Six drones were shot down in Voronezh, where falling debris, according to the region’s governor, Alexander Gusev, sparked a fire just six days after the remains of another intercepted drone caused a fire earlier. No injuries were reported.
• The Kiev military claimed responsibility for the attack on an aviation manufacturing plant in Russia’s Smolensk region where “combat aircraft are modernized and manufactured,” as well as the attack on Voronezh that led to a fire in a fuel depot. The Ukrainian General Staff said the attacks were coordinated between drone units and special forces.
• Russian news agency TASS said that Russian forces captured the village of Vovkov in eastern Ukraine, just 10 kilometers southwest of the city of Pokrovsk, which is a major supply center for Ukrainian forces. Moscow’s army also took control of Shevchenko earlier, another village close to the center, TASS reported.
• Russia’s Orenburg regional authorities have asked residents to take shelter from a possible Ukrainian drone attack. Russian strategic missile force sites are located in the region.

• Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it had arrested the Ukrainian army’s chief psychiatrist over corruption allegations. The suspect is accused of failing to disclose about $1 million in “unexplained assets,” which authorities believe have accumulated since the start of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army Valery Gerasimov visited a tank division and a motorized rifle brigade fighting near the Ukrainian supply center in Pokrovsk. The footage showed Gerasimov arriving by helicopter and handing the medals to the soldiers.
• Russian air defense units destroyed seven Ukrainian drones over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, in addition to nine aircraft over Rostov in southern Russia. No injuries or damage were reported.
• The French news agency quoted a Kiev military spokesman as saying that about 229 Ukrainian civilians are still present in the city of Chasiv Yar, which is under intense Russian fire. Agence France-Presse reported that many of those still in the city are either elderly or have special needs.

Politics and diplomacy

• US President Donald Trump said he plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters that Putin is “destroying Russia” by refusing to reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine. Trump said he believed “Russia would be in big trouble” and expressed concern about Moscow’s economy.
• Trump warned Putin that he would impose new sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin refuses to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. Trump also said the United States was considering sending weapons to Ukraine, but added that the European Union should do more to support Kiev.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping Made a video call Yuri Ushakov, foreign policy aide in the Kremlin, said that the two presidents discussed during the meeting the prospects for a possible peace agreement to end Moscow’s war with Ukraine. Ushakov said the two leaders also touched on issues related to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, Syria and Taiwan.
• Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency quoted Ushakov as saying that the Trump administration has not yet contacted Moscow regarding the meeting. “We are ready,” he reportedly said.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, told delegates that Europe must establish itself as a strong global leader, develop a common defense policy, and be willing to increase defense spending to ensure peace and security for itself and for Europe. Others.
• In his speech, Zelensky also asked Trump’s commitment to NATO European security, adding that Ukraine is working to arrange a meeting with the US President.

• Zelensky said that Ukraine would not yield to Russian demands to reduce Kiev’s military capacity in any possible future peace agreement. “This is what he wants. We will not let that happen,” Zelensky said in Davos.
• Zelensky also told delegates in Davos that at least 200,000 European peacekeeping troops would be needed as part of any settlement to end the war with Russia. He said: “Otherwise, nothing.”
• TASS reported that Putin made a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. They are said to have discussed joint projects between the two countries and the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine.