Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,421

Here is wherever things basal connected Thursday, January 15:

Fighting

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a authorities of exigency was being declared for Ukraine’s vigor sector, aft repeated Russian attacks destroyed energy and vigor infrastructure.
• Zelenskyy said helium asked the authorities to reappraisal curfew restrictions during “this highly acold weather”.

• Kateryna Pop, spokeswoman for the Kyiv City Military Administration, said 471 buildings successful Ukraine’s superior remained without vigor connected Wednesday arsenic temperatures again dropped to minus 19 degrees Celsius (-2.2 Fahrenheit) overnight, according to Ukraine’s Ukrinform quality agency.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Development announced the mandatory evacuation of children from 5 settlements successful Ukraine’s front-line Zaporizhia region, according to the Ukrainian Interfax quality agency.
• “In conditions of changeless menace of shelling, this is the lone liable measurement that allows redeeming lives, chiefly children,” Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said, according to Interfax.
• An 84-year-old pistillate and a 65-year-old antheral were injured successful a Russian guided weaponry onslaught connected Tavriyske successful Zaporizhia, determination politician Ivan Fedorov said connected Telegram.
• Russian forces person precocious adjacent Zaliznyanske successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Yablunivka successful Lviv portion and Stepnohirsk successful Zaporizhia, according to Ukrainian battlefield monitoring tract DeepState.
• A Ukrainian onslaught near much than 3,000 radical without energy successful Russian-occupied areas of Zaporizhia, Russian-appointed section authoritative Yevhen Balitsky said connected Telegram.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught deed a powerfulness installation successful Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, leaving respective settlements without electricity, according to Russia’s TASS authorities quality agency.

Politics

• Ukraine’s parliament approved President Zelenskyy’s information of Denys Shmyhal arsenic vigor curate and archetypal lawman premier curate weeks aft dismissing him from the relation of defence minister, which helium had held since July 17, 2025, according to Interfax.
• The parliament besides approved the information of Mykhailo Fedorov arsenic Ukraine’s caller defence minister, according to Interfax. Fedorov is the 4th idiosyncratic to clasp the bureau since Russia began its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.
• Fedorov rapidly outlined criticisms of Ukraine’s defence forces, telling the parliament: “I don’t privation to beryllium a populist, I privation to beryllium a realist”.
• “The Ministry of Defence falls into my hands with minus 300 billion, 2 cardinal Ukrainians who are wanted, and 200,000 are absent without permission (AWOL). Therefore, we request to decide, bash our homework connected the problems that beryllium today, truthful that we tin determination forward,” helium said, according to Interfax.

Diplomacy

• Russia summoned the United Kingdom’s complaint d’affaires successful Moscow without instantly providing a reason, TASS reported connected Wednesday.

Black Sea attacks

• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs connected Wednesday condemned drone strikes connected lipid tankers adjacent a terminal connected its Black Sea seashore and accused Ukraine of attacking commercialized ships.

• “We powerfully condemn yet different violent onslaught by the Kyiv authorities connected commercialized civilian vessels that comply with each norms of planetary law,” the Foreign Ministry said. Ukraine has not commented connected Tuesday’s incident.

• Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry said successful a connection connected Wednesday that 3 tankers heading to a Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal had been deed successful a drone onslaught and urged the United States and Europe to assistance unafraid the transport of oil.
• “The expanding frequence of specified incidents highlights the increasing risks to the functioning of planetary vigor infrastructure,” the ministry said.