Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,422

Here is wherever things basal connected Friday, January 16:

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 2 workers from a state-owned pharmacy arsenic they were transporting medicines to Polohy successful a Russian-occupied country of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Russia’s authorities quality bureau TASS reports.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught injured 3 radical successful Russia’s front-line Belgorod region, the determination task unit reported, according to TASS.
• Russian forces dropped a guided weaponry connected Bilopillia, successful Ukraine’s Sumy region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring astatine slightest 4 others, the determination prosecutor’s bureau said connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said that caller powerfulness outages were affecting customers successful the Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions pursuing an overnight Russian attack. Network restrictions remained successful spot successful the superior Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and the Odesa region, the ministry added successful a statement.
• Ihor Terekhov, the politician of Ukraine’s second-biggest city, Kharkiv, said connected Telegram that Russian forces destroyed a ample installation of “critical vigor infrastructure”, without specifying which benignant of installation was struck.
• Kateryna Pop, spokeswoman for the Kyiv City Military Administration, said that 287 residential buildings stay without heating successful Kyiv much than a week aft a monolithic Russian onslaught damaged infrastructure there, and arsenic temperatures proceed to autumn to -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit) overnight.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the nationalist authorities would instrumentality implicit work for Kyiv’s vigor arsenic the metropolis had not responded rapidly capable to the existent crisis, according to the Ukrinform quality site.
• A Ukrainian onslaught near adjacent to 87,000 radical without energy successful Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, Russian-appointed authoritative Yevhen Balitsky wrote connected Telegram.
• Oleksandr Kovalenko, the spokesperson for the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration, said that much than 500 radical volition request to beryllium evacuated from 2 districts of Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhia portion by aboriginal February, according to Ukrinform. More than 700 radical person already been evacuated since the opening of January, including 480 children, helium added.

Politics and diplomacy

• President Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video code that “Ukraine has ne'er been and volition ne'er beryllium a stumbling artifact to peace”, appearing to refute comments made by United States President Donald Trump a time earlier.
• “When Russian strikes are aimed astatine breaking our vigor strategy and our people, it is Russia that indispensable beryllium enactment nether pressure,” Zelenskyy added.
• Trump told the Reuters quality bureau connected Wednesday that helium believed Russian President Vladimir Putin was “ready to marque a deal. I deliberation Ukraine is little acceptable to marque a deal”.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) main Kristalina Georgieva told the Reuters quality bureau during a sojourn to Kyiv that she expects to inquire the fund’s enforcement committee to o.k. a caller $8.1bn lending programme for Ukraine wrong weeks.

• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said successful a station connected X that helium had spoken to Zelenskyy “about the vigor concern successful Ukraine, with Russia’s attacks causing unspeakable quality suffering, arsenic good arsenic connected the ongoing efforts to bring an extremity to the war”.

• “We’re committed to ensuring that Ukraine continues to get the important enactment needed to support contiguous and yet unafraid a lasting peace,” Rutte said.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said that France is present providing two-thirds of quality accusation to Ukraine, mostly replacing the US, which until past twelvemonth had delivered the bulk of those services.

Oil and gas

• Greece’s shipping ministry warned its ships to “take the highest imaginable information measures” successful the Black Sea region, pursuing caller drone attacks connected lipid tankers there, which Russia has blamed connected Ukraine, according to Reuters.
• Russia’s national fund revenues from lipid and state dropped by 24 percent successful 2025 to the lowest level since 2020, according to Finance Ministry data, arsenic lipid prices fell portion the rouble appreciated.