It has been the 1431st day of the Ukrainian resistance to the russian military aggression.
What happened in Ukraine today:
Here is operational information of the General Staff as of 4 pm:
On 24 January, the total number of combat engagements was 61.
Kliusy, Gremyach, Khrinivka, Karpovychi in Chernihiv oblast; Kucherivka, Ryzhivka, Rohizne, Iskryskivshchyna, Havrylova Sloboda, Zarichne, Budky, Sosnivka in Sumy oblast, were affected by enemy artillery fire.
Towards Northern Sloboda and Kursk, the enemy carried out one airstrike, dropping three guided bombs and carried out 51 attacks, including two from multiple launch rocket systems.
Towards Southern Sloboda, there were four combat engagements near Starytsia, Vovchanski Khutory, Kruhle and Chuhunivka. One combat engagement is ongoing.
Towards Kupiansk, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our defenders near Pishchane.
Towards Lyman, the invading army carried out six attacks on Ukrainian positions in the vicinity of the settlements of Drobysheve, Zarichne, Torske and towards Druzheliubivka, two clashes are still ongoing.
Towards Slaviansk, the Defense Forces repelled the enemy attack in the vicinity of Zvanivka, the battle is still ongoing.
Towards Kramatorsk, Ukrainian units repelled an assault in the vicinity of the settlement of Orikhovo-Vasylivka.
Towards Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian defenders repelled eight enemy attempts to penetrate Ukrainian defenses in the vicinity of the settlements of Kostiantynivka, Kleban-Byk, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka and Novopavlivka.
Towards Pokrovsk, russian occupiers made 27 attempts to push Ukrainian soldiers from the occupied positions in the vicinity of the settlements of Rodynske, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Filiia, Dorozhne, Shevchenko, Hryshyne, and Ivanivka. In some locations, clashes are currently ongoing.
Towards Oleksandrivka, Ukrainian defenders stopped three assault actions by enemy troops in the vicinity of Zelenyi Hai and Zlahoda.
Towards Huliaipole, the aggressor tried 12 times to advance on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of Huliaipole, Myrne, Nove Zaporizhzhia, Dobropillia, Zelene, Varvarivka, and Zaliznychne. Zirnytsia, Liubytske, Vozdvizhivka, Zaliznychne, and Verkhnia Tersa were under enemy airstrikes.
Towards Orikhiv, Ukrainian defenders repelled the enemy attack near Plavni.
Towards Kherson, the invaders once unsuccessfully tried to improve their position in the area of Antonivskyi Bridge.
Recent war events in the east of Ukraine
Kharkiv oblast
The General Staff reports that russian troops had attacked the positions of the Defense Forces towards Southern Sloboda six times near Starytsia, Vovchanski Khutory, Fiholivka, Kruhle and Chuhunivka.
Towards Kupiansk, the russian army tried to break through the Ukrainian defenses by launching an attack near Pishchane.
There were 136 combat clashes in the oblast.
Towards Southern Sloboda, there were five enemy attacks in the vicinity of the settlements of Prylipka, Vovchanski Khutory, Ambarne and Nesterne.
Towards Kupiansk, there was one enemy attack near Petropavlivka.
Viktor Kovalenko, Head of Zolochiv community, says that the russian federation struck three GABs in an open area near Sosnivka at about 20:40.
This night, the russian army attacked the city of Kharkiv with drones. 25 strikes were recorded on 10 locations. More than 100 enemy drones were observed in the airspace over the region. As a result of the strikes, 19 people were injured, including a 12-year-old boy. Two victims are currently in the hospital. They are being provided with all necessary medical care. Windows were broken in nearby buildings, more than 60 cars were damaged. More than 40 people were evacuated from one of the houses.
Over the past day, the city of Kharkiv and 6 settlements in the oblast were subjected to enemy strikes.
Three people were killed as a result of the shelling, 24 injured, including one child.
In Kharkiv, 19 people were injured, including a 12-year-old boy. In the village of Prudianka, Derhachi community, a 70-year-old man, a 58-year-old woman and a 68-year-old woman were killed, and two 65-year-old and 59-year-old women were also injured; in the village of Spodobivka, Shevchenko community, a 26-year-old man was injured.
The enemy attacked Industrialnyi and Nemyshlianskyi districts of Kharkiv with strike UAVs.
The enemy actively used various types of weapons:
▪️21 UAVs of the Geran-2 type (the exact number is being established);
▪️2 FPV drones;
▪️25 UAVs (the type is being established).
Civil infrastructure facilities were damaged and destroyed:
▪️In Kharkiv, 5 apartment buildings, 21 private houses, 66 cars, 20 garages, power grids, 2 civil enterprises, and the glazing of the windows of a college and a maternity ward of a hospital were damaged;
▪️In Kupiansk region, a residential trailer was damaged (Spodobivka village);
▪️In Kharkiv region, a car was damaged (Prudianka village), 2 cars (Dergachi city), and a garbage truck (Ruska Lozova village);
▪️In Lozova region, the roof of an outbuilding was damaged (Novomykolaivka village);
▪️In Chuhuiv region, a car was damaged (Prolisne village).
The transit evacuation point in Lozova received 65 people per day. A total of 17,142 people have been registered at the Point since it began operating.
Donetsk oblast
On January 23, there were 1,578 enemy strikes on the front line and residential sector.
The following cities were under fire: Druzhkivka, Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, the village of Raihorodok, and the village of Rai-Oleksandrivka.
16 civilian objects were destroyed, including 6 residential buildings.
In Kramatorsk, a civilian was injured, an apartment building and 3 private houses were damaged as a result of enemy attacks.
russia struck Druzhkivka with drones, 2 houses and an infrastructure facility were destroyed.
The enemy attacked Sloviansk with FPV drones – an apartment building and 3 cars were damaged.
The occupiers dropped two GAB-250 aerial bombs on Kostyantynivka – they destroyed an apartment building and an administrative building.
A house was damaged in the village of Raihorodok as a result of an FPV drone strike, and a civilian car was damaged in Rai-Oleksandrivka.
Luhansk oblast
Towards Lyman and Siversk, russians stormed the positions of the Ukrainian Defenders 14 times. They tried to advance near nine settlements: in Luhansk oblast – near Tverdokhlibove. The enemy struck nine times with mortars. In six cases he hit with barrel artillery installations. He used drones and FPV drones.
In Alchevsk, captured since 2014, a significant part of which has been without heating for several days, the power supply also disappeared. The reason is not in the fighting, but in the inaction of the local occupiers and in the lack of attention to the problems of the communal sphere on the part of the russian federation. The accident on the power grid occurred due to excessive load on the system caused by the lack of centralized heating. The boiler rooms, in turn, are not working due to the failure of outdated equipment. It should be noted that the Russians reported on the city’s 100 percent readiness for the heating season back in October.
With the change of garbage removal service provider in Starobilsk, only the tariffs changed – they were increased in 2026. However, the number of natural landfills in the city has not decreased. Garbage, as before, is removed selectively.
What is happening now in the north of Ukraine
Kyiv oblast
According to the head of the Regional Military Administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, on the night of 24 January, the russian army attacked Kyiv and the oblast with missiles and strike UAVs. Four people were injured in the oblast as a result of the attack. Houses in the Boryspil and Brovary districts destroyed. According to the Kyiv oblast police, eight private houses, three cars and a farm building were damaged in the Brovary district.
In Kyiv, one person was killed as a result of the russian night attack, and four injured with three of them hospitalised. Destruction and damage were recorded in the Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Desnianskyi, and Holosiivskyi districts of the city. According to the prosecutor’s office, six residential buildings, a confectionery factory, the premises of the Vernadsky National Library, a penalty yard, storage facilities, and cars were damaged.
In the Holosiivskyi district, the upper floor of a confectionery factory was destroyed: one woman died and two more people were injured. A private residential building was also damaged.
In the Dniprovskyi district, firefighters extinguished a fire on the territory of a garage cooperative. At another address, a petrol tanker caught fire and fuel leaked. The fire was localised. One person was injured.
In the Darnytskyi district, an attack caused damage and a fire in an uninhabited high-rise residential building. The fire was extinguished.
In the Solomianskyi district, an office building was damaged.
The Kyiv City State Administration reported that as a result of a massive enemy attack and damage to critical infrastructure in the capital, nearly 6,000 buildings again remain without heating. There are also problems with water supply on the left bank and partially on the right bank. The most difficult situation is in Troieshchyna in the Desnianskyi district, where there are problems with heat and water supply and electricity. Additional heating points are being set up there, where people will be able to spend the night.
DTEK reported that after a massive attack by the russian federation, 88,000 families in Kyiv were left without electricity. First of all, power is being restored to critical infrastructure, and emergency power cuts are continuing in the capital.
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klychko reported that Warsaw has sent 90 generators of various capacities to Kyiv to help overcome the emergency caused by damage to critical infrastructure as a result of russian attacks.
According to the RMA, the Bila Tserkva community received the first four buses as part of the partnership between Kyiv oblast and the Île-de-France region. The buses will replace trolleybuses on routes and reduce the load on the city and region’s power system. In total, Kyiv oblast will receive 260 modern buses during the year. The first batch of 30 buses, which arrived on New Year’s Eve, will soon be transferred to communities in the oblast and put into service.
Zhytomyr oblast
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Sumy oblast
Artem Kobzar, Acting Head of Sumy community, reported that on 24 January, russian forces struck the centre of Stetskivka in Sumy community, hitting a non-residential building. A fire broke out at the site. No casualties were reported.
The Regional Military Administration informed that as a result of russian shelling over the past day, women aged 58 and 65 were injured in Sumy community due to enemy UAV attacks.
Over the past 24 hours, from the morning of 23 January to the morning of 24 January, russian forces carried out more than 80 attacks on 36 settlements across 18 territorial communities of the oblast. The highest number of attacks was recorded in Sumy and Shostka regions. The enemy used artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, FPV drones, UAVs, and guided aerial bombs. Over the day, air raid alerts in the oblast lasted for 21 hours and 47 minutes.
Civilian infrastructure was damaged or destroyed as follows:
- In Sumy community, a multi-storey residential building, civilian infrastructure facilities, and non-residential premises were damaged;
- In Svesa community, a private passenger vehicle was damaged;
- In Putyvl community, private residential houses were damaged;
- In Boromlia community, a private passenger vehicle was damaged;
- In Hlukhiv community, civilian infrastructure facilities and multi-storey residential buildings were damaged;
- In Mykolaivka rural community, a private passenger vehicle was damaged;
- In Seredyna-Buda community, a private residential house and a civilian infrastructure facility were damaged;
- In Znob-Novhorodske community, a civilian infrastructure facility was damaged.
According to the Regional Military Administration, nearly 100 “Sting” interceptor drones were delivered to border guards defending Sumy oblast. Approximately UAH 10m. was allocated for the procurement of these drones.
The Regional Military Administration reported that over the past day, 115 people were evacuated from border communities by local authorities in cooperation with units of the State Emergency Service, the National Police, and civil society organisations.
The National Police in Sumy oblast announced that the “White Angels” crew evacuated a 20-year-old man along with his pets from Bilopillia community. russian guided aerial bombs fell near his home. He was not at home at the time of the strike. The man sought assistance from the police special unit, whose officers arrived at the scene and evacuated him together with his dog and cat.
Chernihiv oblast
Andrii Podorvan, Adviser to Head of Chernihiv Regional Military Administration, said that over the past 24 hours, the Defence Forces shot down more than 120 russian attack drones in the skies over Chernihiv oblast. According to him, five russian UAV strikes were recorded in the oblast, including a hit on an energy facility in Nizhyn region on the morning of 24 January.
The company Chernihivoblenergo reported that russian forces damaged a critical energy facility in Nizhyn region, leaving hundreds of thousands of consumers without electricity. Energy workers are carrying out restoration works; however, due to the security situation, the process may be prolonged.
The cities of Chernihiv, Nizhyn, Bakhmach, and Slavutych were left without power on the morning of 24 January as a result of a russian attack. Backup power sources were activated, and Points of Invincibility are being deployed.
The Regional Military Administration informed that over the course of 23 January, russian forces struck Semenivka. A municipal vehicle used for snow clearance was damaged by an FPV drone strike. In the evening, homes were damaged by Molniya-type UAV strikes. Overnight, a Heran-type UAV exploded in one of the courtyards, destroying an outbuilding and damaging a residential house.
According to Chernihiv Border Guard Detachment, over the course of 23 January, russian forces attacked Semenivka and Snovsk border communities of Chernihiv oblast. The enemy carried out strikes by Molniya-type UAVs (one explosion), FPV drones (19 explosions), and dropped explosive devices from UAVs (three explosions). Semenivka town and eight villages came under fire.
Recent events in the central regions of Ukraine
Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Mykola Lukashuk, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, reported that the enemy attacked Nikopol and Pokrovske communities by drones, multiple launch rocket systems, and artillery. A fire broke out, with a private house burning. Infrastructure, an administrative building, another private house, and a power line were damaged.
The enemy also attacked Nikopol, Marhanets, Myrove, Chervonohryhorivka, and Pokrovska communities by drones and artillery. A 73-year-old woman and men aged 61 and 51 were injured. A 37-year-old man was rescued by emergency responders. A fire occurred. Seven private houses, an outbuilding, vehicles, an administrative building, and a power line were damaged. The enemy struck Yuriiivka community by UAVs, damaging a power line.
Vinnytsia oblast
In Vinnytsia, the community paid tribute to fallen defender of Ukraine Vladyslav Moroz. From the first days of the full-scale invasion, he defended the state and served with the 120th Territorial Defence Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was killed while carrying out a combat mission in Donetsk oblast.
Kirovohrad oblast
Andrii Raikovych, Head of Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration, reported In Kirovohrad oblast, air defence forces shot down russian UAVs.
Cherkasy oblast
Ihor Taburets, Head of Cherkasy Regional Military Administration, said that overnight in Cherkasy oblast, defenders shot down eight russian UAVs.
Latest news from the front of the southern regions of Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia oblast
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on 23 January, the Defence Forces repelled 23 russian attacks on Huliaipole and Orikhiv regions. In particular, combat engagements took place in the areas of Solodke and Huliaipole, as well as in the directions of Sviatopetrivka, Zelene and Varvarivka.
Based on the information provided by Zaporizhzhia RMA, on 23 January, the russian military carried out more than 756 strikes on the territory of 29 towns and villages in Zaporizhzhia oblast. In particular, 396 UAVs of various types, predominantly FPV drones, attacked Zaporizhzhia, Kushuhum, Novomykolaivka, Ostrovske, Mariivka, Novooleksandrivka, Stepnohirsk, Prymorske, Stepove, Mali Shcherbaky, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Shcherbaky, Novodanylivka, Novoandriivka, Mala Tokmachka, Charivne, Zelene, Bilohiria, Dorozhnianka, Varvarivka, Solodke and Dobropillia.
The State Emergency Service reported that rescuers evacuated a man with limited mobility and his wife from the frontline Preobrazhenska community. The couple was forced to leave their home for the second time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. They were taken to a transit hub, where they received the necessary assistance.
Mykolaiv oblast
Referring to Mykolaiv RMA, the russian forces attacked Ochakiv and Kutsurub communities 4 times by FPV drones. There were no casualties reported.
Kherson oblast
According to Kherson RMA, at approximately 1pm, russian occupiers shelled Dniprovskyi district of Kherson. As a result of the attack, a 74-year-old man who was in his car sustained a concussion, blast injuries and a closed craniocerebral injury. He was transported to hospital in moderate condition.
At around 11am, russian forces attacked Shyroka Balka of Stanislav community by a UAV. As a result of the strike, a 41-year-old man sustained blast injuries and shrapnel wounds to the abdomen.
This morning, in Tarasa Shevchenka village of Beryslav community, russian forces attacked a postal vehicle by a UAV,. As a result of the strike, the vehicle was damaged.
At approximately 8:20am, russian forces shelled Dniprovskyi district of Kherson. A 55-year-old woman was hit near the entrance of a residential building, sustaining blast injuries and a shrapnel wound to her leg. She received medical assistance and was released for outpatient treatment.
On 23 January, due to russian aggression, 6 people were injured. Under enemy drone terror, air strikes and artillery shelling were Antonivka, Molodizhne, Sadove, Zelenivka, Inzhenerne, Prydniprovske, Sofiivka, Kizomys, Dniprovske, Ivanivka, Mykilske, Tokarivka, Beryslav, Ukrainka, Urozhayne, Kostyrka, Stepne, Khreshchenivka, Osokorivka, Havrylivka, Lvove, Tiahynka, Chervonyi Maiak, Vesele, Kozatske and Kherson. The russian forces struck critical and social infrastructure, and residential areas across the oblast, damaging 3 high-rise buildings and 5 private houses.
Latest news for today in the western regions of Ukraine
Volyn oblast
The death of Hero Stepan Rymarchuk, courageous warrior from the village of Oleksiivka, born in 1984, has been confirmed. The soldier was killed in Donetsk oblast on 28 October, 2024.
Zakarpattia oblast
The 1st national resistance training course for employees of critical enterprises has been completed in the oblast. Over 200 specialists from local companies successfully completed the training according to the adapted curriculum.
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
Street lighting in Piadytska community has been temporarily suspended since 16 January. This decision was made to reduce electricity consumption and support household consumers.
Lviv oblast
Communities of Lviv region, together with business representatives, set a record in Ukraine for the amount of donations raised during a single charity event in support of the Defense Forces. The auction was organized by the team of the Birds of Victory charity project. Through joint efforts, over UAH 72m was raised.
Rivne oblast
Rescuers and psychologists from Rivne Oblast State Emergency Service work at Invincibility Points in Kyiv. Heat, hot tea, gadget charging, and internet – 24/7. Everything is available at Invincibility Points from Rivne oblast. Psychologists are nearby to help cope with stress and anxiety.
Ternopil oblast
15 Heating Points were established in Ternopil, which will start operating in case of emergency situations, shelling, or power outages. They will provide warmth, hot tea, phone charging and internet access.
Khmelnytskyi oblast
Khmelnytskyi City Council has allocated funds for social and preventive work, the provision of social, psychological services and primary legal assistance to vulnerable groups of the population, internally displaced persons and family members of military personnel. This amounts to UAH 15.0m.
Chernivtsi oblast
Chernivtsi City Council presented In Glory to Chernivtsi medals to the fallen Heroes. The awards were presented to families of the soldiers.
International support of Ukraine in the russian-Ukrainian war (russia’s invasion of Ukraine)
The 2nd day of talks between Ukraine, the US and the russian federation took place in the UAE. The meeting was again held behind closed doors. The parameters of ending the war and the involvement of the United States in monitoring this process were discussed.
In 2025, over 1,700 belarusians and russians were recognized as posing a threat to state security in Lithuania.
Materials compiled by Tetyana Pidgorna, Olena Reka, Yana Hushchyna, Tamara Moshkovska, Sofia Ratynska, Ioanna Kryvenko, Helena Albahachiieva, Kristina Maknynia
Translated by Tetyana Pidgorna, Yana Hushchyna, Alla Litrovnyk, Liudmyla Stadnykova, Ilona Korolevska, Tetiana Moiseienko, Marharyta Koval, Tetiana Kurbatova
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