Here are the most important developments on 1,071. Day of the full invasion of Ukraine in Russia in Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Thursday, January 30th:
Battle
- According to a drone attack on a house in the Belgorodic region of Russia, which bordered to Ukraine, a woman and her two -year -old child were said to be killed in the Belgorodic region, said the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. The attack supposedly injured two people.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said its air defense systems had destroyed 104 Ukrainian drones over the night. A man was supposedly injured with a “non -penetrating breast wound”. Buildings and cars were also damaged in the drone attacks.
- Vasily Anokhin, the mayor of Smolensk in West Russia, said that the Smolensk nuclear power plant, the largest electricity generation in northwestern Russia, was part of Kyiv’s destinations of the attack overnight. Anokhin said that the unmanned aerial combat vehicle had been destroyed.
- The Kyiv military claimed 29 of the 57 drones attacked by Russia at one night, while 14 could not achieve any defined goals. According to Ukraine, Russia also started a ballistic Iskander M rocket.
- The Ukrainian military also said that an oil refinerie in the Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region had hit, which led to a great fire. The regional governor Gleb Nikitin confirmed the fire and said that rubble of a destroyed drone lit the fire.
- Russia’s Andreapol Oil Pumping Station was also affected by a Ukrainian drone strike, which led to an oil leak and fire. A rocket bearing device was also hit in the Tver region, which led to a series of explosions.
- Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said that debris from a destroyed Russian drone had fallen near a U -Bahn station in the Darnytskyi district in the capital of Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Kyiv was under air raid for half an hour.
- The Russian media reported that Moscow’s troops took control of the Novoiielyzavetivka village in the Donetsk Region Eastern Ukraine.
- Oleh Kiper, governor of the Odesa region of Ukraine, said a Russian attack overnight that aimed at the port infrastructure of the area was damaged. Kiper did not report victims.
Courtyard
- The AFP news agency reported that Russian civil servants met relatives of civilians who are caught in the Course region occupied in Ukraine. This is done in the midst of criticism of the government’s efforts and coordinated social media campaigns of the families who address the return of their relatives.
Russian oil and gas
- The European Commission decided against the ban on Russian liquefied gas (LNG) in its recent sanctions after the Member States had said that they were secured according to alternatives before the ban was imposed. However, Russian aluminum, video games and joysticks were on the list of forbidden objects.
- Moldovan gas supplier Moldovagaz said that an agreement with a supplier in Transnistria had made to resume gas deliveries to the country’s separatist enclave. According to the company, an initial delivery of 3 million cubic meters of gas on credit was agreed.
Politics and diplomacy
- The Australian National Oscar Jenkins, who had been reported after being captured by Russian armed forces in Ukraine, is “alive and custody,” said the country’s foreign minister, Penny Wong. However, she said that they “still have serious concerns for Mr. Jenkins as a prisoner of war”.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the US President Donald Trump to stand on Kyiv’s side, the “side of justice”. He said Ukraine needed wider security guarantees and added that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not afraid of Europe.
- The Associated Press news agency reported that western officials warned Ukraine of a loss of trust in the country via Kyiv’s escalating internal feud between the Minister of Defense and the Procurement Head.