Russia-Ukraine War: List Of Key Events – Day 1,066 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events on day 1,066 of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Saturday, January 25:

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Struggle

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its troops had fought their way to the strategically important town of Velyka Novosilka in eastern Ukraine after a months-long battle.
Moscow said it intercepted 121 Ukrainian drones, including 37 in Bryansk, Russia, 20 in Ryazan and 17 in the country’s Kursk and Saratov regions.
Ukraine’s military says Russian forces are failing to outflank its forces in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, as Russia attempts to cut off supply lines to Ukrainian defenders in the city. The area has served as a crucial logistics hub for Ukrainian forces in the area.
An analysis of Project Oryx suggests that Russia has lost 20,000 units of military equipment since February 2022, of which 15,051 units were directly destroyed in the conflict with Ukraine and 852 damaged.
The BBC and independent media Mediazona have identified the names of 90,019 Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine, adding 1,964 names to their list since the last update in mid-January.
Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruiting reforms that will allow those between the ages of 18 and 25 – who are currently exempt from mobilization – to join the military in an effort to bolster the country’s fighting force.
Ukrainian military officials say the reforms are necessary as the country currently operates under recruiting systems inherited from the Soviet Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested meeting in person with US President Donald Trump to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Putin said he always had a “pragmatic and trusting” relationship with Trump and supported his view that he was the real winner of the 2020 US election.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russian president of trying to manipulate Trump to ensure an end to the war on Moscow’s terms.

The United States on Friday froze all foreign aid for 90 days in a sweeping executive order that also halted military development and assistance to Ukraine, including billions of dollars in weapons.
Sales of American military equipment to foreign governments in 2024 rose 29 percent to a record $318.7 billion, the State Department said, as countries sought to replenish stocks sent to Ukraine and prepare for other conflicts.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in a central square in the Slovak capital to protest Prime Minister Robert Fico’s policy shift towards Russia. Demonstrations also took place in 20 other cities and almost reached the scale of the protests held in 2018 that forced Fico from office.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, pardoned 15 prisoners two days before elections, which are expected to extend his more than 30 years in power.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened to block the renewal of EU sanctions on Russia.

Denmark agreed to discuss Arctic security with the United States, despite a heated call between Donald Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in early January, where the American president said he wanted Greenland.

Trump reiterated a call for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce oil prices to hurt the finances of oil-rich Russia and help end the war in Ukraine.
The leader of Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestria region, hit by gas and heating outages, said on Friday the country’s remaining gas reserves would run out just days after Moscow’s Gazprom ended shipments.