Kyiv residents are sheltering in the metro during missile and drone attacks. Photo Reuters / Alina Smutko.
- Kirill Dmitriev, special representative of the President of Russia, held talks with Steven Witkoff, special envoy of the President of the United States, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the American leader, as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, which started on January 19. Journalists were not allowed to attend the meeting. Witkoff stated after the discussions that the negotiations were progressing positively, while Dmitriev described them as constructive, but the details of the discussions were not disclosed.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he could participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos if the necessary documents for signing are prepared.
- According to estimates by Bloomberg, since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022, the value of the Central Bank of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves has increased by more than $216 billion, which is comparable to the amount of Russian sovereign assets frozen in Europe.
- In Adygea, eight people, including a child, were injured as a result of a fire caused by a drone attack.
- Russian forces struck the Dnipro district of Kherson with a drone, resulting in one man being injured.
- A fire occurred at the Afipsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar region as a result of a drone attack.
- IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reported that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was disconnected from external power supply after the attack.
- As a result of a strike on Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed.
- Energy facilities were damaged during the attack on Belgorod.
- On the morning of January 20, Russian military forces shelled the Odesa region, hitting residential areas and energy facilities.
- By the evening of January 20, over a million residents in Kyiv were left without electricity following Russian attacks, as reported by the President of Ukraine on Telegram.
- According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, after the nighttime attack on January 20, 5,635 apartment buildings were left without heating.
- A court in St. Petersburg sentenced 17-year-old schoolgirl Eva Bagrova to four years in prison for publishing photographs of participants in the "Russian Volunteer Corps" at school.
