Victory Chronicles-DAY 1429

Russian forces conducted a one-way attack with a drone strike against a 16-story residential building in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 22, injuring seven civilians, including a minor, and causing structural damage and fires.

Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov of the city of 1 million people said the strike affected multiple floors of the high-rise, trapping residents and prompting emergency response operations. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported fires in two apartments covering approximately 200 square meters, with 16 civilians evacuated from upper floors.

Among the wounded was a 14-year-old girl in stable condition. Two residents, aged 64 and 88, were hospitalized with moderate injuries. Local authorities later confirmed the casualty total had increased to seven.

Around 3,000 residential buildings in Kyiv remain without heat. Nearly 3,000 apartment buildings in Kyiv were still without heating as of Jan. 22, prolonging arduous hardship for residents during winter cold following Russian strikes on energy infrastructure. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said slightly fewer than 3,000 high-rise buildings remained without heat that morning, though crews had restored heating to 227 buildings overnight.

Emergency power outages were also in effect across the capital, disrupting daily life for families, elderly residents and people working from home. Utility workers and power engineers were operating around the clock to bring heat and electricity back online, Klitschko said.

Kyiv, a city of nearly 3 million people and Ukraine’s most populous city, has faced repeated attacks on its power and heating systems as Russia continues to target civilian energy infrastructure, a strategy Ukrainian officials say is aimed at wearing down morale during the coldest months of the year.

Additionally, Kyiv government officials have called Russia’s targeted attacks a war crime and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared a state of energy crisis, an issue he has recently brought up at the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Russian drone strike kills volunteers delivering bread in Kharkiv region. A Russian drone struck a civilian vehicle that was delivering bread near Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv region on Jan. 22, killing two local volunteers, regional officials said. The attack occurred late morning at the entrance to the population center, destroying the vehicle and killing two men, who were 35 and 63 years old, and who were delivering food to residents who remain near a hot zone of the front line.

Around the same time, Russian forces targeted another civilian car in nearby Ruska Lozova. Two men had managed to flee before the vehicle was destroyed. One, a 70-year-old local resident, later sought medical care for non-life-threatening injuries.

Ukrainian forces strike Russian oil terminal and air defense sites. Ukrainian defense forces struck a Russian oil terminal and several air defense systems overnight on Jan. 22, targeting infrastructure that is used to buttress Moscow’s war effort, Ukraine’s military said. The General Staff said the attack hit the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal near the settlement of Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar region, causing explosions and a fire. The terminal is used to supply fuel to Russian forces, and the extent of the damage was still being assessed. Ukraine’s military defense agency usually posts satellite imagery after such aerial attacks for geolocation and confirmation purposes. 

Ukrainian forces also struck multiple Russian air defense radar systems in Russian-occupied Crimea, including long-range radar stations near Yevpatoria and rural settlements in the peninsula’s west and center. 

Key Takeaways

1. U.S. officials will meet with Ukrainian officials on Jan. 21 and 22 and with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin on Jan. 22 to continue peace negotiations.
2. The Kremlin remains committed to its original war aims and is not publicly showing any new willingness to commit to meaningful compromises to end its war against Ukraine.
3. Reports of the draft list of the top United Russia candidates for the Sept. 2026 State Duma elections have reportedly generated internal Kremlin discussions that not only reflect factional maneuvering to gain power but also show the Kremlin’s concern about the Russian public’s attitude toward a protracted war.
4. The U.S. seized another oil tanker involved with shipping sanctioned Russian oil off the coast of Venezuela.
5. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhzhia region. Russian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area and in western Zaporizhzhia region.

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