Here are the latest updates as of Friday, January 30:
Fighting
Russian drone attacks killed two women and a man in Ukraine’s front-line Zaporizhzhia region, the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, said on the Telegram messaging app. The attacks also sparked fires and destroyed some homes, Fedorov said.
In a subsequent post, Fedorov said Russian forces had carried out a total of 841 attacks on 34 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region over the past day, injuring 16 people.
Russian strikes killed an elderly woman and injured three people in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the head of the city’s defense council, Oleksandr Vilkul, said. Kryvyi Rih, southeast of Kharkiv, is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Russian strikes also killed one person in Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region and one in Khatnie in the Kharkiv region, local officials said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
The death toll from a Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine, on Tuesday has risen to four, with a man injured in the strike dying in hospital on Thursday, the head of the Odesa military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed a staff member at a hospital in Grayvoron, Russia’s Belgorod region emergency services said.
Russian forces shot down 111 Ukrainian drones over a 24-hour period, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Energy Crisis
Some 454 residential buildings in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, remain without heating, with nighttime temperatures expected to drop to minus 23 degrees Celsius (minus 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit) this week, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
President Zelenskyy said Thursday he expects Russia to honor a previously agreed-upon pause in shelling of Kyiv and other cities for a week due to freezing winter weather, as announced by US President Donald Trump.
“Our teams discussed this in the UAE. We expect these agreements to be implemented,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “Measures to de-escalate the situation help move towards a real end to the war,” he added.
Trump had earlier said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to pause shelling of Kyiv for a week due to freezing winter weather. “I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and surrounding towns for a week, and he agreed,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting, noting it is “unusually cold” in the region.
Ceasefire Talks
Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,000 fallen soldiers from Russia in the most recent prisoner exchange, the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirmed.
Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky also confirmed that “the bodies of 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers were handed over to Ukraine under the Istanbul agreements.”
“The bodies of 38 fallen Russian soldiers were handed over to Russia,” Medinsky said.
Moscow has not seen the ceasefire document Ukraine calls the “20-point plan,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that he believes the document has been “changed” by Ukraine and its allies. “We have not seen it in its entirety,” he said.