Here are the latest updates as of Sunday, February 1:
Fighting
Russian attacks on Ukraine killed one person and injured seven in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukraine’s emergency services. High-rise buildings, private homes, shops, and cafes were also damaged.
One person was injured in shelling in the Zaporizhzhia region, where explosions also destroyed three residential buildings and twelve houses, the service said.
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces carried out 13 attacks across multiple areas, killing at least two people and wounding five, according to the regional governor, Vadym Filashkin.
A total of 172 people, including 35 children, were evacuated from the front line in the Donetsk region, Filashkin said.
Russian strikes destroyed state railway infrastructure in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions, a move President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was intended to “cut the connections between our cities.”
A total of 303 combat clashes occurred on Saturday, including 38 airstrikes, 119 glide bombs, 2,510 kamikaze drones, and 2,437 attacks on settlements and troop positions, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a post on Telegram.
Russian forces have taken the village of Petrivka in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and the village of Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Al Jazeera could not verify this claim.
Russian forces have also taken control of at least 24 Ukrainian settlements since the beginning of the year, most of them in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russia’s TASS news agency also claimed.
Two people were injured when a car was struck by a Ukrainian drone in Russia’s Belgorod region, TASS reported.
Energy
Parts of Ukraine, including at least 3,500 buildings in Kyiv, were without power throughout Saturday following a fault on an interconnection line with Moldova, officials reported.
The Kyiv metro was shut down, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, and water and electricity supplies were also cut in the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Although water supplies in the capital were restored around 10:30 p.m. local time (2030 GMT), energy workers were still working to restore heating to about 2,600 households, Klitschko said.
Ukraine is investigating the outage, but “no external interference or cyberattack has been confirmed at this time,” the Ukrainian president said. “Most indications point to weather-related causes: icing on the lines and automatic shutdowns.”
SpaceX has temporarily restricted the operation of its Starlink system in Ukraine at the request of the country’s Defense Ministry to prevent their use in Russian drone attacks. Serhiy Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister on technology, announced the move on Facebook.
“I apologize again to those who are temporarily affected by these measures, but they are very important and necessary now for national security,” Beskrestnov wrote.
Politics & Diplomacy
US envoy Steve Witkoff said he held a “productive and constructive meeting” with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Florida.
“We are encouraged by the meeting and by Russia’s efforts to secure peace in Ukraine,” Witkoff said, adding that he was “grateful” for US President Donald Trump’s “key leadership role in the search for a lasting peace.”
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum also attended the talks.
Ukraine is “in regular contact with the American side” and is “awaiting specific details from the US about further talks scheduled for next week,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address.
“Ukraine is ready to work in all effective formats. What matters is the result and the fact that the talks can take place,” he added.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said on X that he spoke by phone with Liechtenstein’s Deputy Prime Minister Sabine Monauni, discussing “progress in peace talks and the urgent needs of Ukraine’s energy system.”
“We also paid special attention to the issue of pressure for further sanctions against Russia and the joint international efforts to hold it accountable,” Sybiha said.