[Korrespondent] 20:50 Security Service officers dismantled a large-scale mobilization evasion scheme in Kyiv. The first deputy head of one of the capital's district state administrations was detained.
By forging documents, the official fictitiously "enrolled" clients into military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and later organized their deregistration from military records based on fictitious medical diagnoses.
The cost of such a "service" was from 15,000 to 20,000 dollars per client. To organize the transaction, the person involved used his own connections in the district CCC, and to prepare the forgeries, he involved an accomplice.
19.26 Ukraine and Russia are "moderately close" to concluding a peace agreement. US President Donald Trump stated this during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The American leader noted that "there is enormous hatred" between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
"Regarding Ukraine and Russia, there is tremendous hatred between President Zelensky and President Putin. This is not good. This is not good for a settlement. We know from the experience of negotiations that there is an abnormal hatred," he said.
At the same time, Trump believes that the parties are "reasonably close" to concluding a peace agreement. The US President added that Russia wants to conclude a deal, and that Ukraine wants to conclude a deal. However, it is a very difficult balance, and it is important to stop the bloodshed.
"So I think they're at a point now - I'm going to meet with President Zelensky later today - they (Ukraine and Russia - ed.) are at a point now where they can come together and make a deal. And if they don't do it, they're stupid. That goes for both of them (Putin and Zelensky - ed.). I know they're not stupid, but if they don't do it, they're stupid," Trump said.
18.46 An air defense system has been located on the territory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus since the summer of 2025, which, according to satellite images, is likely a Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system.
According to journalists from the Schema project, the arrangement of positions for the air defense system on the territory of the enterprise began back in January 2025, and in August the anti-aircraft missile complex itself appeared there.
In terms of dimensions and shadow of the object, it corresponds to the Russian Tor system. Most likely, this is a modern Tor-M2, which is manufactured, in particular, on the chassis of the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant.
18.42 Propagandists are spreading a fake about the alleged recall of F-16s transferred to Ukraine by Denmark to Greenland, publishing an edited video with a replaced audio track. The Center for Countering Disinformation reports this .
Russian propagandists are distributing a video purportedly from the Danish TV channel TV2 Nord, where TV presenter Pia Beltoft allegedly reports that "Denmark plans to take back the F-16 fighters transferred to Ukraine and transfer them to Greenland because of Trump's statements.
While in reality this information is not true.
"Propagandists took the original TV2 Nord broadcast and replaced the audio track with a fabricated one. There is no news about the F-16 recall on the channel's official website or on its social networks. The Danish Ministry of Defense has also not made any similar statements," the CPD noted.
17:44 On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Kyiv , not in Davos, as announced by US President Donald Trump. This was stated by the head of state's communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukrinform reports.
At the same time, the meeting between Zelensky and Trump in Davos is still scheduled to take place, but not on Wednesday, according to media reports.
17.33 Law enforcement officers have identified a Russian military man who committed violence against residents of the Kyiv region in the spring of 2022.
In particular, it was established that at the end of March 2022, during the occupation of the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region, a 36-year-old local resident of one of the villages of the community was raped in one of the houses. Threatening the woman with execution, the Russian man abused her.
As a result of the work, law enforcement officers identified the rapist. He turned out to be the commander of the platoon of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation, a captain, a native of a village in the Ulyanovsk region, born in 1989.
17.01 US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The American leader announced this during a speech in Davos.
16.53 Russian troops shelled the Kramatorsk community in the Donetsk region this morning. A civilian resident died as a result of the strike. This was reported by the Kramatorsk City Council.
Later, the city council clarified that using three FAB-250s, Russian troops struck the private sector and one of the neighborhoods of the Kramatorsk community.
"A woman born in 1978 died as a result of the shelling. A woman born in 1944 was also injured - medical assistance is being provided at a local hospital."
The impact also damaged at least three dozen private residential buildings, a high-rise building, and a store.
16.35 A Russian military intelligence (GRU) agent, who was detained in November 2024 in the Donetsk region, received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The attacker "leaked" the coordinates of fortified areas and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk direction to the Russians. Among the sources of information that the enemy used to plan offensive operations at Chasiv Yar were her intelligence data.
16.29 Since the beginning of the current day, 74 combat clashes have occurred on the front in eight directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational summary . More than half of the Russian assaults were carried out in the Pokrovsk and Gulyaipol areas.
16.11 The State Bureau of Investigation exposed the director of a company who, during the war, continued to conduct business in cooperation with representatives of the aggressor state. The suspicion was reported to the director of the company, who did not stop cooperating with the Russian business and actually continued its work on the territory of Ukraine.
16.01 Oleksiy Brecht, a member of the board of NPC Ukrenergo, tragically died . The Ministry of Energy reported this. The cause of death was an electric shock at a Ukrenergo substation, according to People's Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko.
15.14 The Poltava District Court sentenced an officer of the psychological support and recovery group who, during martial law, left his place of duty three times without permission.
The man left the unit for the first time without permission from his command in December 2024. In February 2025, he took advantage of the legislative opportunity to return to service without criminal liability, but in the fall of the same year he again reported to the SZCH. A similar case was recorded in October 2025.
Given the repetition of offenses during martial law, the court found him guilty of conspiracy to commit war crimes during martial law and sentenced him to five years in prison.
14.29 Frosts have worsened the water supply situation in the occupied areas of Donetsk region, leaving entire neighborhoods without access to drinking water. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. It is noted that currently in many settlements there is no water in the taps, and the barrels for delivery have frozen or are empty. At the same time, entire neighborhoods of large cities have been left without access to drinking water. Due to the cold weather, large-scale emergency power outages and problems with heating have been added to the water crisis.
14.16 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed that the key problem for the Alliance now is the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, not the situation around Greenland. The Guardian reports .
"The risk is that, of course, we focus on Greenland, because we have to make sure that this issue is resolved peacefully. But the main issue is not Greenland. The main issue now is Ukraine," Rutte said.
14.11 In Kyiv, about 4,000 houses are still without heat, almost 60% of the capital is without electricity . This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky in Telegram after the energy selector. The capital needs additional measures and additional attraction of resources, the head of state noted.
13.55 US President's Special Representative Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday, he said in a comment to CNBC. The Russian side has requested talks, and discussions on the US peace plan for Ukraine are "progressing," he said.
13.30 Fighters of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recently shot down two Russian anti-aircraft missile systems - Buk-M2 and Buk-M3 - in the northern Slobozhansk direction in a matter of minutes. The press service of the 8th Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces reported this, publishing a video .
12.49 The government has allocated 2.56 billion hryvnias from the state budget reserve fund for the purchase of mobile distributed generation equipment. This was announced by Prime Minister Yulia Svirydenko on Telegram. We are talking about powerful generators that will go to the regions where they are needed most now.
12.15 Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleg Ivashchenko, made a working trip to the Zaporizhia Front. This was reported by the special service.
12.11 On the evening of January 20, a Russian drone attacked a private sector in Chuguev in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the strike, three people suffered an acute stress reaction. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
"According to the investigation, on January 20, at about 10:00 p.m., an enemy strike drone hit the territory of a private residential sector in the city of Chuguev. According to preliminary data, the Russian Armed Forces used a Geran-2 type UAV ," the report said.
11.50 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published an interactive 3D model and data of the enterprises of the cooperation for the production of 9M727 cruise missiles from the Iskander-K operational-tactical missile complex in the Means of Destruction section of the War&Sanctions portal. It is noted that the main enterprise in the production cycle is the Novator Research and Design Bureau of the Almaz-Antey concern. In addition to it, the Ministry of Defense publishes 39 more Russian and one Belarusian enterprise that manufactures the warhead, turbojet engine and its components, satellite and inertial navigation systems, other electronic units and the component base of the Iskander cruise missiles.
11.21 During the night and morning, Russian aggressors attacked energy facilities in four regions of Ukraine. This was reported by Ukrenergo. Emergency restoration work is ongoing wherever the security situation currently allows.
11.10 On January 20, a Russian "shahed" exploded on the territory of a lyceum in the village of Dobryanska community in the Chernihiv region. There were no children in the lyceum, there were no casualties. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration Vyacheslav Chaus. According to the OVA, in the village of Semenivska community, a building of a cultural center caught fire due to a UAV strike. Over the past day, the Russian Federation has fired 37 shells at communities in the Chernihiv region, and 50 explosions have been recorded.
11.01 Water supply in Kyiv has been fully restored after the Russian attack on January 20. This was reported by Kyivvodokanal. Only the top floors of high-rise buildings may be without water supply when there is no electricity.
10.33 Law enforcement officers, following a hot pursuit, detained an FSB agent-killer in Zaporizhia who tried to stab an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The SBU reported this . The victim was hospitalized in intensive care, where he is currently in serious condition.
9.39 Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 97 drones of various types. Of these, 84 drones were neutralized, but there are hits; the enemy attack continues. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Telegram.
9.28 On the front of the past day, 110 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded, with the largest number of attacks occurring in the Pokrov direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 21. Aviation, missile troops, and artillery of the Defense Forces struck six areas of concentration of personnel and one control point of Russian drones.
8.59 Two people were killed and one was injured in Russian strikes on the Dnipropetrovsk region on the night of January 21. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha, on Telegram.
8.24 Russian war criminals attacked Zaporizhia. Enemy shelling caused damage to the city. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov in Telegram.
7.42 The Ukrainian Defense Forces killed and wounded 1,170 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on its Facebook page.
03.25 In the village of Novaya Adygeya, Republic of Adygea in the south of the Russian Federation, a large-scale fire broke out in a high-rise building during a UAV attack. Local authorities and Russian media claim that the building was hit by a UAV, eyewitnesses and "osinters" claim that it was a Russian air defense missile. There is also information that the S-300/400 complex was also destroyed during the attack.
00.31 Ukraine and the US will not sign the so-called "prosperity plan" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, as the parties have not yet agreed on it, Axios reports. Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka said that the US and Ukraine have reached an agreement at the working level on a political document for Ukraine's $800 billion "prosperity plan", but there is one "challenge". It is that this document will oblige Ukraine to work together between the EU and the US, and this will concern dozens of legal instruments.