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30 January 2026
The Kyiv Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health says that due to low air temperatures, there are currently no risks of the spread of intestinal infections as a result of damage to sewer networks.
Seven villages in the Starosaltivska community in the Kharkiv region have announced the forced evacuation of families with children.
Russia has intensified its information manipulation around the topic of Ukraine's losses, using the exchange of bodies of the dead as a tool to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine and exaggerate Ukrainian losses. In total, more than 350 manipulative publications were recorded in foreign media.
378 high-rise buildings remain without heat supply in Kyiv, most of them in the Troieshchyna district.
The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) at the National Security and Defense Council has recorded the emergence of a new wave of artificially generated videos on social media promoting Russian propaganda narratives.
There are 1,344 emergency response centers (invincibility points) operating in Kyiv. Rescuers from other regions of Ukraine are being brought in to help overcome the energy crisis.
29 January 2026
The film 2,000 Meters to Andriivka by Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov has been nominated for the 2026 Writers Guild Awards.
Boiler equipment delivered under a support program from Italy has been distributed among communities in 10 regions of Ukraine.
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has extended businessman Ihor Kolomoisky’s preventive measure of detention until March 25 in the case concerning a contract killing.
President Volodymyr Zelensky honored the memory of the fallen Heroes of Kruty and the current soldiers of the war at Askold's Grave.
As part of repatriation efforts, 1,000 bodies (remains) of the deceased have been returned to Ukraine, which, according to the Russian side, belong to Ukrainian defenders.
As of the morning of January 29, 613 high-rise buildings in Kyiv remain without heating.
Representatives of the Cultural Center of Ukraine in France took part in a high-level meeting at the French Ministry of Culture dedicated to issues of preserving Ukraine's cultural heritage and architecture.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine does not confirm claims of large-scale migration of young people abroad following the permission for men aged 18–22 to leave the country.
28 January 2026
The situation with access to water in the temporarily occupied Donetsk is only getting worse, despite recent statements by representatives of the Russian “administration” about “increasing the number of water trucks.”
The Moldovan government has decided to extend the temporary protection status for refugees from Ukraine by another year, until March 1, 2027, while optimizing the procedure for extending this status.
Testing of 5G technology has begun in Borodianka, Kyiv region.
Mykola Dziak, a soloist of the bands the Secret of the Third Planet and the House of Griboyedov and a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has died in hospital from severe wounds sustained while carrying out a combat mission.
The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has ordered the pre-trial detention, without the right to post bail, of a Belarusian spy who had worked as a journalist in Kyiv for an extended period and attempted to infiltrate a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Marian Kushnir rescued a child from a high-rise apartment building in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region that was attacked by Russian forces.
In Kyiv, 737 residential buildings remain without heating.
This week, Ukraine will see a slight rise in temperatures, but closer to the weekend, some regions will experience a noticeable drop in temperatures.
In the Vinnytsia region, 243 settlements have been left without power due to icy power lines. Emergency power cuts are in effect.
27 January 2026
As of the evening of January 27, 710,000 people in Kyiv remain without electricity.
Hot water supply has been temporarily restricted in some residential buildings in Kyiv.
According to US Special Representative Stephen Witkoff, the path to a new future has now opened up for Israel and the Gaza Strip, one that could be defined by peace rather than war.
The film 2000 Meters to Andriivka by Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov has been shortlisted for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards in the Best Documentary category.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, the Hola Prystan community is facing an extremely critical situation: it has been left without communication, electricity, gas, heating, or medical care; bakeries have stopped operating, and people are buying up whatever they can find and whatever remains in grocery stores.
As of January 27, Poland has raised over PLN 8.2 million (approximately €2 million) through a nationwide fundraiser for generators called "Warmth from Poland for Kyiv."
President Volodymyr Zelensky honored the memory of Holocaust victims in Babyn Yar in Kyiv.