Overview
- The General Staff logged 154 combat engagements on January 21—with nearly half on the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole axes—and by 16:00 on January 22 reported 123 clashes, including 56 on the Pokrovsk front.
- Ukrainian forces say they hold the northern parts of Pokrovsk and Mirnograd and report thwarting repeated Russian attempts to seize the cities, inflicting heavy losses.
- Russian attacks overnight targeted energy infrastructure, prompting emergency blackouts across many regions, with outages reported by Ukrenergo in the Kyiv area, Odesa, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk.
- U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said talks with Ukrainian delegates in Davos made significant progress and that he will travel to Moscow and Abu Dhabi to pursue negotiations.
- Ukraine’s military said it struck the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai and multiple radar sites in occupied Crimea, though independent verification was not available and damage assessments are ongoing.