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Authors: Olha Polishchuk; Cristian Vlas
1148 political violence events 4% increase compared to last week
47 incidents of violence targeting civilians 27% decrease compared to last week
At least 25 fatalities from civilian targeting 39% increase compared to last week
Key trends
- In the Donetsk region, Russian forces occupied three settlements south of Pokrovsk, advancing to positions as close as 4 km from the administrative border with the Dnipropetrovsk region and within the city of Toretsk.
- Russian forces also advanced in the direction of Kupiansk, taking control of a settlement in the Kharkiv region and another in the Luhansk region.
- ACLED records 18 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the city of Kyiv and the western regions of Lviv and Khmelnytskyi. Ukrainian forces intercepted strikes in at least 40 other instances, including over the western regions of Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, and Khmelnytskyi, and the region of Kyiv.
- Russian shelling, missiles, and drones killed at least 24 civilians in the Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Kyiv regions, as well as in the city of Kyiv. Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes killed fourcivilians and injured 25 others in the Russian-held parts of the Donetsk region.
Key events
- 18 Jan. | Kyiv – A Russian ballistic missile kills four civilians and wounds three others in the Kyiv city
- 23 Jan. | Donetsk – Russian forces execute at least six Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donetsk region
- 23 Jan. | Zaporizhia – Russian ballistic missiles kill one civilian and injure 54 others in Zaporizhia city