Overview
- An overnight drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia region killed three people and sparked a residential fire, while two others were injured in Dnipropetrovsk, according to local authorities.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says intelligence points to another large-scale air assault, after Ukraine’s Air Force reported 146 attack drones in one night with most intercepted.
- Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are expected to reconvene trilateral negotiations on Feb. 1 in Abu Dhabi, a timetable the Kremlin’s spokesman also referenced.
- Recent salvos included roughly 50 drones hitting the Odesa region and a strike on a passenger train in Kharkiv, leaving multiple dead and dozens injured and damaging energy and public infrastructure, officials and companies reported.
- A CSIS assessment estimates combined military casualties could near 2 million, including about 1.2 million Russian losses and up to 600,000 Ukrainian.