Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 132 combat engagements on January 14, citing 63 air strikes, 154 guided bombs, 8,087 kamikaze drones and 3,999 other strikes, with heavy pressure around Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Huliaipole.
- The UK Ministry of Defence estimates Russian losses at about 415,000 killed and wounded in 2025 and roughly 1,213,000 since the invasion; Ukraine’s tally stands at about 1,223,090 as of January 15, including 1,150 in the past day.
- Ukraine’s Security Service says it has documented 256 Russian air attacks on power and heat infrastructure since the heating season began and is treating the campaign as having features of crimes against humanity.
- Occupied Crimea saw widespread power cuts after reported drone attacks and a fire at the Dzhankoi substation, while Kyiv and Odesa regions remain under grid restrictions following recent strikes, officials and local reports say.
- Bloomberg reported a possible near‑term visit to Moscow by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to present a draft plan, though the White House says no meeting is scheduled and EU states are pushing for a dedicated EU negotiator; separate strikes killed civilians in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as Ukraine announced arrests in two wartime embezzlement cases worth over 56 million hryvnias.