Overview
- Top negotiator Rustem Umerov said two days of Miami talks with U.S. envoys focused on security guarantees and post‑war recovery and will continue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with no agreements announced.
- Ukraine’s government has declared an energy-sector emergency as the battered grid supplies roughly 60% of demand and has ordered major state firms to urgently import electricity covering at least half of their consumption.
- Overnight Russian drone barrages struck multiple regions, leaving at least two people dead and dozens injured, as Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing 167 of 201 drones.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used more than 1,300 attack drones, about 1,050 guided bombs and 29 missiles over the past week and appealed for additional air-defense interceptors.
- Kyiv warned of intelligence pointing to planned strikes on infrastructure tied to nuclear power services, while Moscow-installed authorities in occupied Zaporizhzhia reported over 200,000 consumers without electricity after a Ukrainian drone strike.