The information about 600,000 people leaving Kyiv after the shelling on January 9 has not been confirmed by any unit of the Kyiv City Military Administration.
The Senate of the Czech Republic has expressed its support for Ukraine and distanced itself from the scandalous statements made by Tomio Okamura, speaker of the lower house of parliament.
Russian troops shelled the Kherson region with artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, and drones throughout the day, killing one person and injuring another.
About 19,000 civilians, including 200 children, remain in the shelled town of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast, where the situation is currently the most difficult.
Pilots from the Pentagon Battalion's interceptors shot down a Russian Knyaz Veshchy Oleg reconnaissance drone, the cutting-edge development from the aggressor country, in the skies over Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The Polish government is changing the rules for providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees. A special law introduced after the start of the war in Ukraine is gradually being rolled back, and access to medical services will be limited.
Since the start of the day, 74 clashes have occurred between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the enemy concentrating most of its efforts on the Pokrovsk direction and showing heightened activity near Huliaipole.
In the Lviv region, the identity of a suspect who fired several shots from a traumatic weapon at a minibus belonging to servicemen of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center has been established, and he has been placed on the wanted list.
Ukraine, together with its partners, is preparing a meeting of the “Energy Ramstein” ahead of which some countries have already announced emergency assistance to help address energy challenges.
As of now, there has been no official confirmation from the Polish side of possible traffic restrictions at the Dołhobyczów checkpoint on the Polish-Ukrainian border on January 23.
The European Parliament has endorsed a decision by the European Council adopted in December 2025 to apply the enhanced cooperation procedure for providing Ukraine with a €90 billion support loan.
On Monday, January 19, the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater presented the legendary production “The Witch of Konotop” by director Ivan Uryvsky in the Polish city of Łódź. The performance was a special event for evacuated Ukrainian children.
The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated UAH 1 billion in subsidies to local budgets for the construction of shelters in preschool educational institutions.
Kyiv has fully restored water supply, and late in the evening authorities plan to begin heating the boilers so that heat can start returning to homes in the morning.