Russia appears to be using drone attacks on civilians to train young pilots, says a Ukrainian lawmaker with ties to Ukraine's military. One city has been hit by hundreds of drone strikes this year.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully destroyed a Russian 1L119 Nebo-SVU radar system in the temporarily occupied Kherson region, the Telegram channel Dosye Shpiona reported on January 19. The radar belonged to Russia’s 90th Air Defense Missile Brigade under the 49th Army,

When, how, and under what conditions new US President Donald Trump will be able to bring the war in Ukraine to an end remains uncertain, though many ordinary Ukrainians have expressed hopes of his success,

In the Kherson region, one person was killed and two others were injured in Russian strikes on January 19. — Ukrinform.

In late November, Maria, a 22-year-old from Ponyativka in southern Ukraine, gave birth to a boy. She named her second child Ivan, after his father who had been dreaming about a son since he joined the army in 2023.

Ukraine’s Defense Forces intercepted 93 Shahed-type one-way attack UAVs and other types of drones, while another 47 decoy UAVs disappeared from radar. — Ukrinform.

Russian forces unleash a combined drone and missile strike on Kyiv as well as two other attacks in southern Ukraine.

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing three people, while two other attacks in the country's south killed three more, officials said.

Belarusian national Maria Zaitsava, was killed in action in the Pokrovsk operational zone on January 17. “The Second International Legion of Ukraine’s Defense reports with great regret the death of our Legion’s fighter, 24-year-old citizen of Belarus, Maria Zaitsava.

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office on Jan. 20, Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance. While some potential details of Trump's future peace proposals have been leaked, the overall plan still remains unclear.

In his first major remarks on Ukraine after re-entering the White House, the US president urged Putin to “settle now and stop this ridiculous war” or face intensified sanctions, taxes and tariffs, adding: “We can do it the easy way, or the hard way.”