Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1,435

These are the key developments of the 1,435th day of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Published on January 29, 2026

Here’s where things stand on Thursday, January 29:

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The death toll from a Russian attack on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Tuesday rose to six, after the remains of several bodies were found in the rubble, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office announced on the Telegram messaging app.
At least six people were injured in a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, said on Telegram.
Russian forces attacked several towns in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a 46-year-old man and injuring at least two other people, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanja, said on Facebook.
One person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in Russia’s Belgorod region, the regional emergency task force reported, according to state news agency TASS.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in the town of Enerhodar, in a Russian-occupied area in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, locally appointed Russian official Yevhen Balitsky said, according to TASS.
Fedorov ruled out installing anti-drone nets as a mode of defense, saying “there are more effective ways to combat Russian attacks,” Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said France would deliver more “French planes, missiles for air defense systems and aerial bombs” to Ukraine this year, following a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told an event in Paris that a 2035 European rearmament target “would be too late”.
“I think rearming ourselves now is the most important thing,” Frederiksen said. “Because when you look at intelligence, nuclear weapons, etc., we depend on the United States,” she added.

Switzerland plans to inject an additional 31 billion Swiss francs ($40.4 billion) into military spending starting in 2028 by raising sales taxes for a decade.
“The world has become more unstable and uncertain, and the international order based on international law is under strain,” the Swiss government said, noting that other European countries have also increased their defense spending.

Vladislav Maslennikov, senior official for European Affairs at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told the TASS agency that the restoration of relations with the European Union will be possible only if European countries “stop their sanctions policy”, stop “pumping”.[ing] weapons in the Kyiv regime and sabotage[ing] the peace process around Ukraine.

President Macron told an event in Paris that European countries must focus on asserting their “sovereignty, on our contribution to Arctic security, on combating foreign interference and disinformation and on combating global warming.”
“France will continue to defend these principles in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,” said Macron, who denied an invitation for France to join Trump’s Peace Council, which some critics see as an attempt to replace the United Nations.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that negotiations over Ukraine’s Donetsk region, part of the Donbass region now 90 percent occupied by Russian forces, constitute “yet another bridge that we have to cross” in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
“There’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow it down to a central problem, and it’s probably going to be a very difficult problem,” Rubio said.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 639 apartment buildings in kyiv remained without heating, and temperatures were expected to drop to -23 degrees Celsius (-9.4 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight this week.