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.

“A man who was injured in an attack by a Russian UAV in Kherson was taken to the hospital,” the statement said. As noted, the 27-year-old Kherson resident was diagnosed with an explosive injury and shrapnel wounds to his leg. The victim is being provided with the necessary medical care.

Fleeing a Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces collectively stole more than 33,000 historical artifacts and works of art. This museum theft is the largest in Europe since World War II.

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,

Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin are expected to speak by phone soon, with the expectation that the call would be followed by a face-to-face meeting where they will try make a deal that ends the war. The governments of Switzerland and Serbia have both offered to host a U.S.-Russia summit.

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.

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

Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday (Jan 18), killing three people, while two other attacks in the country's south killed three more,

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.

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.