Here is where things stand on Monday, January 19:

Fighting

• Russian attacks killed three people, including a 20-year-old woman, and injured 11 others in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
• In Ukraine’s Kherson region, two people were killed, and one person was injured, as Russian forces launched attacks using drones, air strikes and shelling, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram on Sunday.
• Six people were also injured in Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk, and five people were injured in Sumy, local officials said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
• One person was killed and another wounded in a drone strike on the border village of Nechaivka in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Moscow-installed Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram.
• A Ukrainian attack killed a woman and injured a man in Russia’s Belgorod region, the regional task force reported on Telegram.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that it shot down 140 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period, according to Russia’s TASS state news agency.

Energy crisis

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said that “crucial repair works” had begun on an “essential backup line” connecting Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the grid, “under another IAEA-brokered ceasefire”.
• “A Ukrainian team is conducting the repairs, with an IAEA team on the ground monitoring progress”, Grossi said on X.
• Russian shelling damaged an energy facility in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, leaving homes without electricity, the regional electricity distribution company said on Telegram.
• More than 200,000 consumers in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region were left without electricity on Sunday, Balitsky said on Telegram, after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday.

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