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What the war looked like on 23 January 2025
Summary
A look back at the strikes in Ukraine and the drone attacks in Russia reported in the days before 23 January 2025.
What did the war look like on 23 January 2025? The reports from the preceding days show strikes in both directions, hitting cities and industrial sites far from the front line.
On 18 January, Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv, and at least four people were killed. The same day, a Russian ballistic missile strike hit Kryvyi Rih. According to Serhiy Lysak, Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, four people were killed and 14 others injured.
Drones over Tatarstan
On 20 January, Ukrainian drones attacked industrial facilities in Tatarstan, Russia. The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency temporarily suspended flights at Kazan International Airport in Kazan and at Begishevo Airport in Nizhnekamsk.
Taken together, the reports describe a pattern that held in the days before 23 January 2025. Russian missile and drone attacks hit Ukrainian cities, among them the capital and Kryvyi Rih. Ukrainian drones struck industrial targets in a Russian region, and the strikes disrupted civilian air travel there.
