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What January 2025 strikes showed about the war
Summary
A look back at the reports from the days before 23 January 2025, when attacks crossed the front line in both directions.
What did the war look like in the days leading up to 23 January 2025? Reports from that stretch describe strikes on Ukrainian cities and Ukrainian drone attacks on targets inside Russia.
On 18 January 2025, Russian ballistic missiles struck Kryvyi Rih. Four people were killed and 14 others injured, according to the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Serhiy Lysak. The same day, at least four people were reported killed in Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.
Two days later, on 20 January 2025, 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.
Two directions of pressure
Taken together, the reports show civilians in Ukrainian cities bearing the human cost of missile and drone attacks, while Ukraine pursued industrial sites in Russia, with disruption to air traffic in Tatarstan as one visible result.
These events were part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War, and they frame the situation as it stood on 23 January 2025.
