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Kyiv and the region in mid-January 2022
Summary
A look back at the reports from Kyiv, Zakarpattia and Kazakhstan that surrounded 13 January 2022.
What was happening in Ukraine and its neighbourhood on 13 January 2022? On that date, a minor earthquake of magnitude 1.5 on the Richter scale was recorded in the Zakarpattia region.
The tremor was small, and it sat alongside a set of other reports from the days before it.
Kyiv in the preceding days
On 9 January 2022, an event called "Say No to Putin" took place on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv. Two days earlier, on 7 January 2022, journalist Andriy Kulykov, a co-founder of Hromadske Radio, was attacked on Peremohy Avenue in the capital. The incident was not linked to his professional work, as reported at the time.
Kazakhstan
Beyond Ukraine's borders, protests continued in Kazakhstan. On 7 January 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that Russian troops deployed there had kept control of Almaty International Airport and had secured key government buildings in Nur-Sultan, including the Ak Orda Presidential Palace.
Taken together
These items came from different places and are separate stories: a seismic reading in western Ukraine, a street event and an assault in Kyiv, and a Russian military deployment in Kazakhstan. They mark the picture for readers as it stood by 13 January 2022.
