After his inspection of the Zaporizhzhia plant, IAEA Director Rafael Grossi said he would go to Russia, to engage in a political and technical dialogue with officials there.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is always ready to negotiate peace, but emphasized that Ukraine's peace formula or other proposals suggested by the West would not be a possible starting point for talks.
The strike on Donetsk's Tekstylnyk market, where Russian authorities claim 28 people were killed, happened immediately after the announcement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to the UN, said the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian news outlet OstroV, Serhiy Harmash, during a broadcast on Radio NV on Jan. 22.