• Putin claims Zelenskiy lacks legitimacy for talks
• Zelenskiy says Russian leader afraid of negotiations
• Ukraine cites martial law for Zelenskiy's legitimacy
• Putin suggests Western allies could facilitate talks

MOSCOW, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine could find a legal way to hold peace talks with Russia on ending their nearly three-year-old war, but Moscow sees no willingness on Kyiv's part to engage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy immediately dismissed Putin's statements questioning his legitimacy, saying that the Kremlin chief had shown he was afraid of talks and sought to prolong the war.

• Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant operating normally amid attack, RIA reports
• Defence ministry says 104 drones detected
• Oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod on fire, media report

Jan 29 (Reuters) - A nuclear power plant was among the targets of a massive Ukrainian drone attack against Russian oil and power facilities, Russian officials and media outlets reported on Wednesday.

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Russia’s economy is facing a potential surge in corporate bankruptcies, the Vedomosti business daily reported, citing experts from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF). The CMASF is a government-aligned think tank that is headed by the brother of Defense Minister Andrei Belousov.

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Ukraine’s defence forces have targeted storage sites for Russian forces’ attack drones in Russia’s Oryol Oblast, reportedly destroying over 200 Shahed drones.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Ukraine was prepared to send coal to fuel a major power plant in the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria, hit by an unprecedented energy crisis.

The territory, wedged between Ukraine and Moldova, has suffered heating and electricity cut-offs since the start of the year when a Kyiv-Moscow gas transit contract, which had allowed Russian gas to flow there, expired.

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With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, the 70-year-old Lukashenko is back on the ballot, and when the election concludes on Sunday, he is all but certain to add a seventh term as the only leader most people in post-Soviet Belarus have ever known.

• Ukraine has stepped up drone attacks on Russia
• Reuters granted exclusive access to drone launch