Here are the main developments on the 1,060th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Sunday January 19:
Struggle:
- A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital killed three people and injured three others on Saturday. kyiv city authorities said the victims were two men, aged 43 and 25, and a 41-year-old woman.
- In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and 11 injured in a Russian strike, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov, who called it a “cynical” attack on the city center “while everyone was sleeping.”
- Two people were killed in a mortar attack on Beryslav, in the southern region of Kherson, its governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
- Ukraine’s air force said it shot down two Iskander ballistic missiles as well as 24 Russian attack drones overnight.
- Russia said its forces had advanced into the eastern Donetsk region, capturing two villages – Vremivka and Petropavlivka.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence unit said Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Russia’s Tula region in the early hours of Saturday, with the region’s Russian governor earlier reporting a fuel tank fire at an industrial site .
- Authorities also reported a fire at an industrial site in the neighboring Kaluga region after a Ukrainian drone attack.
Diplomacy and politics
- Nearly 550 Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank, a mission Sweden calls the largest operation so far as a member of the NATO alliance. Western defense alliance.
- German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he was willing to send German soldiers to Ukraine to help secure a demilitarized zone in the event of a ceasefire with Russia.
- Ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, Pistorius said Germany should aim to spend around 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Trump wants NATO members to devote 5% of their national production to defense spending.
- In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that U.S. global leadership, which she said has declined during Trump’s first presidency and allowed China to fill the void, could erode again under a second Trump term.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that Ukraine and the United Kingdom “have no room” to cooperate in the Sea of Azov, echoing the Kremlin’s concerns about British military deployments as part of a new 100-year partnership agreement announced Thursday by kyiv and London.
