Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events – day 1,060 | Russia-Ukraine War

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.