Here are the key developments on the 1,060th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Sunday, January 19:

Fighting:

  • A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital killed three people and wounded three more on Saturday. Kyiv city officials 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 wounded in a Russian strike, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov, who described it as a “cynical” attack on the city center “while everyone was sleeping.”
  • Two people were killed in a mortar attack on Beryslav, in the southern Kherson region, its Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
  • Ukraine’s air force said it downed two Iskander ballistic missiles as well as 24 Russian attack drones overnight.
  • Russia said its forces made advances in the eastern Donetsk region, capturing two villages – Vremivka and Petropavlivka.
  • Ukraine’s military intelligence unit said Ukrainian drones hit an oil depot in Russia’s Tula region in the early hours of Saturday, with the Russian governor of the region earlier reporting a fuel tank fire at an industrial site.
  • Officials also reported a fire at an industrial site in the neighboring Kaluga region after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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Police officers guard a building following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv [File: Efrem Lukatsky/AP]

Diplomacy and politics

  • Nearly 550 Swedish soldiers arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance.
  • Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper he is open to sending German soldiers to Ukraine to help secure a demilitarized zone there in the event of a ceasefire with Russia.
  • In advance of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pistorius said Germany should aim to spend about 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Trump wants NATO members to devote 5 percent of their national output to defense spending.
  • In an interview with The Associated Press news agency, outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, warned that US global leadershipwhich she said diminished during Trump’s first presidency and allowed China to fill the void, could be eroded again under a second Trump term.
  • The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that Ukraine and the United Kingdom “have no room” for cooperation in the Sea of ​​Azov, echoing Kremlin concerns over British military deployments under a new 100-year partnership agreement announced by Kyiv and London on Thursday.



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