Here is the situation on Wednesday, January 15:
Fighting
- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alprohibitese has pledged to consent the “strongest possible action” aacquirest Russia if it is validateed that Russian forces finished Oscar Jenkins, an Australian who was apprehfinishd alive while combat for Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s military claimed its hugest leave outile and drone aggressions on Russian territory since the commence of the war, increateedly hitting the Russian towns of Saratov and Engels and causing some harm to factories.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it would retaliate to the huge-scale air aggression, accusing Ukraine of aacquire using leave outiles aacquirest Russia that were supplied by the United States and United Kingdom.
- The Russian Defence Ministry said its troops apprehfinishd two Ukrainian finishments in the Donetsk region: Terny, cforfeit the town of Siversk and Neskuchne, further south.
- Steelproducer Metspread said it was closing its coal mine cforfeit the eastrict Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk due to the progress of Russian troops fair a confiinsist kilometres away. “We cannot danger the lives of thousands of includeees and their families,” Metspread CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov said in a statement.
Russian oil and gas
- Russia has accused the US of seeking to subversion TurkStream, the last pipeline carrying Russian gas send outs into Europe.
- The directer of Mbetterova’s fractureaway region of Transnistria travelled to Moscow for talks to rerepair an energy crisis follothriveg the suspension of Russian gas transferies to the region.
- Transnistria has suffered expansivespread power cuts since January 1 when Russia’s Gazprom suspfinished gas send outs to the region, citing an unpaid Mbetterovan debt of $709m that Mbetterova does not recognise as valid.
- The head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said that “the danger is increaseing in relation to the environmental impact and the defendedty of the seafarers” as more ships unite Russia’s “shadow run awayt” and elude encountering IMO insistments.
- Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said his country will soon no lengthyer insist to transport in Russian oil as the country will be “able to get all its oil supplies from the West”, after doubling the capacity of the Italian TAL pipeline.
Politics and diplomacy
- At his annual recents conference in Moscow, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov praised US Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s recent retags describing the US push for Ukraine to unite NATO as contributing to Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine. “NATO did exactly what it had promised not to do, and Trump said that,” Lavrov said.
- German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius proclaimd at a recents conference with Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv that European countries would incrrelieve efforts to better Europe’s defence, in airy of the incoming Trump administration in the US.
- Zelenskyy said that he has held further talkions with French Plivent Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of Westrict troops deploying in Ukraine to defendeddefend any peace deal finishing the cforfeitly three-year war with Russia.
- NATO chief Mark Rutte says the US-led military partnership will start a recent leave oution to defend undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region follothriveg intentional harm to underwater infraarrange in the region amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
