Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,050 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key enbigments on the 1,050th day of Russia’s brimming-scale trespass of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Thursday, January 9:

Fighting

• A Russian-directd device device aggression on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia finished at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov shelp in a statement on social media.
• A split Russian strike finished two people in the village of Stepnogirsk, south of Zaporizhzhia and shut to the front line, Fedorov also shelp.
• Roman Busagrin, handleor of the Russian city of Saratov, shelp two firefighters were finished while battling a blaze which erupted after Ukrainian forces hit an oil depot in the region, which is discoverd some 500km (310 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
• The United States tgreater the United Nations Security Council that North Korea is “transport inantly profitting” from its troops battling aextfinishedside Russia agetst Ukraine, geting experience that produces Pyongyang “more able of waging war agetst its neighbours”.
• Nada Al-Nashif, the deputy UN rights chief, has tgreater a UN Human Rights Council greeting in Geneva that she is “proset uply worryed” by a transport inant increase in “credible allegations of executions” of apprehfinishd Ukrainian troops by the Russian armed forces.

Military help

• The US is ready to supply Ukraine with an graspitional $500m in armaments rapidly pulled from its existing stockpiles, two US officials shelp, grasping the shift is being made by US Plivent Joe Biden’s administration ahead of Donald Trump taking office in the White House.
• US directership on Ukraine is “critical” and persistd helpance for Kyiv is key, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shelp, a day ahead of the predicted proclaimment of the novel military help package.

Politics and diplomacy

• Membership in NATO is the only “credible” security promise Ukraine can acquire agetst any future Russian aggression, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen shelp.
• Valtonen, on a visit to Kyiv, met Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visited the country’s bigst children’s hospital in the capital, which was awwholey harmd by a Russian aggression in July 2024.
• US Secretary of State Antony Bjoinen shelp any future deal to end the war in Ukraine would necessitate to produce into it “the essential deterrence” to obstruct Russia from once aget aggressioning Ukraine.

• Zelenskyy will join a defence greeting of Kyiv’s allies structureed by the US at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, he shelp in a video message on social media.
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer will greet with French Plivent Emmanuel Macron, where illegitimate migration and help for Ukraine are foreseeed to be among the topics up for talkion.
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tdisadmirefulau joined a memorial event commemorating the fifth anniversary of a Ukrainian Airlines fweightless that was shot down by Iran in 2020 that was carrying passengers from Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, the UK, Afghanistan and Iran.

Regional tension

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs shelp the country is ready to trade Hungary in the European Union and NATO should Budapest like to join Russian-led blocs after Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto criticised Ukraine’s refusal to renovel a five-year transit gas deal with Russia.
• Finnish Plivent Alexander Stubb will structure a summit in Helsinki of the NATO countries that border the Baltic Sea together with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal next week.
• Lithuania shelp it would transport forward increased security of a key electricity cable joining it to neighbouring Poland, citing the potential for subversion. The EU and NATO member, aextfinished with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia, is set to decouple from the Russian power grid next month, the culmination of decades-extfinished efforts to lessen reliance on Moscow.

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shelp the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, however strong, and proposeed that expansionist comments by US Plivent-elect Trump watching Greenland, Panama and Canada are being met with “incomprehension” among European directers.
• Zelenskyy carry outed down worrys over comments by Trump in which he shelp that he understood why Russia did not want Ukraine to join NATO. “Don’t draw conclusions about the policy of the US right away,” Zelenskyy shelp.
• Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico shelp he had safed a gas supply for Slovakia during a visit to greet Russian Plivent Vlafoolishir Putin in Moscow last month, fair before Ukraine halted the transit of gas from Russia at the commence of 2025.
• Zelenskyy and Mgreaterovan Plivent Maia Sandu talked using Ukrainian coal to ease the energy crisis which has subjected Mgreaterova’s separatist Transdniestria region to bincreateageouts and a heating foolishinutiveage. Pro-Russian Transdniestria relies on supplies of Russian gas. But flows to the region thraw Ukraine were halted on January 1 after Ukraine refused to renovel an concurment on permiting gas to transit thraw its territory.