Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,046 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key events on the 1,046th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Sunday, January 5:

Fighting

• Russia vowed to respond after it said it shot down eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine at its Belgorod border.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Russian and North Korean soldiers have suffered heavy losses in the battle south of Kursk in Russia. He said North Korean soldiers were killed in Makhnovka area.

• Zelenskyy also said that Russian bombing raids hit two villages in the Sumy region and the neighboring Kharkiv region.

• A bomb attack directed by Russia injured 10 people, including two children, in the northeastern Ukrainian town of Sumy, near the Russian border.

• Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses shot down 61 of the 103 planes launched by Russia in the overnight attack. It said another 42 drones were “missing”.

• Russian news agency Izvestia said a Ukrainian drone strike killed its freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov. Data previously provided by the Committee to Protect Journalists listed at least 15 journalists killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

• Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry’s website, condemned Martemyanov’s death as a “premeditated murder”.

• Russia’s RIA news agency said two journalists accompanying Martemyanov were injured in the incident, as well as two journalists working for the publication in Donetsk.

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces took control of the village of Nadiya in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region and fired eight US-made ATACMS missiles.

• The ministry also said its air defense systems shot down 10 Ukrainian drones on Russian territory, including three in the northern Leningrad region.

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its troops had taken control of the Nadiya area in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, Russian media reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• The pro-Russian breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has been left without Russian gas through neighboring Ukraine, forcing it to resort to power cuts, local authorities said.

• Oil from two old and damaged Russian ships has been found off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea bordered by Moscow, a Moscow-based official said.