Key developments on the 1,043rd day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine include:
The situation on January 2nd (Thursday) is as follows.
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Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kiev early on New Year’s Day, killing two people, injuring at least six others and damaging buildings in two districts. The second floor of a residential building in central Kiev was partially destroyed in an airstrike, the State Emergency Service said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that now that the new year has begun, all the Russian government can think about is hurting Ukraine: “Even on New Year’s Eve, Russia was only thinking about how to hurt Ukraine.” he said. The Ukrainian military announced Wednesday night that it had shot down 63 of 111 Russian-launched drones, 46 of which were shot down by electronic jamming. A woman was rescued from an attack in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhya, where several houses were set on fire overnight, local authorities said. General of Ukraine Oleksandr Shirsky visited the Ukrainian army in the Russian border region of Kursk and said that the Russian army had lost more than 34,000 soldiers in casualties in attempts to expel Ukrainian soldiers from Russian territory. Ta. About 700 Russian prisoners have been captured in the past five months, and Ukraine could potentially acquire Russian prisoners in exchange for Russian prisoners, Silsky said.
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According to Russian and Ukrainian authorities, shipments of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine have been suspended. Russia’s Gazprom said it had no legal or technical means to pump gas into Ukraine after Kiev acknowledged the expiration of a gas transportation contract. President Zelenskiy said the decision to halt Russian gas shipments through Ukraine was “one of Russia’s biggest defeats.” Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Khrushchenko said the traffic stoppage was a “historic event” and a decision “in the interest of national security.” Poland also welcomed Russia’s end to gas shipments through Ukraine, with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski saying the cutoff marked “a new victory after NATO enlargement to Finland and Sweden.”
President Putin spent billions of dollars building Nord Stream to circumvent Ukraine and intimidate Eastern Europe by threatening to cut off gas supplies. Today, Ukraine has cut off its ability to directly export gas to the EU.
New victories after NATO enlargement by Finland and Sweden.— Radek Sikorski (@radeksikorski) January 1, 2025
Russia’s Gazprom has suspended gas supplies to Slovakia following the termination of a transit agreement to transport gas through Ukraine. Slovak gas importer SPP said it was prepared for such a situation and would supply all customers through alternative routes, mainly by pipelines from Germany and Hungary, but would face additional costs in transport fees. It will be. The Slovak government condemned Ukraine’s decision, and pro-Russian Prime Minister Roberto Fico threatened to cut off Slovakia’s electricity supply to Ukraine. The interruption of gas flow was immediately felt in the Moldovan independent region of Transdniester, where heating and hot water supplies to households had to be cut off. The territory, which has a population of about 450,000 people who speak mostly Russian, separated from Moldova in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and is still home to about 1,500 troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government and the country’s largest bank, Sberbank, to build cooperation with China in the field of artificial intelligence. Putin’s instructions were posted on the Kremlin’s website three weeks after Russia announced it would work with BRICS partners and other countries to develop AI.
