Here are important developments 1,047 days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The situation on Monday, January 6th is as follows.
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Russia has announced that its forces have captured the town of Krahov in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the capture of Krahov “significantly hampered the logistics and technical support” of the Ukrainian military. Krahov is located 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Pokrovsk and is a key logistics hub in Ukraine, where Russia has been making advances for months.
Russian forces also captured the village of Dachenske, just south of Pokrovsk, Interfax news agency reported, citing Russia’s Defense Ministry. It added that Russia on Sunday repelled a Ukrainian attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
The Ukrainian Air Force announced that it shot down two Kh-59 cruise missiles fired by Russia during the night. It added that of the 128 drones launched, 79 were shot down and 49 “copycat drones” failed to reach their targets.
Ukrainian forces launched a new offensive on Sunday in Russia’s western Kursk region, where Moscow’s forces have been trying to push back Ukrainian forces for the past five months. Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced that Ukraine has lost up to 340 soldiers in the Kursk region in the past 24 hours. It also announced that it had shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29. Ukraine launches counterattack in Kursk, “Russia is getting what it deserves,” Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential administration, said on Sunday, calling for “good news” for Ukraine from the region. added. Serhiy Lysak, the governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, said Russia shelled the Nikopol region “six times” overnight. He said Moscow also launched “suicide drones over the region.” No casualties were reported. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that a loud explosion was heard near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, coinciding with reports of a drone attack on the plant’s training center. The IAEA has not yet been able to confirm the impact of the attack. The IAEA team also added that multiple sounds of machine gun fire were heard from the scene.
politics and diplomacy
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, said Ukraine’s position on Kursk was “important” as it “takes account of any negotiations that may occur over the next year.” Blinken said the United States believes Russia is expanding space cooperation with North Korea in exchange for military contributions in the fight against Ukraine. “North Korea is already receiving Russian military equipment and training. We now have reason to believe that Russia intends to share advanced space and satellite technology with North Korea.” Blinken also said that the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden, which has provided billions of dollars in security aid to Kiev since the Russian invasion in February 2022, is confident that “Ukraine has the strongest possible hand.” He said he wanted to ensure that President Zelenskiy said Kiev’s security to end the Russian war would only be effective if provided by the United States. “Without the United States, security guarantees are impossible. What I mean is these security guarantees that can prevent Russian aggression,” he told American podcaster Rex on Sunday. said in an interview with Fridman. Zelensky said Ukrainians were looking to President Trump to force Russia to end the war and that Russia would escalate in Europe if the United States left the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance. A Slovak government delegation will visit Brussels to discuss the gas situation after Ukraine ended an agreement that allowed Russian gas to be transported through its territory to some European countries, including Slovakia.
