Here’s what happened on Friday, January 10th:
finding
Two people were killed when Russian troops shelled the town of Siversk in the Donetsk region, Governor Vadim Filaskin said.
Moscow-appointed governor Yevgeny Belitsky said two people were killed when the city of Kamyanka-Dniprovska in the Russian-controlled region of Zaporizhzhia region came under shelling by Ukrainian forces. On Wednesday, a Russian guided bomb attack on Ukrainian-held areas in the region killed at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others. Ukraine’s air force says it has launched more than 51,000 guided airstrikes against Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion nearly three years ago. Noting the intensification of fighting on the Kiev battlefield, officials said Russian forces had established a beachhead on the Ukrainian side of the front-line Oskir River in the country’s east. This river is the de facto front line in parts of the eastern region of Kharkiv.
weapons
The UK-Latvia-led International Coalition for the Procurement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Ukraine will send 30,000 newly ordered drones to Kyiv, the UK Ministry of Defense has announced.
politics and diplomacy
US President-elect Donald Trump has said that a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take place. He did not set a date for the meeting.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin was open to talks with Trump without preconditions, and the Kremlin welcomed the U.S. president’s “readiness to resolve issues through dialogue.” Then he added.
According to the Kyiv Foreign Ministry, Ukraine expects high-level contacts with the new US administration immediately after Trump takes office, including a final meeting between Trump and President Zelenskiy.
President Zelenskiy said that as a result of Kiev’s recent talks with Western allies in Germany, he has committed an additional $2 billion in military aid to support the war against Russia. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States will provide an additional $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including air defense missiles, air-to-ground munitions and support equipment for F-16 fighter jets. Zelenskiy met with other allies in Germany before meeting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. During the meeting, Meloni “reiterated the all-round support that Italy has guaranteed and will continue to provide” to protect Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron said in a post on X that he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and both reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Ukraine and discussed several other issues. Moldova’s President Maia Sandu visits areas affected by rolling blackouts and blames Russian gas giant Gazprom for the energy crisis plaguing the pro-Russian separatist enclave of Transnistria. denounced. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the heating and electricity shortages were in Moldova and Ukraine. Officials in Transnistria have announced that power outages will be cut from eight to five hours a day starting Friday, ahead of a weekend cold wave that will bring temperatures below zero Celsius. Prime Minister Robert Fico said after talks with European Union Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen that Slovakia will retaliate against Ukraine, including withholding aid, if no solution is found to Kiev’s decision to cut off Russian gas. He warned that he was considering it. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed opposition to President Trump’s call for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries to raise their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP). He said current NATO rules require alliance members to spend 2% of their GDP on defense.
transportation
The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned non-European airlines not to fly in the airspace of western Russia due to the risk of being unintentionally targeted by air defense systems. EASA said the crash of an Azerbaijani plane in Kazakhstan last month when Russian air defense forces fired on a Ukrainian drone showed the high risk. At least 38 people died in the accident.
