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

Here is the concern connected Thursday, January 9:

Fighting

• A Russian-guided weaponry onslaught connected the confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia killed astatine slightest 13 civilians and injured astir 30 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said successful a connection connected societal media.
• A abstracted Russian onslaught killed 2 radical successful the colony of Stepnogirsk, southbound of Zaporizhzhia and adjacent to the beforehand line, Fedorov besides said.
• Roman Busagrin, politician of the Russian metropolis of Saratov, said 2 firefighters were killed portion battling a blaze which erupted aft Ukrainian forces deed an lipid depot successful the region, which is located immoderate 500km (310 miles) from the borderline with Ukraine.
• The United States told the United Nations Security Council that North Korea is “significantly benefitting” from its troops warring alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining acquisition that makes Pyongyang “more susceptible of waging warfare against its neighbours”.
• Nada Al-Nashif, the lawman UN rights chief, has told a UN Human Rights Council gathering successful Geneva that she is “deeply concerned” by a important summation successful “credible allegations of executions” of captured Ukrainian troops by the Russian equipped forces.

Military aid

• The US is acceptable to supply Ukraine with an further $500m successful weapons rapidly pulled from its existing stockpiles, 2 US officials said, adding the determination is being made by US President Joe Biden’s medication up of Donald Trump taking bureau successful the White House.
• US enactment connected Ukraine is “critical” and continued assistance for Kyiv is key, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, a time up of the expected announcement of the caller subject assistance package.

Politics and diplomacy

• Membership successful NATO is the lone “credible” information warrant Ukraine tin person against immoderate aboriginal Russian aggression, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said.
• Valtonen, connected a sojourn to Kyiv, met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visited the country’s largest children’s infirmary successful the capital, which was severely damaged by a Russian onslaught successful July 2024.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said immoderate aboriginal woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine would request to physique into it “the indispensable deterrence” to forestall Russia from erstwhile again attacking Ukraine.

Burning cars astatine the tract of a Russian aerial onslaught successful Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine, connected January 8, 2025 [Handout/Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration via EPA]

• Zelenskyy volition be a defence gathering of Kyiv’s allies hosted by the US astatine the Ramstein airbase successful Germany, helium said successful a video connection connected societal media.
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer volition conscionable with French President Emmanuel Macron, wherever amerciable migration and enactment for Ukraine are apt to beryllium among the topics up for discussion.
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a memorial lawsuit commemorating the 5th day of a Ukrainian Airlines formation that was changeable down by Iran successful 2020 that was carrying passengers from Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, the UK, Afghanistan and Iran.

Regional tension

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the state is acceptable to regenerate Hungary successful the European Union and NATO should Budapest similar to articulation Russian-led blocs aft Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto criticised Ukraine’s refusal to renew a five-year transit gas woody with Russia.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb volition big a acme successful Helsinki of the NATO countries that borderline the Baltic Sea unneurotic with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal adjacent week.
• Lithuania said it would bring guardant accrued information of a cardinal energy cablegram linking it to neighbouring Poland, citing the imaginable for sabotage. The EU and NATO member, on with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia, is acceptable to decouple from the Russian powerfulness grid adjacent month, the culmination of decades-long efforts to trim reliance connected Moscow.

Men transportation a nonmigratory injured during Russian aerial and rocket strikes successful Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, connected Wednesday [Handout/Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration via Reuters]

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the rule of inviolability of borders applies to each country, nevertheless powerful, and suggested that expansionist comments by US President-elect Trump regarding Greenland, Panama and Canada are being met with “incomprehension” among European leaders.
• Zelenskyy played down concerns implicit comments by Trump successful which helium said that helium understood wherefore Russia did not privation Ukraine to articulation NATO. “Don’t gully conclusions astir the argumentation of the US close away,” Zelenskyy said.
• Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico said helium had secured a state proviso for Slovakia during a sojourn to conscionable Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Moscow past month, conscionable earlier Ukraine halted the transit of state from Russia astatine the commencement of 2025.
• Zelenskyy and Moldovan President Maia Sandu discussed utilizing Ukrainian ember to easiness the vigor situation which has subjected Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria portion to blackouts and a heating shortage. Pro-Russian Transdniestria relies connected supplies of Russian gas. But flows to the portion done Ukraine were halted connected January 1 aft Ukraine refused to renew an statement connected allowing state to transit done its territory.

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