Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,051

Here is the concern connected Friday, January 10:

Fighting

• Two radical were killed erstwhile Russian forces shelled the municipality of Siversk successful the Donetsk region, according to Governor Vadym Filaskhin.

• Two radical were besides killed erstwhile the municipality of Kamyanka-Dniprovska successful the Russian-controlled country of Zaporizhia region, came nether Ukrainian fire, Moscow-appointed Governor Yevgeny Belitsky said. On Wednesday, a Russian guided weaponry onslaught connected Ukrainian-controlled country of the portion killed astatine slightest 13 civilians and injured astir 30 others.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia has launched much than 51,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine since the commencement of its full-blown penetration astir 3 years ago.
• Russian forces person established a bridgehead connected the Ukrainian-held broadside of the front-line Oskil stream successful the eastbound of the country, an authoritative said, pointing to Kyiv’s mounting battlefield struggles. The stream is the de facto beforehand enactment successful parts of the eastbound Kharkiv region.

Weapons

• An planetary conjugation to procure unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Ukraine, co-led by the United Kingdom and Latvia, volition nonstop 30,000 recently ordered drones to Kyiv, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy up of talks astatine Palazzo Chigi successful Rome [Filippo Attili/Handout via EPA]

Politics and diplomacy

• US President-elect Donald Trump said a gathering was being acceptable up betwixt him and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He did not acceptable a timeline for the meeting.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the latest meetings with Kyiv’s Western allies successful Germany had resulted successful pledges of an further $2bn successful subject assistance to assistance it combat the warfare against Russia.
• The US volition supply Ukraine with an further $500m successful subject aid, including aerial defence missiles, air-to-ground munitions and enactment instrumentality for F-16 combatant jets, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.
• Zelenskyy held talks successful Rome with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni aft gathering different allies successful Germany. During the meeting, Meloni “reiterated the all-round enactment that Italy ensures and volition proceed to provide” to support Ukraine.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said successful a station connected X that helium met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and some reaffirmed their committedness to enactment Ukraine and discussed respective different issues.
• Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited areas deed by rolling powerfulness cuts and blamed Russian state elephantine Gazprom for the vigor situation gripping the country’s pro-Russian separatist enclave of Transnistria. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moldova and Ukraine were liable for the heating and powerfulness shortages.
• Officials successful Transnistria said blackouts would beryllium reduced from 8 hours a time to 5 starting connected Friday up of a play acold drawback sending temperatures beneath zero Celsius.
• Slovakia is weighing retaliation against Ukraine, including withholding aid, if a solution is not recovered to Kyiv’s determination to unopen disconnected Russian gas, Prime Minister Robert Fico warned aft talks with European Union Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced absorption to Trump’s telephone for NATO members to rise defence spending to 5 percent of gross home product. He said existent NATO rules necessitate confederation members to walk 2 percent of GDP connected defence.

Transport

• The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned non-European carriers not to alert successful occidental Russian airspace owed to the hazard of being unintentionally targeted by its aerial defence systems.
• EASA said the clang past period successful Kazakhstan of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, arsenic Russian aerial defences fired connected Ukrainian drones, demonstrated the precocious risk. At slightest 38 radical died successful the crash.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies