Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,045 | Russia-Ukraine war news

Here are the key developments on the 1045th day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Here is the situation on Saturday, January 5:

The struggle

• One person was killed and five injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 60 of the 93 Russian drones launched in the early hours of Friday morning.
• Three missiles hit a residential area near the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing one, injuring five others and destroying two houses.
• Four people were injured when the town of Sloviansk was shelled near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched 300 attack drones and 20 missiles at Ukrainian targets in the first three days of 2025.

• Russia’s creeping advance in Donetsk has captured 4,168 square kilometers (1,609 sq miles) of territory at the cost of 430,000 soldiers, according to a new analysis.
• Ukraine will receive its first French Mirage 2000-5F multirole fighters this month, according to French magazine Avions Legendaires.
• A Russian court has ordered Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, to hide maps and photos of one of the country’s largest oil refineries after repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones, the state news agency TASS informs

Military aid

• US President Joe Biden is expected to announce additional security assistance for Ukraine in the coming days, according to White House spokesman John Kirby.

Regional security

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Financial Times that he believes China intervened to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
• A Finnish court has refused to release an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. The Eagle S Tanker was carrying Russian oil when the cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged on December 25 along with four telecommunication lines.

Politics

• Russian envoy to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, told state broadcaster Rossiya-1 TV that there was “nothing of interest” in US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals to end the war in Ukraine.
• Blinken will begin his last trip in his role this weekend, which the State Department said will conclude with meetings in Paris to discuss European security and Ukraine with French officials.

Environment

• Oil from two aging and damaged Russian oil tankers was detected Friday off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea annexed by Moscow, according to local officials. The ships were hit by a storm last month, causing one to sink and the other to break up, spilling about 2,400 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the surrounding waters.