Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,407

Here is wherever things basal connected Thursday, January 1:

Fighting

• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said connected Telegram that Russian forces downed 5 Ukrainian drones en way to the metropolis connected Thursday evening, according to the Reuters quality agency.
• Ukrainian officials accidental Russian drones attacked flat buildings and captious infrastructure successful the metropolis of Odesa successful an overnight onslaught connected Wednesday, injuring six people.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised the subject to telephone up reserve soldiers to support captious infrastructure successful an authoritative decree this week. The bid besides calls for the authorities to find a database of “critically important facilities” to beryllium protected.
• The Moscow Times reported the bid follows caller changes to Russian instrumentality successful November that let reservists to beryllium called up successful peacetime.

New Year’s statements

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that portion helium wanted the warfare to end, helium would ne'er motion a “weak” bid statement that would “only substance the war”, successful a televised code connected New Year’s Eve.
• The Ukrainian person said that a bid statement was “90 percent ready” but that a captious 10 percent remains undecided. “That 10 percent contains everything; it is the 10 percent that volition find the destiny of peace, the destiny of Ukraine and Europe and however radical volition live,” helium said.
• Putin said helium believes Moscow volition triumph the war, astir 4 years since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, successful his televised New Year’s Eve address. He called connected Russians to “support our heroes” during the speech.

The remains of a drone, which Russia’s Defence Ministry said was downed portion repelling what it described arsenic a Ukrainian onslaught connected the Russian statesmanlike residence successful the Novgorod region, Russia, successful this inactive representation from a video released connected December 31, 2025 [Handout/Russian Defence Ministry]

Alleged onslaught connected Putin’s residence

• Russian Major-General Alexander Romanenkov described an alleged Ukrainian drone battle implicit the play connected 1 of Putin’s residences arsenic a “terrorist onslaught by the Kyiv regime” successful a Telegram post.
• Romanenkov said the low-flying drones had passed done Bryansk, Smolensk and Tver en way to the residence successful Russia’s Novgorod region.
• Russian forces changeable down 91 drones portion en way betwixt Sunday and Monday utilizing assorted “anti-aircraft rocket systems, mobile occurrence teams, and physics warfare systems”, Romanenkov said.
• The Ministry of Defence besides shared a photograph of an alleged Ukrainian drone changeable down during the onslaught connected Telegram.
• The Wall Street Journal reported connected Wednesday that the CIA does not judge the attempted onslaught connected Putin’s residence occurred, citing an unnamed United States official. Ukrainian drones were successful the region, the authoritative said, but they were striking subject targets acold from the home.

Diplomacy

• US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said connected X that helium had productive talks with Zelenskyy and officials from the United Kingdom, France and Germany connected Wednesday. The talks besides included US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
• “We focused connected however to determination the discussions guardant successful a applicable mode connected behalf of [Trump’s] bid process, including strengthening information guarantees and processing effectual deconfliction mechanisms to assistance extremity the warfare and guarantee it does not restart,” Witkoff said.
• Zelenskyy thanked Romania and Croatia connected X for joining the Priority Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) inaugural – which helps Ukraine bargain US-made weapons – and announced their archetypal contributions.
• Romania this week said it was committing $58m to PURL, portion Croatia said it would perpetrate $17.6m.
• Zelenskyy said 24 countries person joined PURL since it was launched successful August, and unneurotic contributed $4.3bn – including astir $1.5bn successful December.