Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,408

These are the cardinal developments from time 1,408 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is wherever things basal connected Friday, January 2:

Fighting

• Ukraine and Russia person traded allegations of attacks connected civilians and civilian infrastructure implicit the New Year, with Kyiv saying determination had been different wide onslaught connected its powerfulness supplies, and Moscow reporting a deadly onslaught connected a edifice successful territory it occupies successful confederate Ukraine.

• Russia said astatine slightest 24 people, including a child, person been killed in a drone strike connected a edifice and cafe wherever civilians were seeing successful the caller twelvemonth successful a Russian-controlled portion of the Kherson portion successful confederate Ukraine.
• Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed politician of the region, said 3 Ukrainian drones had deed the celebrations successful Khorly, a coastal village, successful what helium said was a “deliberate strike” against civilians. He said galore radical had been burned alive.

• Asked astir the onslaught connected Kherson, a Ukrainian subject spokesperson told the Interfax-Ukraine quality bureau that Kyiv’s forces exclusively targeted Russian subject oregon vigor sites.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a connection connected Telegram that Russia launched much than 200 onslaught drones against Ukraine, targeting vigor infrastructure successful 7 regions crossed the country.

• Russian aerial defence units person downed a full of 29 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow implicit a 20-hour New Year period, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Restrictions were successful spot connected the evening of New Year’s Day for 2 Moscow airports. Sobyanin made nary notation of casualties oregon damage.

  Ukrainian drones struck vigor and concern targets crossed the Russian regions of Krasnodar, Tatarstan and Kaluga overnight, Russian officials said connected Thursday. The Ukrainian subject confirmed it had carried retired 2 of the 3 attacks.

Alleged onslaught connected Putin’s residence

•  A elder Russian subject chief, Admiral Igor Kostyukov, said helium had fixed a United States subject attache what helium claimed to beryllium portion of a Ukrainian drone. He said information from the drone proved that the Ukrainian subject targeted a residence of President Vladimir Putin successful Russia’s bluish Novgorod portion this week.

• Ukraine has denied Russia’s claim. US quality sources told reporters connected Wednesday Kyiv was not down the attack.

• Ukraine staged the decease of an anti-Kremlin Russian fighter, Denis Kapustin, to forestall his sidesplitting ordered by Moscow’s peculiar forces, Ukrainian subject quality announced. Kapustin’s Russian Volunteer Corps claimed that helium was killed connected the beforehand line, but helium aboriginal appeared successful a video briefing with the caput of Ukrainian subject quality (GUR), Kyrylo Budanov.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said it had deployed 2 caller Patriot aerial defence systems received from Germany arsenic portion of a antecedently announced subject assistance supply.

A Ukrainian enlistee takes portion successful a basal subject grooming astatine an undisclosed determination successful the Zaporizhia region, amid the Russian penetration of Ukraine [Handout/Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine Army via AFP]

Diplomacy

• Ukraine’s apical negotiator successful US-brokered bid talks, Rustem Umerov, said helium met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan successful Ankara. Umerov said helium discussed with Fidan the dialog process and adjacent steps, with peculiar attraction to humanitarian issues and the instrumentality of Ukrainians held by Russia.

• In his New Year’s code to the nation, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy said helium wanted the warfare to end, but not astatine immoderate cost. He added helium would not motion a “weak” bid statement that would lone prolong the war.

• Zelenskyy besides said that weeks of US-led diplomacy, including his talks past play with US President Donald Trump successful Florida, had produced a bid woody that was astir ready. “A bid statement is 90 percent ready, 10 percent remains,” helium said.