Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,409

Here is wherever things basal connected Saturday, January 3:

Fighting

• Two radical were killed, including a three-year-old child, and astatine slightest 31 radical were wounded successful a Russian ballistic rocket onslaught connected a five-storey residential gathering successful the centre of Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the region’s politician Oleh Syniehubov wrote connected Telegram.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence denied work for the attack, claiming it was caused by the detonation of Ukrainian ammunition and was meant arsenic a distraction from a deadly onslaught the time earlier connected the colony of Khorly, successful a Russian-occupied portion of the Kherson region.
• The decease toll from the drone strike connected a edifice and cafe successful Khorly roseate to 28 people, the region’s Russian-installed governor, Vladimir Saldo, told Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency. Saldo besides said that much than 60 radical were injured successful the attack. Ukraine has responded to the onslaught by saying it does not people civilians.
• Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said successful a station connected Facebook that Ukrainian authorities person decided to evacuate much than 3,000 children, on with their parents, from 44 front-line settlements successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions owed to Russian aggression.
• A Ukrainian onslaught connected the energy grid successful the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia portion of Ukraine near 1,777 households without power, Russian-installed determination governor, Yevgeniy Balitsky, wrote connected Telegram.
• Russian forces changeable down 64 Ukrainian drones overnight into Friday, Russia’s Defence Ministry said, according to TASS.
• Ukrainian monitoring tract DeepState reported Russian forces seized much onshore successful the Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, arsenic good arsenic in Svitle successful the Ternopil region.
• The Russian service captured much than 5,600 quadrate kilometres (2,160 quadrate miles), oregon astir 1 percent, of Ukrainian territory in 2025, according to an investigation of information from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which works with the Critical Threats Project.
• According to the AFP quality agency, the onshore seized by Russian forces past twelvemonth was much than successful the erstwhile 2 years combined, but little than the 60,000sq km (23,166sq miles) Russia took successful 2022, the archetypal twelvemonth of its all-out invasion.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Ukraine’s subject quality main Kyrylo Budanov arsenic his statesmanlike main of unit connected Friday, successful the latest Ukrainian enactment shake-up.
• Zelenskyy besides nominated Mykhailo Fedorov, a drone and digitalisation specializer who has served arsenic archetypal lawman premier curate and curate of integer transformation, arsenic defence minister. Fedorov, whose assignment indispensable beryllium approved by parliament, volition regenerate Denys Shmyhal, a erstwhile premier curate who was being offered a caller authorities post.
• RecepTayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkiye, told reporters successful Istanbul that helium would clasp a telephone telephone with United States President Donald Trump connected Monday to sermon bid efforts. Turkiye has been hosting intermittent bid talks during Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
• Erdogan besides said Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan volition be a gathering of the “coalition of the willing”, a radical of nations backing Ukraine, successful Paris, successful the coming days.