Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,411

Fighting

• Russian forces launched an aerial onslaught connected Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, connected Monday, sidesplitting 1 civilian successful the archetypal reported decease successful the metropolis this year, according to the Ukrainian military.
• Russia’s subject besides carried retired drone attacks connected northeastern Ukraine connected Sunday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 2 radical successful the Sumy portion and wounding 3 successful the Kharkiv region, according to section officials.
• Ukrainian authorities said the decease toll from a Russian rocket onslaught connected the metropolis of Kharkiv connected Friday had risen to 5 aft assemblage parts were discovered successful the debris.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Sunday that Russia has launched much than 2,000 aerial attacks connected his state during the archetypal week of the New Year.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence besides said that Ukraine has targeted the country’s capital, ‌Moscow, with drones each time of 2026 truthful far, successful what appeared to people an escalation from the earlier, much sporadic attacks connected the Russian capital.
• By midnight connected Sunday alone, Russian aerial defence systems had destroyed 57 drones ⁠over the Moscow portion retired of 437 downed implicit Russia, the Defence Ministry ​said connected its Telegram messaging app.
• Three retired of 4 of Moscow’s airports unopen to aerial postulation connected Sunday aft Ukraine launched dozens of drones astatine the Russian capital, authorities said.
• Russian officials said that Ukrainian drone attacks connected the borderline regions of Belgorod and Kursk killed 2 radical connected Sunday, and wounded a pistillate and a four-year-old child.
• Another ‍Ukrainian ‍drone onslaught sparked a occurrence successful an concern ⁠zone location to the Energiya artillery works successful the ​town of ‍Yelets successful Russia’s Lipetsk region, determination Governor ‍Igor Artamonov ⁠said connected Monday.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said it gained power implicit the Podoly colony successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, portion the Ukrainian subject said that Russian forces launched 14 assaults against its positions adjacent 8 settlements successful the Kupiansk direction.

The Estonian Navy conducts an undersea communications cablegram survey aft a subsea state pipeline and a telecom cablegram connecting Finland and Estonia nether the Baltic Sea were damaged, successful the Gulf of Finland [File: Estonian Navy Handout/Handout via Reuters]

Regional security

• Latvian constabulary said connected Sunday that an undersea telecoms cable, which runs from Sventoji successful Lithuania to Liepaja successful Latvia, was damaged successful the Baltic Sea connected Friday and that Latvian investigators had boarded a vessel successful transportation with ⁠the incident.
• The incidental was made nationalist 5 days aft Finnish constabulary seized a cargo vas ‌en way from Russia to Israel connected suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cablegram moving from Helsinki crossed the Gulf ‍of Finland to Estonia.
• The Finnish constabulary said connected Sunday that the anchor of the vas dragged on the seabed “at slightest respective tens of kilometres” earlier it deed the line.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump said US officials person determined that Ukraine did not people a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin past week.
• “I don’t ‍believe that onslaught happened,” Trump told reporters connected Sunday. “There is thing that happened reasonably nearby, but had thing to bash with this.”
• Trump’s comments came aft European officials argued that the Russian assertion was thing much than an effort by Moscow to undermine bid talks to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said 2026 could beryllium the twelvemonth of “significant progress” towards bid successful Ukraine, telling the BBC One broadcaster that the contented of whether the US volition basal acceptable to springiness information guarantees to Ukraine was “much further advanced” than it was “ever before”.

Sanctions

• Zelenskyy signed a decree imposing sanctions connected 95 individuals and 70 ineligible entities, mostly citizens and residents of Russia, claiming that they are progressive successful supplying Russia’s subject industry.