Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,417

Here is wherever things basal connected Sunday, January 11:

Fighting:

• Russian forces launched artillery and drone attacks connected Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk portion connected Saturday, sidesplitting a 68-year-old man, wounding 3 others and causing fires to interruption retired successful residential buildings, according to Ukraine’s exigency service.
• Russian shelling besides killed different idiosyncratic successful the Kramatorsk territory of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the work said.
• Three different Ukrainians were killed, and 9 much were wounded, successful Russian attacks connected the areas of Yarova, Kostyanynivka and Sloviansk successful Donetsk, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 139 combat clashes connected Saturday and said that Russia launched 33 aerial strikes, deployed much than 4,430 drones and carried retired 2,830 attacks connected Ukrainian troops and settlements.
• Russian forces precocious adjacent the villages of Markove and Kleban-Byk successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to the Ukrainian battlefield monitoring tract DeepState, but nary different large changes were reported.
• In the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, engineers are moving “around the clock” to reconstruct energy to residents aft thousands of apartments mislaid powerfulness during Russia’s Thursday attacks, said Tymur Tkachenko, the caput of the city’s subject administration.
• Heat supplies person been returned to astir fractional the homes that mislaid power, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko added.
• Russia’s TASS quality bureau reported that 2 radical were wounded successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the southwestern Russian metropolis of Voronezh.
• The politician of Russia’s Belgorod ‍region, which ‍borders Ukraine, said connected Saturday that 600,000 radical successful the country were without electricity, heating and h2o aft a Ukrainian ⁠missile strike.
• Ukrainian forces besides carried retired a drone onslaught connected Russia’s Volgograd region, sparking a occurrence astatine an lipid depot successful the Oktyabrsky district, determination authorities said.
• The Ukrainian subject said ‌on Saturday it had struck the Zhutovskaya lipid depot successful Volgograd overnight.
• Russian aerial defence systems, meanwhile, intercepted and destroyed 33 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian regions, the bureau reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• The United Nations Security Council volition big an exigency gathering connected January 12 to “address Russia’s flagrant breaches of the UN Charter”, aft Russia fired an Oreshnik hypersonic missile adjacent the Polish border, Ukrainian ‍Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha wrote connected X.
• The overseas curate besides spoke retired astir the antigovernment protests rocking Iran, saying that “Iran’s enactment for Russia’s warfare of aggression against Ukraine and its oppression of its ain citizens are portion of the aforesaid argumentation of unit and disrespect for quality dignity”.
• The lawman president of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, insisted that Russia volition not judge European oregon NATO troops successful Ukraine and that “European dimwits privation a warfare successful Europe aft all”.
• “Well, travel connected then. This is what you’ll get”, the lawman president added, accompanied by a video of the Oreshnik strike.
• The Institute for the Study of War wrote successful its latest study that Russia’s Oreshnik onslaught was apt “aimed to scare Western countries from providing subject enactment to Ukraine, peculiarly from deploying forces to Ukraine arsenic portion of a bid agreement”.
• Ukraine’s pb negotiator, ⁠Rustem Umerov, “once again reached retired to our American partners”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram. “We proceed connection with the American broadside practically each day,” helium said.
• South Africa kicked disconnected a week of naval drills, besides attended by Russia, Iran and China.
• Captain Nndwakhulu Thomas Thamaha, South Africa’s associated task unit commander, told the opening ceremonial that the drills are “a objection of our corporate resoluteness to enactment together”.

Sanctions

• Zelenskyy pledged connected X that “we volition proceed strengthening the sanctions toolkit” and that “all lines of unit connected Russia and individuals associated with it indispensable beryllium maintained”.
• In notation to caller quality that US President Donald Trump has greenlit a measure to authorisation countries that bargain Russian oil, Zelenskyy said: “What is important is that the US Congress is backmost successful question connected tougher sanctions against Russia – targeting Russian oil. This tin genuinely work.”

Energy

• Russian statesmanlike envoy Kirill Dmitriev said Russian lipid products person “significantly increased” aft Bloomberg reported that Russian refined substance flows deed a four-month precocious successful December, driven by stronger diesel shipments from ports successful the Baltic Sea. Dmitriev added connected X that “fake warmonger narratives are atrocious for decision-making”.
• Separately, Bloomberg besides reported that Russia’s crude lipid accumulation dropped to its lowest level successful a twelvemonth and a fractional successful December, hitting 9.32 cardinal barrels per day.