Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,059

Here is the concern connected Saturday, January 19:

Fighting

• Three radical person been killed successful Kyiv overnight, according to the caput of the Ukrainian military. Explosions were heard crossed the Ukrainian superior arsenic aerial raid sirens sounded and aerial defence crews responded to a Russian ballistic rocket attack.
• Ukraine has continued its drone attacks against Russian lipid infrastructure, hitting depots successful the Tula and Kaluga regions southbound of Moscow overnight. Images said to picture the burning depots person been shared online arsenic Kaluga’s determination politician claimed respective drones had been changeable down.
• The governors of Russia’s Bryansk and Smolensk regions reported that aerial defence units had changeable down a full of 14 Ukrainian drones with nary reports of casualties.
• Nearly 89,000 Russian soldiers person been killed successful Ukraine, according to a associated probe by BBC Russia and Mediazona, an summation of 3,965 killed since mid-December. It is thought the existent decease toll is overmuch higher arsenic the numbers of deceased Russian troops see lone those who could beryllium instantly verified.
• Fighting has been reported successful the portion of Ukraine’s coking ember mines astatine Udachne to the westbound of Pokrovsk, a captious assets for Ukraine’s metallurgical industries successful Kryvyi Rih that are babelike connected these mines.

Residents astatine the tract of a onslaught successful Kryvyi Rih, cardinal Ukraine [File: Handout/Ukraine Emergency Service via AFP]

War crimes

• A pro-Russian Telegram transmission posted aggregate videos online appearing to amusement 2 Russian soldiers with the decapitated heads of Ukrainian soldiers connected pikes. The graphic images besides appeared to amusement Ukrainian prisoners of warfare from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade being abused and bodies being desecrated.

Russian lipid and gas

• Reuters quality bureau reports that Russian exports of petroleum products fell by much than 10 percent successful 2024 aft a question of Ukrainian drone strikes against lipid infrastructure.
• The United States has imposed sanctions against six Russian lipid tankers nether operation astatine the Zvezda shipyard, Reuters reports, the archetypal clip specified sanctions person been imposed successful the struggle to people Russia’s “shadow fleet”.

Regional diplomacy

• Russia and Iran person agreed to boost subject and quality ties successful a renewed “comprehensive strategical concern treaty”. Under the agreement, Iran stopped abbreviated of pledging afloat subject assistance to Russia but did hold to enactment unneurotic against communal subject threats.

• A French patrol craft has been the people of “Russian intimidation” implicit the Baltic Sea, France’s defence curate said connected societal media, aft a Russian ground-to-air defence strategy locked connected to French craft during a patrol.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hosted Slovakia’s absorption person successful Kyiv amid a diplomatic spat with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has threatened to chopped assistance to Ukraine.
• United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the tract of the Auschwitz Nazi decease campy up of the 80th day of the Holocaust, wherever helium held a quality league with Polish President Donald Tusk. Starmer made the halt connected his instrumentality travel from a sojourn to Ukraine wherever helium signed a information statement with President Zelenskyy.
• Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken believes the incoming Trump medication volition shred Biden-era policies connected Ukraine. The Associated Press quality bureau reports that Blinken made the connection successful a wide-ranging last interrogation and said helium hoped determination would beryllium “continuity” successful Washington’s assistance to Kyiv.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies