Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,060

Here is the concern connected Sunday, January 19:

Fighting:

• A Russian rocket onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior killed 3 people and wounded 3 much connected Saturday. Kyiv metropolis officials said the victims were 2 men, aged 43 and 25, and a 41-year-old woman.
• In the confederate metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 11 wounded successful a Russian strike, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov, who described it arsenic a “cynical” onslaught connected the metropolis centre “while everyone was sleeping”.
• Two radical were killed successful a mortar onslaught connected Beryslav, successful the confederate Kherson region, its Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said it downed 2 Iskander ballistic missiles arsenic good arsenic 24 Russian onslaught drones overnight.
• Russia said its forces made advances successful the eastbound Donetsk region, capturing 2 villages – Vremivka and Petropavlivka.
• Ukraine’s subject quality portion said Ukrainian drones deed an lipid depot successful Russia’s Tula portion successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, with the Russian politician of the portion earlier reporting a substance vessel occurrence astatine an concern site.
• Officials besides reported a occurrence astatine an concern tract successful the neighbouring Kaluga portion aft a Ukrainian drone attack.

Police officers defender a gathering pursuing a Russian rocket onslaught successful Kyiv [File: Efrem Lukatsky/AP]

Diplomacy and politics

• Nearly 550 Swedish soldiers arrived successful Latvia to articulation a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastbound flank, a ngo Sweden is calling its astir important cognition truthful acold arsenic a subordinate of the Western defence alliance.
• Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told the Suddeutsche Zeitung paper helium is unfastened to sending German soldiers to Ukraine to assistance unafraid a demilitarised portion determination successful the lawsuit of a ceasefire with Russia.
• In beforehand of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pistorius said Germany should purpose to walk astir 3 percent of gross home merchandise (GDP) connected defence. Trump wants NATO members to give 5 percent of their nationalist output to defence spending.
• In an interrogation with The Associated Press quality agency, outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, warned that US planetary leadership, which she said diminished during Trump’s archetypal presidency and allowed China to capable the void, could erode again nether a 2nd Trump term.
• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that Ukraine and the United Kingdom “have nary room” for practice successful the Sea of Azov, echoing Kremlin concerns implicit British subject deployments nether a caller 100-year concern statement announced by Kyiv and London connected Thursday.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies