Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1,056 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here's what it looked like on Wednesday, January 15th:

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised "the strongest possible action" against Russia if it is confirmed that Russian troops killed Australian Oscar Jenkins who was captured alive while fighting for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military claimed it was the largest missile and drone attack on Russian territory since the war began, reportedly hitting the Russian towns of Saratov and Engels and causing some damage to factories.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it would retaliate for a massive air strike, accusing Ukraine of once again using missiles supplied by the United States and Britain against Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces captured two Ukrainian settlements in the Donetsk region: Terni near the town of Siversk and Neskuchne further south.
Steelmaker Metinvest said it would close its coal mine near the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk as Russian troops advanced a few kilometers away. "We cannot risk the lives of thousands of employees and their families," Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov said in a statement.

Russia accuses the United States of trying to sabotage TurkStream, the last pipeline from Russia to export natural gas to Europe.
Leaders of Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria traveled to Moscow for talks to resolve an energy crisis after Russia suspended natural gas deliveries to the region.
Transnistria has suffered widespread power outages since Gazprom suspended gas exports to the region on January 1, citing an unpaid $709 million debt that Moldova does not recognize as valid.
The head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said that "risks related to environmental impacts and seafarer safety are increasing" as more ships join Russia's "shadow fleet" and avoid meeting IMO requirements.
Czech Prime Minister Peter Fiala said the Czech Republic will soon no longer need to import Russian oil as the country will "be able to obtain all oil supplies from the West" after Italy's TAL pipeline capacity was doubled.

At his annual press conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised recent comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, citing the U.S. push for Ukraine to join NATO as one of the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "NATO did exactly what it promised not to do, and that's what Trump said," Lavrov said.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced at a press conference in Kiev with Ukrainian President Zelensky that European countries will step up efforts to improve Europe's defense in light of the incoming Trump administration in the United States.
Zelensky said he had held further discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of deploying Western troops in Ukraine to safeguard a peace deal that ended nearly three years of war with Russia.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the U.S.-led military alliance will launch a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region following deliberate damage to underwater infrastructure during the war between Russia and Ukraine.