Here's what it looked like on Sunday, January 19th:
struggle:
- Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian capital on Saturday, killing three people and wounding three others. Kiev city officials said the victims were two men, aged 43 and 25, and a 41-year-old woman.
- Ivan Fedorov, the governor of the southern city of Zaporozhye, said the Russian attack killed one person and wounded 11 others, calling it a "cynical attack on the city center "while everyone was sleeping" "attack.
- Two people were killed in a mortar attack in the Berislav region of southern Kherson region, the state's governor, Alexander Prokudin, reported.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down two Iskander ballistic missiles and 24 Russian attack drones overnight.
- Russia said its forces had made advances in the eastern Donetsk region, capturing two villages - Fremivka and Petropavlivka.
- Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Russia's Tula region early on Saturday, Ukraine's military intelligence said, where the region's governor had earlier reported a fuel tank fire at an industrial site.
- Officials also reported a fire at an industrial site in the neighboring Kaluga region following a Ukrainian drone strike.
Diplomacy and Politics
- Nearly 550 Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join the Canadian-led NATO multinational brigade on the eastern flank, in what Sweden says is its most important operation yet as a member of the Western defense alliance.
- German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he would be willing to send German soldiers to Ukraine to help secure the demilitarized zone there if there was a ceasefire with Russia.
- Ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, Pistorius said Germany should aim to spend around 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Trump wants NATO members to spend 5% of their national output on defense spending.
- Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned in an interview with The Associated Press that U.S. global leadership could weaken again under Trump's presidency, leaving China to fill the void. Trump’s second term.
- Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned that Ukraine and Britain have "no room for cooperation" in the Sea of Azov, echoing the Kremlin's concerns about British military deployments under a new 100-year partnership agreement announced by Kiev and London on Thursday.