The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1045 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Here are the main developments on the 1,045th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Saturday, January 5:

Fighting

• One person was killed and five others were injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 60 out of 93 Russian drones launched in the early hours of Friday morning.
• Three missiles hit a residential area near the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing one person, wounding five others, and destroying two homes.
• Four people were injured when the town of Slovyansk near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region was bombed.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia launched 300 attack drones and 20 missiles at Ukrainian targets in the first three days of 2025.

• A creeping Russian advance into Donetsk has led to the capture of 4,168 square kilometers (1,609 square miles) of territory at a cost of 430,000 soldiers, according to a new analysis.
• Ukraine will reportedly receive its first French Mirage 2000-5F multirole fighter this month, according to French magazine Avions Legendaires.
• A Russian court has ordered Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex, to hide maps and images of one of the country’s largest oil refineries after repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones, state news agency TASS reported.

Military aid

• US President Joe Biden is expected to announce additional security assistance to Ukraine in the coming days, according to White House spokesman John Kirby.

Regional security

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Financial Times that he believes China intervened to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
• A Finnish court has refused to release an oil tanker that police suspected of damaging an undersea power line and four communications cables in the Baltic Sea. The Eagle S tanker was carrying Russian oil at the time the cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged on December 25, along with four communications lines.

policy

• Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia told the state TV channel Rossiya-1 that there is “no interest” in US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals to end the war in Ukraine.
• Blinken will begin his final trip in office this weekend, which the State Department said will conclude with meetings in Paris to discuss European security and Ukraine with French officials.

environment

• Oil from two old and damaged Russian oil tankers was discovered off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Moscow-annexed Crimea, on Friday, according to local officials. The two ships were hit by a storm last month, causing one to sink and the other to run aground, spilling about 2,400 tons of heavy fuel oil into the surrounding waters.