The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1046 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Here are the main developments on the 1,046th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Sunday, January 5:

Fighting

• Russia vowed to retaliate after it claimed to have shot down eight US-supplied aircraft ATACMS Ukraine fired missiles at the Belgorod border region.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in fighting in the Kursk region in southern Russia. He said that up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers were killed in the village of Makhnovka.

• Zelensky also said that Russian guided bomb attacks hit two villages in the Sumy region and the neighboring Kharkiv region.

• A Russian guided bomb attack injured 10 people, including two children, in a village in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, near the Russian border.

• Russian media outlet Izvestia said that a Ukrainian drone attack led to the death of its independent correspondent, Alexander Martemyanov. Data previously provided by the Committee to Protect Journalists counted the killing of at least 15 journalists since the comprehensive Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

• Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry’s website, denounced Martemyanov’s death and described it as “premeditated murder.”

• The Russian Information Agency said that two of its reporters who were traveling with Martemyanov were injured in the accident, in addition to two journalists working for a newspaper in Donetsk.

• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces took control of the village of Nadia in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine and shot down eight American-made ATACMS missiles.

• The ministry also said its air defense systems shot down 10 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, including three over the northern Leningrad region.

• Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Ministry of Defense as saying that its forces took control of the village of Nadia in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• the The pro-Russian breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria Local authorities said Russian gas supplies had been diverted through neighboring Ukraine, forcing them to implement frequent power outages.

• Oil from two old and damaged Russian tankers was discovered off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in the Crimean peninsula that Moscow annexed, a Moscow-appointed official said.