Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,410

On Saturday, January 4, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• According to state media, a Russian ballistic missile attack in Kharkiv on Friday killed four people and injured five-storey residential structure in the city’s center.
• According to an army update, the Ukrainian forces clashed with the Russian army 191 times in various front line locations, with Pokrovsk and Huliaipole reporting the heaviest fighting.
• In the most recent advance made in the disputed region, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed that its forces had taken control of Bondarne in Ukraine’s Donetsk.
• According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian army launched two attacks on Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, where Moscow has recently gained.
• Overnight, according to the ministry, 90 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over Russian regions.
• The Russian management of the station reported that one of the two high-voltage lines that Moscow controlled in the early stages of the invasion had been shut down.

diplomacy and politics

• Top allies of Ukraine’s allies, as well as NATO and the European Union representatives, met in Kyiv for discussions on a US-brokered plan to end the conflict with Russia, including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
• Following a separate European leaders’ meeting in Paris the following week, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Kyiv hopes to hold a summit of its leaders in the US by the end of January to discuss ideas for ending the conflict with Russia.
• Donald Trump, the president of the US, expressed his frustration with Vladimir Putin, the head of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, saying it would have been simple to end the conflict.
• Denys Shmyhal, the country’s energy minister and first deputy prime minister, has been suggested by Zelenskyy.