Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,412

by news organizations

On Tuesday, January 6, 2018, this is the situation:

According to Mayor Ihor Terekhov, Russia launched five missile attacks on Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, on Monday, causing damage to the country’s infrastructure and inflicting one injury to residents.
“This is not just an attack on facilities,” he said. It attacks people’s regular lives, including those involving heating and water. He claimed on Telegram that they are attempting to “break us” with fear and darkness.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russian forces also reportedly leaked 300 metric tons of sunflower oil from an American agricultural producer Bunge BGN in the southeast Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
According to Ukrainian authorities, the death toll from the most recent Russian airstrike on Kyiv and its region has increased to two, in what appeared to be the first reported fatalities from Russian airstrikes this year. Additionally, 25 others received medical attention and were treated for injuries.
The village of Hrabovske in the northeastern Sumy region of Ukraine is now under the control of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moscow’s assertion was unable to be independently verified.
Governor Igor Artamonov reported on Monday that a Ukrainian drone attack in the Lipetsk region of Russia had ignited a fire in an industrial area. No injuries were reported. The Energiya battery plant, a major supplier of batteries to Russia’s defense sector, is located in Yelets.

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron will convene a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees as part of the US’s plan to end Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. The coalition, which consists of 30 nations and has pledged to increase support for Ukraine, will also be a key component of the discussions.
According to a spokesperson for the European Commission, the coalition’s efforts to secure Ukraine’s security guarantees are progressing.
According to a White House spokesman, Steve Witkoff, the special envoy for the United States, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, will represent Washington at the Parisian talks on Ukraine this week, according to a White House official.
According to a spokesman, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will attend the meeting.
A source with the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the “strategic priority” of maintaining security in the Black Sea will be discussed at a summit on Ukraine in Paris this week.
According to Lithuania’s foreign minister, Kestutis Budrys, any security guarantees that are offered to Ukraine as part of a deal to end the conflict with Russia must be real. At a joint press conference in Vilnius with Johann Wadephul, his German counterpart, Budrys remarked, “We can’t be bluffing… Russia wouldn’t buy our bluffs.”

In a post on X, Freeland, who has Ukrainian ancestry, stated that she would step down as a member of Canada’s parliament in the coming weeks. “I welcome this opportunity to contribute on an unpaid basis as an economic advisor.
As the conflict nears its four-year mark despite intense diplomacy, Zelenskyy has replaced Vasyl Maliuk as head of his powerful spy agency, the SBU, with a reshuffle of top officials in place. Major-General Yevhenii Khmara will serve as Maliuk’s permanent replacement.
Zelenskyy added that Mykhailo Fedorov, his proposed new defense minister, should concentrate on technology and innovation once parliament approves him, as is expected to do.
According to state-run KCNA, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae have inspected the construction of a memorial to the fallen soldiers who died fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
There are no bilateral issues to be discussed, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who stated at a press conference that Vladimir Putin should not travel to Budapest right now. Trump and Putin had agreed to meet in Budapest in October, but the meeting never happened.

Source: Aljazeera