Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,060

Here is the situation on Sunday, January 19:

Fighting:

Three people were killed and three others were hurt in a Saturday Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian capital. Kyiv city officials said the victims were two men, aged 43 and 25, and a 41-year-old woman.
• In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and 11 wounded in a Russian strike, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov, who described it as a “cynical” attack on the city centre “while everyone was sleeping”.
• Two people were killed in a mortar attack on Beryslav, in the southern Kherson region, its Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
• Overnight, Ukraine’s air force reported that it had destroyed 24 Russian attack drones and two Iskander ballistic missiles.
• Russia said its forces made advances in the eastern Donetsk region, capturing two villages – Vremivka and Petropavlivka.
• Ukrainian drones were fired at an oil depot in the Tula region of Russia early on Saturday, according to the country’s military intelligence unit, and the region’s governor had earlier reported a fuel tank fire at an industrial site.
• Following a Ukrainian drone attack, officials in the nearby Kaluga region also reported a fire at an industrial site.

Diplomacy and politics

• Sweden’s most significant operation as a member of the Western defence alliance is being called the “most significant operation” it has yet to date, with nearly 550 Swedish soldiers arriving in Latvia to join a multinational brigade led by Canada along NATO’s eastern flank.
• In the event of a ceasefire with Russia, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated to the Suddeutsche Zeitung that he would be willing to send German soldiers to Ukraine to help secure a demilitarized zone.
• In advance of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pistorius said Germany should aim to spend about 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Trump wants NATO members to spend 5% of their GDP on defense expenditures.
• In an interview with The Associated Press news agency, outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, warned that US global leadership, which she said diminished during Trump’s first presidency and allowed China to fill the void, could erode again under a second Trump term.
• In response to concerns over British military deployments under a new 100-year partnership agreement that Kyiv and London announced on Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that Ukraine and the United Kingdom “have no room” for cooperation in the Sea of Azov.