Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,045 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key events on the 1,045th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation for Saturday, January 5:

Fighting

• One person died and five were injured when a Russian plane attacked the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv.
• Ukraine's military said it shot down 60 of the 93 Russian warplanes launched in the early hours of Friday.
• Three missiles hit a residential area near the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing one, injuring five and destroying two homes.
• Four people were injured when the town of Sloviansk was shelled near the battleground in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched 300 attack aircraft and 20 missiles at Ukrainian targets in the first three days of 2025.

• Russia's creeping advance on Donetsk has covered 4,168 square kilometers (1,609sq miles) at the cost of 430,000 troops, according to a new analysis.
• Ukraine will reportedly receive its first French Mirage 2000-5F multirole fighters 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 the country's largest oil refinery after repeated Ukrainian airstrikes, state news agency TASS reported.

Military assistance

• United States President Joe Biden is expected to announce more 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 stop Russia from using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
• A Finnish court has refused to release an oil tanker accused by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. The Eagle S Tanker was carrying Russian oil when the cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged on December 25 along with four communication lines.

Politics

• Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, told state-run Rossiya-1 TV that there was “nothing interesting” in President-elect Donald Trump's proposals to end the war in Ukraine.
• Blinken will begin his last trip in his role this weekend, which the State Department said will conclude with meetings in Paris to discuss European and Ukrainian security with French officials.

The environment

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