Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,050 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key developments on day 1,050 of Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Thursday, January 9:

Fighting

• A Russian-led bomb attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 30 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said in a statement on social media.
• A separate Russian strike killed two people in the village of Stepnogirsk, in southern Zaporizhzhia near the front line, Fedorov said.
• Roman Busagrin, the governor of the Russian city of Saratov, said two firefighters died while battling a blaze that broke out after Ukrainian forces stormed an oil storage facility in the region, 500 kilometers (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
• The United States told the United Nations Security Council that North Korea “benefits greatly” from its troops fighting Russia against Ukraine, gaining information that enables Pyongyang “to fight its neighbors”.
• Nada Al-Nashif, the UN's deputy human rights chief, told a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that she was “deeply concerned” by the sharp increase in “credible allegations of the killing” of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian forces.

Military assistance

• The US is ready to provide Ukraine with an additional $500m in weapons immediately removed from its existing stockpiles, two US officials said, adding that the move was made by US President Joe Biden's administration before Donald Trump took office in the White House.
• US leadership in Ukraine is “critical” and continued aid to Kyiv is essential, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, a day before the expected announcement of a new military aid package.

Politics and diplomacy

• Membership in NATO is the only “credible” security guarantee Ukraine can get against any future Russian aggression, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said.
• Valtonen, visiting Kyiv, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visited the country's largest children's hospital in the capital, which was badly damaged by the Russian attack in July 2024.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that any future deal to end the war in Ukraine would have to build into it the “necessary deterrence” to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine again.

• Zelenskyy will attend a US-hosted pro-Kyiv defense meeting at Ramstein airport in Germany, he said in a video message on social media.
• The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer will meet with the President of France Emmanuel Macron, where illegal immigration and support for Ukraine are likely to be among the topics to be discussed.
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a commemoration ceremony to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Ukrainian Airlines flight shot down by Iran in 2020 that was carrying passengers from Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, the UK, Afghanistan and Iran.

Regional tension

• Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said the country is ready to replace Hungary in the European Union and NATO if Budapest chooses to join the Russian-led blocs after Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto criticized Ukraine's refusal to renew a five-year gas transit agreement with Russia.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb will host a summit in Helsinki of NATO countries bordering the Baltic Sea together with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal next week.
• Lithuania has said it will introduce additional security for a key power cable linking it to neighboring Poland, citing the risk of damage. The EU and NATO member, along with its Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia, are expected to disconnect from Russia's electricity grid next month, the culmination of years of efforts to reduce dependence on Moscow.

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the principle of non-border respect applies to all countries, although it is strong, and suggested that the US President-elect's expansionist comments about Greenland, Panama and Canada are met with “misunderstanding” among European leaders.
• Zelenskyy downplayed concerns about Trump's comments when he said he understood why Russia did not want Ukraine to join NATO. “Don't jump to conclusions about US policy,” Zelenskyy said.
• Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said he discovered the gas found in Slovakia during a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine halted gas supplies to Russia in early 2025.
• Zelenskyy and Moldovan President Maia Sandu discussed using Ukrainian coal to ease the electricity crisis that has left Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria with blackouts and heating shortages. Pro-Russian Transdniestria relies on Russian gas supplies. But flows to the region through Ukraine were halted on January 1 after Ukraine refused to renew an agreement to allow gas through its territory.