Here are the key developments on day 1,050 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Thursday, January 9:

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• Russian guided bomb strikes southern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye Killed at least 13 civilians About 30 people were injured, Governor Ivan Fedorov said in a statement on social media.
• Fedorov also said another Russian attack killed two people in the village of Stepnogilsk, south of Zaporozhye, close to the front line.
• Roman Busagrin, the governor of the Russian city of Saratov, said two firefighters died fighting a fire after Ukrainian troops attacked an oil depot in the region, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border. .
• The United States told the U.N. Security Council that North Korea “has benefited significantly” from Ukrainian troops fighting alongside Russia, with the experience gained making Pyongyang “better able to wage war against its neighbors.”
• UN deputy human rights chief Nada Nassif told a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that she was “deeply concerned” by a significant increase in “credible allegations” of Russian armed forces executing captured Ukrainian soldiers.

military aid

• The United States is preparing to provide Ukraine with $500 million worth of additional weapons that will be quickly drawn from its existing stockpiles, two U.S. officials said, adding that the move comes as U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration responds to President Donald Trump’s taken before Trump entered the White House.
• U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said a day before a new military aid package was expected to be announced that U.S. leadership on Ukraine was “critical” and continued assistance to Kiev was critical.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Finnish Foreign Minister Elena Valtonen said joining NATO was the only “reliable” security guarantee Ukraine could get against any future Russian aggression.
• Valtonin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Kyiv and visited the country’s largest children’s hospital in the capital, which was severely damaged in a Russian attack in July 2024.
• U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said any future deal to end the war in Ukraine would need to include “necessary deterrence” to prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine again.

• Zelensky said in a video message on social media that he would attend an allied defense conference in Kyiv hosted by the United States at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to meet French President Emmanuel Macron, with illegal immigration and support for Ukraine likely to be topics of discussion.
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended an event marking the fifth anniversary of the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian Airlines flight by Iran that carried passengers from Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan and Iran.

regional tensions

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the country Ready to replace Hungary After Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó criticized Ukraine for refusing to renew a five-year transit deal, Budapest was asked whether it would prefer to join the Russia-led bloc, the EU and Nato Gas deal with Russia.
• Finnish President Alexander Stuab will co-host a summit of Baltic NATO countries next week in Helsinki with Estonian Prime Minister Kristin Michal.
• Lithuania said it would tighten security on a key cable connecting it to neighboring Poland, citing possible sabotage. The EU and NATO member and its Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia will decouple from Russia’s power grid next month, the culmination of decades of efforts to reduce dependence on Moscow.

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the principle of inviolable borders applies to every country, no matter how powerful, and said European leaders were “confused” by US President-elect Trump’s expansionist rhetoric about Greenland, Panama and Canada. Don’t understand”.
• Zelensky played down concerns about Trump’s comments, saying he understood why Russia did not want Ukraine to join NATO. “Don’t jump to conclusions about U.S. policy,” Zelensky said.
• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he secured gas supplies for Slovakia during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine stopped shipping gas from Russia in early 2025.
• Zelensky and Moldovan President Maia Sandu discussed using Ukrainian coal to ease an energy crisis that has left Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniestria facing power outages and heating shortages. The pro-Russian Transdniestria region relies on Russian gas supplies. But gas deliveries to the region through Ukraine were halted on January 1 after Ukraine refused to renew an agreement allowing gas to transit its territory.