Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1,417 | Russia-Ukraine War

These are the key developments of the 1,417th day of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here’s where things stand on Sunday, January 11:

Struggle:

• Russian forces launched artillery and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday, killing a 68-year-old man, injuring three others and starting fires in residential buildings, according to Ukrainian emergency services.
• Russian shelling also killed another person in the Kramatorsk district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the service said.
• Three more Ukrainians were killed and nine others injured in Russian attacks on the Yarova, Kostyanynivka and Sloviansk regions of Donetsk, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 139 clashes on Saturday and said Russia launched 33 airstrikes, deployed more than 4,430 drones and carried out 2,830 attacks against Ukrainian troops and settlements.
• Russian forces advanced near the villages of Markove and Kleban-Byk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian battlefield monitoring site DeepState, but no other major changes were reported.
• In the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, engineers are working “around the clock” to restore electricity to residents after thousands of apartments lost power during Thursday’s Russian attacks, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration.
• Heating has been restored to about half of the households that lost electricity, added kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
• Russian news agency TASS reported that two people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on the southwestern Russian city of Voronezh.
• The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said Saturday that 600,000 people in the region were without electricity, heat and water after a Ukrainian missile strike.
• Ukrainian forces also carried out a drone strike on Russia’s Volgograd region, sparking a fire at an oil depot in the Oktyabrsky district, regional authorities said.
• The Ukrainian army said on Saturday that it had struck the Zhutovskaya oil depot in Volgograd overnight.
• Meanwhile, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 33 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, the agency reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on January 12 to “respond to Russia’s flagrant violations of the United Nations Charter,” after Russia fired an Oreshnik hypersonic missile near the Polish border, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.
• The Minister of Foreign Affairs also spoke of anti-government protests ” shook Iran, saying that “Iran’s support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the oppression of its own citizens are part of the same policy of violence and lack of respect for human dignity.”
• Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev insisted that Russia would not accept European or NATO troops in Ukraine and that “European fools want a war in Europe after all.”
• “Well, come on, this is what you’ll get,” the vice president added, accompanied by a video of Oreshnik’s strike.
• The Institute for the Study of War wrote in its latest report that the Russian strike on Oreshnik was likely aimed “to deter Western countries from providing military support to Ukraine, particularly by deploying forces to Ukraine as part of a peace agreement.”
• Ukraine’s top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, has “once again contacted our American partners,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “We continue communication with the American side almost daily,” he said.
• South Africa launched a week of naval exercisesin which Russia, Iran and China also participated.
• Captain Nndwakhulu Thomas Thamaha, commander of the South African Joint Task Force, said during the opening ceremony that the exercises are “a demonstration of our collective determination to work together”.

Sanctions

• Zelenskyy promised on X that “we will continue to strengthen the sanctions toolbox” and that “all lines of pressure on Russia and individuals associated with it must be maintained.”
• In reference to recent reports that US President Donald Trump has give the green light to a bill aimed at sanctioning countries who buy Russian oil, Zelensky said: “What’s important is that the US Congress revisits tougher sanctions against Russia – targeting Russian oil. This can really work.”

Energy

• Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev said Russian oil products had “increased significantly” after Bloomberg reported that Russian refined fuel flows rose to a four-month high in December, driven by larger shipments of diesel from Baltic Sea ports. Dmitriev added on X that “false hawkish narratives are bad for decision-making.”
• Separately, Bloomberg also reported that Russian crude oil production fell to its lowest level in a year and a half in December, reaching 9.32 million barrels per day.