CNN Russia News-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,065

CNN Russia News: Here are the key developments on the 1,065th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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• Russian aerial attacks in eastern and central Ukraine killed at least three people and wounded dozens. Among those killed were a 53-year-old in the Kostiantynivka area and a 54-year-old in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
• Russian forces have captured the settlement of Tymofiivka in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, RIA state news agency cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday. There was no immediate confirmation of the report.
• Russia said on Friday that it shot down 120 drones over a dozen regions overnight, including over the capital Moscow, in one of the biggest such barrages of the nearly three-year conflict. One drone was also intercepted over the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula. Russian media reported damage in various regions, including fires.
• The mayor of Russia’s Ryazan region, Sergei Sobyanin said the air defense units intercepted three Ukrainian drones flying to the place in direction towards Russia’s capital Moscow: There is no evidence of destroyed premises or hurt. Specialist emergency crew nevertheless was involved and sent on a site
• Ukraine has ordered an evacuation of several children and family settlers from at least 16 front-line settlements facing the advancing attack of Russia military forces, including young children; reportedly, this involved 267 such children altogether.
• Ukraine accused Russia of killing six unarmed soldiers that were captured by its forces. Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said footage showed “the occupiers recorded their own crime” and said Kyiv is notifying international rights groups of the war crime.
• Kyiv’s air force said it shot down 57 of 92 drones that Russia launched in attacks overnight. The air force also said 27 of the drones were “electronically lost” and did not cause any damage.
• Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces destroyed 49 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period in the evening. It also said 37 of the drones had been destroyed in the Kursk region.

• Ukraine said the number of those injured in Wednesday night’s Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia increased to more than 51. The attack also killed a 47-year-old man and left tens of thousands of people without power and heat.
• The police of Ukraine announced the execution of close to 1,000 raids on the whole territory and the detention of two dozen persons with a view to preventing illegal sale of arms and ammunition. “The main goal is to shut down sales and storage channels,” the Interior Ministry said, adding it also wanted to seize trophy weapons, ammunition, and explosives from illicit trafficking.
  • Russian media cited Moscow’s Defence Ministry as saying that their forces captured the village of Solone in the Donetsk region in east Ukraine, a village about 12km (7.4 miles) from Pokrovsk, a key supply hub for Kyiv’s forces.

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• The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that he wants an immediate meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and even told reporters that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to make a ceasefire deal.
• Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says that according to the analysis made by the European Union, the Russian economy should be in a position to finance the war in Kyiv for at least another year. De Croo also expressed that it was important that the 16th package of sanctions against Moscow would also cover gas, energy, and fertilizers.
• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Ukraine would one day join NATO when there is sustainable peace, and warned NATO must make it clear that Russia has no right to veto a vote on who joins the alliance.
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• US presidential envoy Richard Grenell lashed out against Rutte’s comments and called on NATO allies to pay their “fair share” on defence before expanding the alliance. “You’re going to run into a big buzzsaw in America if we have the NATO secretary-general talking about adding Ukraine to NATO,” he said.
• He said at the forum that it was important Russia did not win its war against Ukraine and reiterated the need to increase support for Ukraine, adding that the “front line is moving in the wrong direction”.
• Rutte also warned that a Russian victory over Kyiv could heavily undermine NATO’s power as the world’s biggest military alliance, costing trillions to restore its credibility.
• Rutte also called on the US to continue supplying Kyiv with weapons and assured the bill would be paid by Europe. His comments followed Trump’s remarks that the EU needed to do more in support for Ukraine.
• Kremlin Spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, reacted to Trump’s earlier threats of additional sanctions if Putin fails to negotiate a ceasefire deal with Ukraine soon, saying there was nothing new about Trump’s remarks.
• Peskov also reacted to a Reuters report saying Putin was increasingly concerned about distortions in Moscow’s wartime economy, adding that despite some factors being problematic, the country’s economy is stable with a relatively high rate of development.

Regional security

• Germany has deployed two Patriot air defence units to Poland to help protect a key logistical hub which supplies military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. “This is to protect Poland and its airspace,” said Germany.
• Kyiv’s government announced they are in “the very early stages” of talks with partners on possible foreign military contingents. However, it is too soon to talk specific numbers, a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson is reported to have said.
• The accusation is now flatly denied by Russia days after London charged a “Russian spy ship” had navigated through UK waters with a warning for retaliation.

Economics
The cargo volumes at Russian Railways slumped to a 15-year low in 2024, with shortages of labor and locomotives exacerbating capacity woes as Moscow redirects trade flows to Asia from Europe while fighting on in Ukraine, according to data and six sources speaking to Reuters news agency.