Russo-Ukrainian War: List of Key Events, Day 1040 | News about the Russian-Ukrainian war

Here are the key events on the 1,040th day since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Ukraine's air force said on Monday that its air defenses had shot down 21 of 43 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack. The attack targeted six regions of the country, the air force said, adding that another 22 drones were “lost”.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces had captured the village of Novotroitske in Ukraine's Donetsk region, according to a report by the Interfax news agency on Sunday.
Russian soccer star Alexei Bugaev, 43, who played for the national team at Euro 2004, was killed in “fierce fighting,” according to Russian media, citing his father and agent. In September, Bugaev was jailed on charges of drug trafficking. He was one of a number of prisoners recruited for the war.

Syria's de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa met on Monday with a high-ranking Ukrainian delegation led by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiha, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported. For decades under ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Syria was a close ally of Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday that the country would lift a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range nuclear missiles because the United States had “arrogantly ignored the warnings of Russia and China” and deployed “weapons of this class” in different parts of the world. Russia's move would destroy what remains of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, amid fears of a new arms race.
Russian state media appears to have been blocked on the Telegram social media platform in several European Union countries. The channels of the news agency RIA Novosti, Russia-1, the First Channel of Russia and the television NTV, as well as the newspapers “Izvestia” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” were not available in the entire block on Sunday. Neither Telegram nor EU sources have yet commented on the outage. Moscow called the move an “act of censorship”.

Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region cut off gas supplies to several state institutions – including a medical facility and a police station – on Sunday, two days before a deal allowing Russian gas to transit through Ukraine expires after the latter refused to extend it during the war. The move sparked fears of massive New Year blackouts in the former Soviet state.
Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks trailing for tens of kilometers along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where a Cook Islands-registered tanker carrying Russian oil is believed to have snapped a power line and four telecommunications cables with its anchor . nations of the Baltic Sea are on high alert after a series of disruptions to power cables, telecommunications links and gas pipelines since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said he wants Russia to accept him deposed Airplane of Azerbaijan Airlines last week, saying he had witnessed “clear attempts to cover up the matter”. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Aliyev on Saturday for the “tragic incident” in Russian airspace after Russian air defenses engaged Ukrainian attack drones, but a Kremlin statement did not say Russia had shot down the plane, only saying there was a punitive case is open.