Russo-Ukrainian War: List of Key Events, Day 1045 | News about the Russian-Ukrainian war

Here are the key events on the 1,045th day since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Here's the situation on Saturday, January 5:

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One person was killed and five were injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Ukraine's air force said it shot down 60 of 93 Russian drones launched in the early hours of Friday morning.
Three rockets hit a residential area near the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, killing one, wounding five and destroying two houses.
Four people were wounded in shelling of the town of Slavyansk near the front line in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had fired 300 attack drones and 20 missiles at Ukrainian targets in the first three days of 2025.

Russia's creeping advance in Donetsk has captured 4,168 square kilometers (1,609 square miles) of territory at the cost of 430,000 troops, according to a new analysis.
Ukraine will reportedly receive its first French Mirage 2000-5F multirole fighter jets this month, according to French magazine Avions Legendaires.
A Russian court has ordered Russia's largest search engine Yandex to hide maps and photos of one of the country's largest oil refineries following repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones, state news agency TASS reported.

United States President Joe Biden is expected to announce additional security assistance to Ukraine in the coming days, according to White House spokesman John Kirby.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told the Financial Times that he believed China had intervened to stop Russia from using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
A Finnish court has refused to release an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an underwater power line and four telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. The tanker Eagle S was carrying Russian oil when the cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged on December 25 along with four telecommunications lines.

Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzya told the state-run Rossiya-1 television channel that there is “nothing interesting” in US President-elect Donald Trump's proposals to end the war in Ukraine.
Blinken will begin his final trip in the role this weekend, which the State Department said will conclude with meetings in Paris to discuss European security and Ukraine with French officials.

Oil from two aging and damaged Russian oil tankers was found off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Moscow-annexed Crimea, on Friday, according to local authorities. The ships were hit by a storm last month, with one sinking and the other aground, spilling around 2,400 tonnes of fuel oil into the surrounding waters.