Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 683

admin January 7, 2024

As we enter the 683rd day of the war, these are the most important developments.

Here is the situation as of Sunday, January 7, 2024.

Battle

At least eleven people, including five children, were killed by a Russian missile attack in and around the city Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. Vadym Filashkin, the regional governor of Ukraine’s partially occupied eastern Donetsk region, said eight people were injured in the attack.
The Ukrainian military said it carried out a successful attack on the Saky military air base in the west of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. “Saki Airfield! All targets were hit!” Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram. He also posted a photo that appeared to show the airfield.
Russia previously said its air defense units shot down Ukrainian missiles and drones targeting Crimea and the western part of the Black Sea. Russia invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Local officials in Belgorod – a Russian city about 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Ukraine – said an “aerial target” was shot down as it approached the city. As Russians prepared to celebrate Orthodox Christmas, Christmas Eve masses in Belgorod were canceled due to the “operational situation,” Mayor Valentin Demidov said.

When President Vladimir Putin met the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine on the eve of Russian Orthodox Christmas, he promised more support for the soldiers who defended Russia’s interests “with weapons in hand.”
In a rare public protest, about 15 Russian women, whose husbands were sent to fight in Russia’s major invasion, symbolically placed flowers in the flame of the Unknown Soldier beneath the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow and called for the men’s return from the front. About 244,000 Russians were mobilized to fight in Ukraine, out of a total force of about 617,000 soldiers.

The remains of the rocket supposedly supplied by North Korea in the snow [Serget Bobok/AFP]

Shalanda Young, U.S. President Joe Biden’s top budget official, warned that lawmakers in Congress are running out of time to increase U.S. aid to Ukraine. The financing took place blocked by the Republicans They want the $106 billion plan, which also includes support for Israel, to be linked to immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border. Young said the situation was “dire.”

Ukraine provided further evidence that Russia had attacked Ukraine with missiles delivered by North Koreaas the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office showed the media fragments of a weapon that hit the northeastern city on January 2nd. Spokesman Dmytro Chubenko said the rocket was slightly larger in diameter than Russia’s Iskander rocket, while its nozzle, internal electrical windings and rear parts were also different.
Russia aims to produce more than 32,000 drones every year by 2030 and that domestic manufacturers make up 70 percent of the market, state news agency TASS reported, citing First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.