The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1043 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Here are the main developments on the 1,043rd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Thursday, January 2:

Fighting

• Russia launched a drone airstrike early in the morning on New Year’s Day in the area Ukrainian capital Kyiv It killed two people, injured at least six others, and damaged buildings in two areas.
• The state emergency service said that two floors of a residential building in central Kiev were partially destroyed in the attack.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that with the start of the new year, all Moscow could think about was hurting Ukraine: “Until New Year’s Eve, Russia was only interested in how to hurt Ukraine.”

• The Ukrainian army said it shot down 63 out of 111 drones launched by Russia on Wednesday night, while 46 were shot down due to electronic jamming.
• According to local authorities, several residential buildings in the city of Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine caught fire during the night after the attacks and a woman was rescued.
• Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Sersky visited Ukrainian forces in the Russian border region of Kursk and said that the Russian army had lost more than 34,000 soldiers, either killed or wounded, in its attempts to expel Ukrainian soldiers from Russian territory.
• Over the past five months, nearly 700 Russian prisoners of war have been captured, and Ukraine could replace them with its own people held in Russian captivity, Syrsky said.

economy

• Transit Russian gas via Ukraine to Europe Russian and Ukrainian authorities said he had been suspended.
• Russia’s Gazprom said it did not have the legal or technical means to pump gas through Ukraine after Kiev allowed a gas transport contract to expire.
• President Zelensky said the decision Stopping the transit of Russian gas Through Ukraine it was “one of Moscow’s greatest defeats”.

• Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Haloshenko described the transit halt as a “historic event” and a decision taken “in the interest of national security.”
• Poland also hailed the end of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski saying the cut off represented “a new victory after the expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden.”

Putin has spent billions building Nordstream to circumvent Ukraine and blackmail Eastern Europe by threatening to cut off gas supplies. Today Ukraine cut off its ability to export gas directly to the European Union.
Another victory after NATO expansion by Finland and Sweden.

— Radek Sikorski (@radeksikorski) January 1, 2025

• The Russian company Gazprom stopped gas supplies to Slovakia after the expiration of a transit agreement to transport gas through Ukraine.
• Slovak gas importer SPP said it had prepared for such a situation and would supply all its customers via alternative routes, especially via pipelines from Germany and Hungary, but would face additional costs in transit fees.
• The Slovak government criticized Ukraine’s decision, with pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico in turn threatening to stop electricity supplies from Slovakia to Ukraine.
• Residents of the breakaway region of Transdniestria in Moldova felt the gas flow cut off immediately, forcing them to cut off heating and hot water supplies to homes. The majority Russian-speaking region, with a population of about 450,000, separated from Moldova in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there are still about 1,500 soldiers stationed there.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government and Sberbank, the country’s largest bank, to build cooperation with China in the field of artificial intelligence. Putin’s instructions were published on the Kremlin’s website, three weeks after he announced that Russia would cooperate with BRICS partners and other countries to develop artificial intelligence.