Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 697 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the principle developments because the battle enters its 697th day.

Right here is the state of affairs on Sunday, January 21, 2024.

Combating

• A hearth broke out at a pure fuel terminal within the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, the regional governor mentioned early on Sunday. A excessive alert regime has been launched within the Kingiseppsky district, which incorporates the port, and no casualties have been reported, in response to the AFP information company.
• Russia’s parliament will consider a law permitting for the confiscation of cash, valuables, and different property from these deemed to unfold “intentionally false info” about Moscow’s army actions, a senior lawmaker mentioned on Saturday.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Saturday that he anticipated a lot of new Western defence packages for Ukraine to be signed this and subsequent month. “We’re getting ready new agreements with companions – sturdy bilateral agreements,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly video handle.
• The spouse of a Russian soldier delivered an emotional enchantment for his return from Ukraine on Saturday on the election headquarters of President Vladimir Putin, a defiant gesture in a rustic the place open criticism of the battle is banned.
• The Ministry of Defence in the UK acknowledged on Saturday that Ukraine sustains a army presence alongside the left financial institution of the Dnipro River and persists in heading off Russian assaults regardless of logistical challenges.
• Russia has misplaced 375,270 troopers in Ukraine because the starting of the battle, together with 750 over the previous day, the Basic Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed on Saturday. The quantity has not been independently verified.

Diplomacy and politics

• Zelenskyy mentioned in an interview aired on Friday that he was anxious on the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White Home, branding the previous US president’s declare that he might cease Ukraine’s battle with Russia in 24 hours as “very harmful”.
• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico informed public broadcaster RTVS on Saturday that neighbouring Ukraine was not a sovereign nation however was underneath absolutely the management of the USA.
• North Korea mentioned on Sunday it has agreed to additional strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to ascertain a “new multi-polarised worldwide order” as the 2 international locations work to construct a united entrance within the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the US.
• Putin could go to Pyongyang quickly, North Korea’s state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
• The dimensions of NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024 workouts mark an “irrevocable return” of the alliance to Chilly Conflict schemes, Russia’s Deputy Overseas Minister Alexander Grushko informed the state information company RIA in remarks printed on Sunday.