Here are the key developments on Day 1,048 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Tuesday, January 7:

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• The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have captured the village of Dachinsk, south of Pokrovsk, another major city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and a target of Russian forces.
• Ukrainian police said a Russian drone struck a bus in the Kherson neighborhood on Monday, killing one person and injuring eight others.
• Ukrainian President Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army invaded the Kursk region for five months and Russia suffered heavy losses, resulting in nearly 15,000 deaths. He added that the occupation of Russia’s southern regions allowed Kiev’s forces to establish a buffer zone, forcing Moscow to divert military forces from frontline areas in eastern Ukraine.
• Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers deserted while training in France, a French army official told AFP. The troops are now subject to a disciplinary system “implemented by the Ukrainian command.”

Politics and Diplomacy

• French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Ukraine to have “realistic” aspirations for territory as its fight against Russian aggression enters its fourth year, saying he sees no “quick and easy solution” to the conflict.
• Moldovan authorities have summoned a Russian diplomat amid concerns about worsening tensions in Transnistria. The breakaway region faces the risk of a complete blackout after Russia cut off natural gas supplies.
• U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming special envoy to Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, has postponed a fact-finding trip to Kiev and other European capitals until Trump’s January 20, according to sources. After taking office on the same day.
• The Russian Orthodox Patriarch, who celebrated Christmas with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said the Western world despised Russia and its “alternative path to the development of civilization.”