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Here are the key developments on day 1,053 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This is Condition Sunday, January 12:
struggle
- The Russian Defense Ministry said troops had taken control of the Shevchenko settlement near the Pokrovsk logistics center, a key target for Russian forces moving through Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine has yet to acknowledge the loss of the town.
- The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that 46 of 56 Russian attacks on more than a dozen towns in the Pokrovsk region were repelled, and several conflicts continue.
- A Ukrainian drone attacked one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in Tanenko, Tatarstan, Russian telegram channel ASTRA reported.
- An official in Moscow said fuel leaked from the crashed Russian tanker had spread into the Sea of Azov and reached the coast of Ukraine’s part of the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye region.
- Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service confirmed Ukraine’s claims on Sunday.
shadow fleet
- Germany continued its efforts to secure a heavily loaded oil tanker stranded on its northern coast and towed the stricken tanker away from the shore, saying the tanker was part of Russia’s sanctions-busting “shadow fleet” to avoid a leak. Oil. According to reports, the 274-meter-long Eventin, carrying nearly 100,000 tons of oil, was drifting in the Baltic Sea and “uncontrollable.”
sanctions
- Russia’s foreign ministry condemned new U.S. sanctions on Moscow’s energy sector on Saturday, saying it was an attempt to harm the Russian economy at the risk of destabilizing global markets and said the country would continue to press ahead with major oil and gas projects.
diplomatic
- Keith Kellogg, US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming special envoy to Ukraine, told an Iran-contra event in Paris that the world must return to a policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran to turn it into a more democratic country. Relations between Russia and Iran have strengthened significantly since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022.
