Because the warfare enters its 684th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Monday, January 8, 2024.
Preventing
- Ukraine’s Air Power stated it shot down 21 out of 28 Russian drones aimed on the south and east of the nation. Russia additionally launched three cruise missiles, the Air Power added, with out providing additional particulars.
- Dnipropetrovsk regional authorities stated 12 individuals have been injured in a Russian drone assault on town of Dnipro.
- Native officers stated two individuals have been killed within the metropolis of Kherson after Russian forces occupying the alternative financial institution of the Dnipro River hit town with quite a few shelling assaults. Roman Mrochko, the top of the Kherson metropolis administration, stated a number of individuals have been additionally injured.
- Within the northeast, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Workplace stated one man was killed and two different civilians, together with a baby, injured in Russian shelling of Kupiansk.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry stated troopers combating on the entrance line in Ukraine marked Orthodox Christmas with navy clergymen main prayer providers.
Politics and diplomacy
- Japanese Overseas Minister Yoko Kamikawa, on an unannounced journey to Kyiv, promised $37m to NATO to assist Ukraine avert Russian drone strikes. She additionally stated Japan would donate 5 cellular fuel turbine turbines and 7 transformers to take care of energy provides. Kamikawa was pressured to carry her press convention with Ukrainian Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba underground after an air raid alert. “Japan is set to proceed to help Ukraine in order that peace can return,” she stated.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised a safety convention in Sweden that the state of affairs on the battlefield remained comparatively secure and that Russia could possibly be defeated.
- Talking on the identical occasion, Swedish Overseas Minister Tobias Billstrom stated the first job of Sweden’s overseas coverage within the coming years can be to help Ukraine.
Weapons
- Zelenskyy stated the warfare in Ukraine had proven the necessity for Europe to develop joint weapons manufacturing to make sure it could possibly “protect itself” and defend its freedoms.
