Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,057 | Russia-Ukraine war news

Here’s the situation on Thursday, January 16:

Struggle

• This was reported by the Air Force of Ukraine Russia hit its western part With 43 cruise and ballistic missiles, including 74 drones.
• Russian authorities confirmed the attack, saying it was in response to Kiev’s airstrikes on Russian military factories and energy centers with US ATACMS missiles and UK-made Storm Shadow missiles.
• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s latest attacks on this country. energy sector, calls for more security assistance from foreign allies and for Kiev to be allowed to use some $250 billion in seized Russian assets to buy weapons.
• Russian regional governor Alexander Gusev said that the wreckage of the destroyed Ukrainian drones caused a fire at an oil depot in the south of Russia. Losses are not reported.

Regional security

• Russia and Iran are expected to sign a partnership agreement that will regulate relations between the two countries for the next 20 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks on this in Moscow on Friday.

Politics and diplomacy

• President Zelenskyy said 25 Ukrainians, including those who fought at the Russian-captured Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in 2022, would return “home to Ukraine” as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a press conference that Russia is planning “terrorist acts” against Poland and other countries.
• Zelensky said he expects the United States to continue supporting Ukraine’s military capabilities against Russia after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

• NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called on allies to “switch to a war mentality” in the current global situation. “To prevent war, we must prepare for it,” he said.
• According to the information, Trump’s advisers admitted that he solved the problem The war in Ukraine will take months if not more. Trump promised a peace deal on his first day in the White House.
• They also support scrapping Ukraine’s potential NATO membership and freezing existing battle lines in the country, as well as establishing a demilitarized zone patrolled by European troops.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he could finance an additional $3.1 billion in arms supplies to Ukraine by borrowing separately because there is “no money” otherwise.

Russian oil and gas

• Moldova’s pro-Moscow separatist leader, Vadim Krasnoselski, said that Transnistria expects Russia to resume supplying the region with “humanitarian gas” needed for heating and power generation by its population and industrial enterprises.