Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,058 | Russia-Ukraine war news

Here are the highlights of the 1058th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Here’s the situation on Friday, January 17:

Struggle

• A Ukrainian official said that a large ammunition factory in Russia’s Tambov region was attacked. Russia has not made any statement about the attack.
• Ukraine’s Charter Brigade says it has deployed an unmanned vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun in combat for the first time. The brigade claimed it was the first documented ground attack using an unmanned combat vehicle in a war against Russia. According to information from the brigade, the car was met by a storm of Russian artillery.
• Ukraine has announced that it has sentenced one of its former officials to 15 years in prison on charges of treason for aiding Russian forces. The officer is believed to have provided food and information to the Russian military about Ukraine’s Sumy region.

Regional Security

• The head of Finnish military intelligence, Pekka Turunen, said that planned Russian military reforms would increase Moscow’s troop capacity by 30 percent. He assessed it as a threat that should be met with vigilance for NATO.

Russian Oil and Gas

• Transnistria and Moldova have accused each other of torpedoing a proposed meeting on Friday to resolve the breakaway enclave’s ongoing energy crisis. The Moldovan Reintegration Bureau said that Transnistria rejected Chisinau’s offer to meet, and the Transnistrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Oleg Serebryan.

Diplomacy

• Great Britain and Ukraine signed a “historic” agreement 100 year contract Russia-Ukraine offers security guarantee to Ukraine in case of ceasefire. The agreement, which recognizes Ukraine as a “future NATO ally”, covers several areas such as defense, energy and trade.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his country would play its “full role” in securing Ukraine and promised to provide a “mobile air defense system” tailored to Ukraine’s needs. He also promised to strengthen maritime cooperation with Ukraine through new security frameworks in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Sea of ​​Azov.
• Russian and Ukrainian officials held talks on the search for missing residents of Russia’s Kursk border region after Ukraine’s advance into Russian territory last August. According to Ukraine, about 2,000 civilians remain in the territory it controls, while Russia says about 1,000 people are missing.

Humanitarian Aid

• The United Nations has launched an appeal for $3.32 billion by 2025 to support the 8.2 million people affected by the war in Ukraine, including refugees. Humanitarian organizations in Ukraine also plan to provide essential services to six million people this year.
• Tom Fletcher, UN Secretary-General’s Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergencies, said that the international community must stand firmly behind the humanitarian aid plans “as strongly as the people of Ukraine”.
• Filippo Grandi, the High Commissioner of the UN Refugee Agency, emphasized the importance of continuous support to the Ukrainian people and said, “It is not time to forget that millions of Ukrainians have been displaced.”
• Ukrainians who lost relatives as a result of Russia’s war against their country filed more than 13,000 applications to the register of damages to Ukraine, which was opened in The Hague in April, demanding more than 821 million dollars in compensation for damages, losses and injuries. This registry, created by the Council of Europe and the European Union, will ultimately process financial summaries with the aim of obtaining compensation from Moscow for the war against Ukraine.