Because the warfare enters its 684th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the scenario on Monday, January 8, 2024.
Preventing
- Ukraine’s Air Power mentioned 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 mentioned 12 individuals have been injured in a Russian drone assault on town of Dnipro.
- Native officers mentioned 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, mentioned a number of individuals have been additionally injured.
- Within the northeast, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Workplace mentioned one man was killed and two different civilians, together with a baby, injured in Russian shelling of Kupiansk.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry mentioned troopers preventing on the entrance line in Ukraine marked Orthodox Christmas with navy monks 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 mentioned Japan would donate 5 cell fuel turbine mills and 7 transformers to keep up energy provides. Kamikawa was compelled 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 mentioned.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised a safety convention in Sweden that the scenario on the battlefield remained comparatively secure and that Russia might be defeated.
- Talking on the identical occasion, Swedish Overseas Minister Tobias Billstrom mentioned the first activity of Sweden’s overseas coverage within the coming years could be to help Ukraine.
Weapons
- Zelenskyy mentioned the warfare in Ukraine had proven the necessity for Europe to develop joint weapons manufacturing to make sure it might “protect itself” and defend its freedoms.