Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,046 | News about the Russia-Ukraine war

Here are the key developments on 1,046. Day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Sunday, January 5th:

Battle

Russia has pledged a response after it claimed to have shot down eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles that Ukraine fired at its border region of Belgorod.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russian and North Korean forces have suffered heavy casualties in fighting in Russia’s southern Kursk region. He said up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers were killed in the village of Makhnovka.
Zelensky also said that Russian guided bombings had hit two villages in the Sumy region and the neighboring Kharkiv region.
A Russian-directed bomb attack injured 10 people, including two children, in a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region near the Russian border.
Russian media outlet Izvestia said a Ukrainian drone strike killed its freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov. Data previously provided by the Committee to Protect Journalists found that at least 15 journalists have been killed since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described Martemyanov’s death as “premeditated murder” on her ministry’s website.
Russia’s RIA news agency said two of its correspondents traveling with Martemyanov were injured in the incident, as were two journalists working for a publication in Donetsk.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces took control of the village of Nadiya in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region and fired eight US-made ATACMS missiles.

The ministry also said its air defense systems shot down 10 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, including three over the northern Leningrad region.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of the village of Nadiya in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, Russian news agencies reported.

Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria has been left without Russian gas supplies from neighboring Ukraine, forcing it to suffer rolling power outages, local authorities said.
Oil from two aging and damaged Russian tankers was discovered off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Moscow-annexed Crimea, a Moscow-appointed official said.