Russia-Ukraine conflict: Listing of key occasions, day 684 | Russia-Ukraine conflict Information

Because the conflict enters its 684th day, these are the principle developments.

Right here is the scenario on Monday, January 8, 2024.

Preventing

• Ukraine’s Air Pressure 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 Pressure 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 pinnacle 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 preventing on the entrance line in Ukraine marked Orthodox Christmas with navy monks main prayer companies.

Politics and diplomacy

• Japanese International 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 cell gasoline turbine mills and 7 transformers to keep up energy provides. Kamikawa was compelled to carry her press convention with Ukrainian International 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 instructed 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 International Minister Tobias Billstrom stated the first activity of Sweden’s overseas coverage within the coming years can be to help Ukraine.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy stated the conflict in Ukraine had proven the necessity for Europe to develop joint weapons manufacturing to make sure it could actually “protect itself” and defend its freedoms.