Here is the situation on Friday, January 10:
Fighting
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Two people were killed when Russian forces shelled the town of Siversk in the Donetsk region, according to Governor Vadym Filaskhin.
- Two people were also killed when the town of Kamyanka-Dniprovska in the Russian-controlled area of Zaporizhia region, came under Ukrainian fire, Moscow-appointed Governor Yevgeny Belitsky said. On Wednesday, a Russian guided bomb attack on Ukrainian-controlled area of the region killed at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others.
- Ukraine’s air force said Russia has launched more than 51,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine since the start of its full-blown invasion nearly three years ago.
- Russian forces have established a bridgehead on the Ukrainian-held side of the front-line Oskil river in the east of the country, an official said, pointing to Kyiv’s mounting battlefield struggles. The river is the de facto front line in parts of the eastern Kharkiv region.
Weapons
- An international coalition to procure unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Ukraine, co-led by the United Kingdom and Latvia, will send 30,000 newly ordered drones to Kyiv, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.
Politics and diplomacy
Transport
- The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned non-European carriers not to fly in western Russian airspace due to the risk of being unintentionally targeted by its air defence systems.
- EASA said the crash last month in Kazakhstan of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, as Russian air defences fired on Ukrainian drones, demonstrated the high risk. At least 38 people died in the crash.
