Ukraine struggle: ++ USA condemns Russian assault with Oreshnik missile as “inexplicable escalation” ++ Live ticker | EUROtoday

Russia’s air strikes proceed through the day after a number of stressed nights. There are extreme impacts in areas in jap Ukraine. In Kyiv, persons are struggling in sub-zero temperatures as a result of electrical energy and heating are out.

All occasions surrounding the struggle in Ukraine and worldwide safety coverage within the reside ticker:

10:47 p.m. – Governor: Dead after drone assault in Russia

According to Russian reviews, an individual was killed in a Ukrainian drone assault within the Bryansk border area. The area’s governor, Alexander Bogomas, stated he died whereas touring in a automotive within the village of Stratchovo, close to the border with Ukraine.

10:23 p.m. – US condemns Russian Oreshnik missile assault as “inexplicable escalation”

The USA condemns Russia’s assault on Ukraine with the fashionable Oreshnik medium-range missile. “This is another dangerous and inexplicable escalation as the United States works with Kiev, other partners and Moscow to end the war through a negotiated settlement,” U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Tammy Bruce stated Monday at an emergency U.N. Security Council assembly on the Ukraine struggle.

6:47 p.m. – Russian drones assault two ships within the Black Sea

Russian drones have attacked two foreign-flagged ships within the Black Sea, based on an insider. The ships had been close to the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Chornomorsk, an individual accustomed to the incident informed the Reuters information company. One of the ships was on its method to Italy.

4:42 p.m. – Moscow: Oreshnik hypersonic missile hit Ukrainian plane restore plant

Russia says its newest assault with a hypersonic Oreshnik missile hit an plane restore plant in Ukraine. The protection ministry in Moscow stated the plant in Lviv, close to the Polish border, was put out of motion within the assault. The operation repaired and maintained Ukrainian armed forces plane, together with F-16 and MiG-29 plane equipped by Western international locations. The firm additionally manufactured drones that had been used to assault civilian targets deep in Russian territory. Ukraine and its European supporters condemned Friday’s Russian missile assault. They noticed it as an try and intimidate the West. It was solely the second recognized use of this medium-range ballistic missile, which can be geared up with nuclear weapons, within the struggle.

It was the primary time that Moscow gave particular details about the goal of Friday’s Oreshnik assault. The use of the hypersonic medium-range missile close to the border with the EU triggered outraged reactions from Western governments.

4:27 p.m. – Rheinmetall delivers Lynx infantry combating car to Ukraine

Germany’s largest arms firm Rheinmetall is delivering 5 Lynx KF41 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. The first automobiles are scheduled to be delivered at the start of 2026, as the corporate introduced in Düsseldorf. The order worth for the 5 automobiles quantities to a mid-double-digit million euro quantity. The programs can be financed by the Federal Republic of Germany. “The next step is to procure additional lots, including production in Ukraine,” it stated.

1:11 p.m. – War as promoting: Moscow reviews report orders for weapons

According to data from Moscow, curiosity in Russian army tools overseas is at a report degree. “By 2022, the maximum contract value was $55 billion. Today we have a record with $70 billion in contracts already signed,” stated Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov at a gathering with Kremlin chief Putin. Manturov additionally attributed this to the struggle towards Ukraine ordered by Putin in 2022. “The technology tested as part of the military special operation promotes itself,” he stated. Russian officers describe the struggle towards the neighboring nation as a particular army operation.

Russian anti-aircraft complexes, plane and a number of rocket launchers are significantly in demand, stated Manturov. However, the excessive order degree additionally has a draw back. It was solely in December that Manturov admitted that export orders must lag behind the Russian military’s demand for brand spanking new weapons and would due to this fact solely be processed late.

9:44 a.m. – 35,000 households round Odessa with out energy

35,000 households within the Odessa area of southern Ukraine misplaced energy after a Russian drone assault. The electrical energy provider DTEK introduced this and spoke of extreme harm. “Restoring supply takes time,” the assertion stated. In the port metropolis of Odessa, the assault hit an infrastructure object and a residential constructing, as Mayor Serhiy Lyssak introduced on Telegram. Two individuals had been injured.

Because of the heavy air strikes of the previous few days, there’s nearly no electrical energy within the capital Kiev, Dnipro, Odessa and different cities in Ukraine. That’s why heating and water are additionally out. At the identical time there’s extreme frost with night time temperatures right down to minus 18 levels. The state of affairs is extraordinarily tense for thousands and thousands of individuals.

8:10 a.m. – Moscow’s struggle towards Kyiv is now longer than towards Berlin

The Russian struggle of aggression towards Ukraine has now lasted simply so long as the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War towards Hitler’s Germany. In addition to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the opposition Russian web site “Meduza” referred to those statistics. Soviet dictator Stalin declared the Great Patriotic War after the German assault in 1941.

The web site calculated that it took the Soviet Army 1,418 days to advance to Berlin after the primary setbacks towards the Wehrmacht and to drive the give up of Germany along with the Allies. In distinction, after 1,418 days of struggle in Ukraine, the Russian military has been “stuck in the same villages and towns of Donbass for years.” The statistics appeared yesterday, Sunday. Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine virtually 4 years in the past and anticipated to seize the capital Kiev inside days. The statistics weren’t talked about within the Russian state media.

Moscow wished to repeat the success of that point, stated Zelenskyj in his night video speech. “They repeated the mistreatment of people, repeated fascism, repeated almost everything that was the worst in the 20th century,” he harassed. “Yet the Russians are trying to conquer the same Donbass as they did almost four years ago, they want to lie again that they took Kupiansk.” That says “a lot about the system that (Kremlin leader Vladimir) Putin has built and simply about him personally,” stated Zelensky.

6:49 a.m. – Brantner requires extra stress from Merz and the EU on Putin

In the wrestle for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Green Party chief Franziska Brandtner is looking for extra dedication from Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t desire a ceasefire, and the required stress on him won’t come from US President Donald Trump, Brantner informed the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. “Merz and the EU must finally do that now.” Among the measures she talked about had been the arrest of Russia’s shadow fleet and the usage of Russian property. Countries that purchased Russian oil would additionally must be focused.

Germany should even be ready to safe a ceasefire militarily. When requested whether or not the Greens would conform to a Bundeswehr deployment in Ukraine, Brantner stated it could rely upon the mandate. “It is clear: if we do not secure a ceasefire well, the war will come even closer. It is crucial for our security to stop Putin in Ukraine.”

01:40 a.m. – Russian air raid on Kyiv

According to Ukrainian army reviews, Russia is attacking Kyiv from the air. A hearth broke out in one of many districts. The Ukrainian air protection is making an attempt to repel the assault, the top of the Kiev army administration, Timur Tkachenko, stated on Telegram.