\nOvernight into Friday, Russia launched a large attack on Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least three and injuring 16 people in the capital Kyiv, according to The Associated Press news agency.
\nKyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko reported multiple districts in Kyiv were struck, including Desnyanskyi, where a drone crashed into a building and the first two floors of a residential building were damaged.
\nIn Kyiv\u2019s Dnipro district, a drone also damaged a multi-story building, and there were reports of a collapsed entrance in one structure.
\nParts of Kyiv also experienced disruption to running water and electricity services, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
\nKlitschko identified one of the dead as an emergency medical person who arrived at an apartment building that was hit by two drones in succession. Four more members of the emergency crew were injured in the same incident.
\nAn air alert was in effect in the capital for five hours.
\nA ballistic missile hit infrastructure in the western city of Lviv, according to the city\u2019s mayor, Andriy Sadoviy.
\nAn investigation has been opened into the type of missile employed in the Lviv attack, after the Western Command of Ukraine\u2019s Air Force recorded its speed at 13,000 kilometres per hour (more than 8,000 miles per hour).
\nThe bombardment happened after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned late on Thursday that \u201canother massive Russian attack may happen\u201d as Russian forces try to \u201cexploit the harsh winter weather\u201d for strategic advantage.
\nIn Russia\u2019s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a Ukrainian attack on local utilities left half a million people without power or heat and cut off water for nearly 200,000 people.
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A residential building is damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 9 [Efrem Lukatsky\/AP Photo]Politics and diplomacy:\nPresident Zelenskyy posted a message late on Thursday, encouraging the US to take action against Russia. \u201cRight now, Russia is betting more on winter than on diplomacy \u2013 on ballistic missiles against our energy system rather than on working with the United States and agreements with President Trump,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote. \u201cThis must change \u2013 through pressure on Russia and continued support for Ukraine.\u201d
\nIn a separate message, Zelenskyy announced progress with the US on a security deal. \u201cThe bilateral document on security guarantees for Ukraine is now essentially ready for finalization at the highest level with the President of the United States,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on the social media platform X. \u201cIt is important that Ukraine is successfully uniting the efforts of the European and American teams.\u201d
\nZelenskyy acknowledged that the US would continue to negotiate with Russia on peace talks, writing, \u201cWe understand that the American side will engage with Russia, and we expect feedback on whether the aggressor is genuinely willing to end the war.\u201d
\nA spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on Thursday that any European troops in Ukraine would be \u201cconsidered legitimate military targets\u201d. She called Ukraine and its allies an \u201caxis of war\u201d.
\nIn a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, US President Donald Trump positioned his country\u2019s military might as the primary bulwark standing in the way of Russia\u2019s expansionist goals. He also described himself as a good ally to Europe. \u201cI\u2019ve been very loyal to Europe. I\u2019ve done a good job. If it weren\u2019t for me, Russia would have all of Ukraine right now,\u201d he told the Times. \u201cIf you look at NATO, Russia I can tell you is not at all concerned with any other country but us.\u201d
\nTrump addressed the impending expiration of the New START treaty in February, which would mark the end of one of the last remaining nuclear non-proliferation agreements. \u201cIf it expires, it expires,\u201d Trump told the Times. \u201cWe\u2019ll just do a better agreement.\u201d He added that any future agreement should include China and other nuclear powers.
\nUkraine\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs marked the anniversary of the attack on Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, which was shot down by an Iranian missile on January 8, 2020. It said the Ukrainian government would continue to seek accountability for the 176 lives lost. \u201cWe are convinced that impunity for grave violations of international law, including international air law, undermines confidence in the international security system and creates preconditions for the repetition of similar crimes,\u201d the Foreign Ministry wrote.
\nA spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met on Thursday and reaffirmed their commitment to security guarantees for Ukraine. The two leaders also expressed optimism about the meeting between US and Russian envoys in Paris this week. \u201cBoth leaders welcomed the strong commitments by all participants in Paris,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cIt was vital that the security guarantees for Ukraine ensured Russia was never able to invade again, the leaders reiterated.\u201d
\nThe Downing Street spokesperson also said Starmer and Rutte called for more efforts to defend against Russian encroachments in the High North region, a term used to refer to the Arctic and surrounding areas.
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A residential building is seen damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 9 [Efrem Lukatsky\/AP Photo]Sanctions:\nIn an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump addressed the seizure of the Russian oil tanker, the Marinera, earlier this week. \u201cThey had some Russian ships guarding it, and they decided not to mess around with us,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe took that one, and it\u2019s unloading the oil. We\u2019re taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil.\u201d
\nIn the United Kingdom, John Swinney, the first minister of Scotland, offered measured support for the US seizure of the Russian tanker. \u201cIf this is a measure to enforce agreed sanctions that were being circumvented by the use of this tanker, then I support that action,\u201d Swinney said, according to local media. \u201cBecause where sanctions are put in place to tackle the unacceptable illegal behaviour of a state like Russia in Ukraine, I think those sanctions should be enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the key developments from day 1,415 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Published On 9 Jan 20269…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6901,2057,43,14512,44,84,2016,59350,41,39,42,40,5525,2011],"class_list":{"0":"post-401626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}