Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,040 | News about the Russia-Ukraine war

Here are the key developments on 1,040. Day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Monday, December 30th:

Battle:

The Ukrainian Air Force reported Monday that its air defenses shot down 21 of 43 drones fired by Russia in a nighttime attack. The attack targeted six regions across the country, the air force said, adding that 22 other drones were “lost.”
According to a report by the Interfax news agency on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian troops had captured the village of Novotroitske in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
Russian soccer star Aleksei Bugayev, 43, who played for the national team at Euro 2004, was killed in “fierce fighting,” according to Russian media, citing his father and his agent. In September, Bugayev was jailed for drug trafficking. He was one of several prisoners of war recruited for the war.

Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa met on Monday with a high-level Ukrainian delegation led by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported. Under ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Syria was a close ally of Russia for decades.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that the country would lift a moratorium on the deployment of medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles because the United States had “arrogantly ignored the warnings of Russia and China” and used “weapons of this class” in various parts of the country World. Russia’s move will wipe out any remnants of the New START Treaty to reduce nuclear weapons amid fears of a new arms race.
In several European Union countries, Russian state media was apparently blocked on the social media platform Telegram. The channels of the RIA Novosti news agency, Russia-1, Channel One Russia and NTV Television, as well as the newspapers Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta were inaccessible throughout the bloc on Sunday. Neither Telegram nor EU sources have yet commented on the disruption. Moscow called the move “an act of censorship.”

Moldova’s separatist Transnistria region cut off gas deliveries to several state institutions – including a medical facility and a police station – on Sunday, two days before a deal to transit Russian gas through Ukraine expires after Ukraine refused to do so To extend delivery in wartime. The move sparked fears of massive New Year power outages in the former Soviet state.
Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks stretching dozens of kilometers along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where a Cook Islands-registered tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of using its anchor to destroy a power line and four telecommunications cables. Baltic Sea states are on high alert following a series of failures in power cables, telecommunications links and gas pipelines since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said he wanted Russia to accept the shootdown Azerbaijan Airlines plane Last week he said he had witnessed “clear attempts to cover up the matter”. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Aliyev on Saturday for the “tragic incident” in Russian airspace after Russian air defenses attacked Ukrainian attack drones, but a Kremlin statement did not say that Russia shot down the plane, but dismissed it merely indicated that criminal proceedings had been initiated.

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