The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24 continues, with casualties rising on both sides.
Ukrainian forces are mounting a strong counteroffensive against Russian troops, reclaiming territory lost when Moscow launched its invasion.
Ukraine has managed to withstand the Russian onslaught with the help of Western military aid, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy regularly calls on the world to do more. For all our coverage, visit our Ukraine war page.
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Here are the latest developments:
Sunday, Jan. 1 (Tokyo time)
8:37 p.m. Ukraine’s Air Force command said it had destroyed 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight — 32 of them on Sunday after midnight and 13 late on Saturday. That was on top of 31 missile attacks and 12 air strikes across the country in the past 24 hours.
7:55 a.m. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his only wish for all Ukrainians for 2023 was victory and resolved to stay the course while the country fights for it.
“I want to wish all of us one thing – victory. And that’s the main thing. One wish for all Ukrainians,” Zelenskiy, dressed in his trademark khaki outfit, said in a video message a few minutes before midnight. “We were told to surrender. We chose a counterattack!” he said.
“We are ready to fight for it (freedom). That’s why each of us is here. I’m here. We are here. You are here. Everyone is here. We are all Ukraine.”
12:47 a.m. Russia fires more than 20 cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least one person in the capital, Kyiv, and injuring more than a dozen in an attack that Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets calls “terror on New Year’s Eve.”
Moscow’s second major missile attack in three days damages a hotel south of Kyiv’s center and a residential building in another district. A Japanese journalist is among the wounded and taken to hospital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko says.
“The terrorist country is congratulating the Ukrainian people with missiles,” Lubinets said. “But we are indestructible and unconquerable. There is no fear, but the fury is rising. We will definitely win.”
Saturday, Dec. 31
11:57 p.m. President Vladimir Putin devotes his annual New Year’s address to rallying the Russian public behind his troops fighting in Ukraine and pledging victory over Ukrainian “neo-Nazis” and a West supposedly intent on “destroying Russia.”
For months, the Kremlin presented the conflict as a limited campaign that would affect few Russians. But Putin’s speech, delivered in front of grim-faced soldiers, tells families that the months ahead will require support and sacrifice from everyone.
5:00 a.m. As 2022 draws to a close, Russian and Ukrainian losses continue to mount. But Russian forces have borne the brunt of the attrition, estimates show.
Russia had lost about 8,500 pieces of equipment in the war as of Dec. 24, about triple Ukraine’s total of roughly 2,660, estimates on the website Oryx show.
The website is documenting equipment losses — destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured vehicles and other machinery — on both sides. Only losses backed by photographic or video evidence are counted, according to Oryx.
In terms of ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s military estimates that Russia has enough supplies left for only two or three more of the massive waves of strikes that it has launched against Ukrainian cities.
In just three months of such attacks, Russia has used an estimated six years’ worth of missile output — 549 missiles, based on confirmed strikes.
4:30 a.m. The Biden administration has reportedly expressed concern about China’s relations with Russia after Xi Jinping’s call with Vladimir Putin.
“Beijing claims to be neutral, but its behavior makes clear it is still investing in close ties to Russia,” Reuters quotes a State Department spokesperson as saying.
The U.S. reaction comes after Putin told Xi that he was looking forward to a visit from the Chinese leader next year and that the two presidents shared the same view on Western “pressure” and “provocations.”
Friday, Dec. 30
7:30 p.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin tells Xi Jinping in a video meeting that he is looking forward to a visit by the Chinese leader to Moscow in spring 2023.
Putin says the visit would “demonstrate to the whole world the strength of Russian-Chinese ties on key issues.” But a readout of Xi’s remarks makes no mention of the Moscow visit.
Xi has refrained from condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but in September Putin revealed that the Chinese leader had “concerns” over Russia’s actions. Read more.
4:00 a.m. Kazakhstan seeks to ship oil to Germany through a Russian pipeline next year.
Kazakh oil pipeline company KazTransOil has applied to transport 1.2 million tonnes of oil bound for Germany through the Druzhba pipeline, Interfax reports, citing the company’s news service. Moscow is prepared to approve Kazakhstan’s application, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak is quoted as saying.
The European Union has agreed to stop buying seaborne Russian oil in order to sap Moscow’s funding for its war in Ukraine, but the sprawling Druzhba pipeline itself is not covered by this restriction. German refineries are connected to the pipeline. Kazakh oil, most of which is piped through Russia, represents an alternative to Russian crude.
12:30 a.m. Japanese insurers will continue covering ships sailing through Russian waters against war damage in January and beyond, reversing an earlier decision to halt coverage, Nikkei has learned.
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, Sompo Japan Insurance and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance had started informing clients on Dec. 23 that they would stop offering war risk coverage in Russian waters starting Jan. 1, after Western reinsurers withdrew coverage in Russia and Ukraine.
Ships need this additional layer of coverage in order to sail through areas where they could suffer damage from acts of war. Read more.
Thursday, Dec. 29
11:55 p.m. Belarus says it has downed a Ukrainian air defense missile on its territory.
Pieces of a what Belarusian authorities described as an S-300 missile were found in a field, state television reports. No casualties have been reported. Belarus lodged a protest with the Ukrainian ambassador.
In a statement, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense says it is ready to conduct an objective investigation of the incident. The ministry also says its does not rule out “a deliberate provocation by the terrorist state of Russia” to provoke the shootdown over Belarusian territory.
The apparently stray air interceptor fell on Belarus as Russia launched volleys of missiles against Ukraine in what Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called “senseless barbarism.”
Russian ally Belarus allowed Russian forces on its territory in February but says it is not involved in Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
3:00 a.m. Thanks to Ukraine, the world has remembered “what it means to be winners,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in a speech to his country’s parliament.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s partners can feel they are sharing in the countries victories.
“We helped the West to find itself again, to return to the global arena and to feel how much the West prevails,” the Ukrainian says in a speech that follows his trip to Washington, where he addressed the U.S. Congress.
“For the first time in history, some European countries have reconsidered the concept of neutrality and are resisting aggression together with us, together with Ukraine,” he also says to his country’s lawmakers.
Wednesday, Dec. 28
11:00 p.m. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issues a statement marking four years since former American Marine Paul Whelan was detained in Russia.
“His detention remains unacceptable, and we continue to press for his immediate release at every opportunity,” Blinken says. “I am committed to bringing home Paul and all U.S. hostages and wrongful detainees held around the world.”
Convicted of spying, Whelan has been sentenced to 16 years in Russian prison. He denies the charges against him, and the U.S. has denounced the conviction as based on secret evidence.
Whelan’s family says it hasn’t given up on securing his freedom following the release of American basketball start Brittney Griner, who had been serving time in a Russian penal colony on a drug conviction. Griner was released earlier this month in a high-profile prisoner swap.
10:45 p.m. The Kremlin dismisses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace plan, saying that proposals to end the conflict in Ukraine must consider what it calls “today’s realities” of four Ukrainian regions having joined Russia.
“There can be no peace plan for Ukraine that does not take into account today’s realities regarding Russian territory, with the entry of four regions into Russia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “Plans that do not take these realities into account cannot be peaceful.”
1:00 p.m. Indian police are investigating the death of Russian businessman-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov, 65, who was found Saturday in a pool of blood outside his hotel where he was on holiday in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, news outlets report.
Antov’s death came two days after his friend and travel companion Vladimir Budanov, 61, died of a heart attack. Police think Antov fell from the hotel terrace.
Antov made is fortune in sausages before becoming a regional lawmaker. In June, he denied posting an anti-war message on social media.
3:00 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for her support for his country in a phone call.
Meloni tells Zelenskyy she intends to travel to Kyiv, and she invites him to visit Rome, she says in a Twitter post.
1:45 a.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order banning exports of oil and oil products to countries that have imposed a price cap on one of his country’s most important goods.
The Group of Seven’s $60 price ceiling on seaborne Russian crude is meant to limit Moscow’s ability to fund its war in Ukraine. Putin had warned that it would cut off oil exports to any country abiding by the cap.
The order runs from Feb. 1 to July 1 of next year and grants Putin the power to make special exceptions. It applies to crude oil from Feb. 1, but the start date for the oil products ban will be set separately by the government.
The price cap, enforced by the G-7 nations, the European Union and Australia, comes on top of an EU embargo on imports of Russian crude by sea and similar pledges by the U.S., Canada, Japan and the U.K.
Tuesday, Dec. 27
7:16 a.m. Moscow’s proposals for “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine are known to Kyiv, and it is up to Ukrainian authorities to fulfill them — otherwise the Russian army will decide the issue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.
“Our proposals for the demilitarization and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia’s security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy,” Russian news cited Lavrov as saying. “The point is simple: Fulfill them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.”
6:32 a.m. A drone believed to be Ukrainian penetrated hundreds of kilometers through Russian airspace, causing a deadly explosion at the main base for Moscow’s strategic bombers — the latest attack to expose gaps in Russia’s air defenses. Moscow says it shot down the drone, causing it to crash at Engels air base, where three service members were killed.
Under its usual policy on incidents inside Russia, Ukraine did not comment. The base is the main airfield for the bombers that Kyiv says Moscow has used in recent months to attack Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
6:15 a.m. Nearly 9 million people remain without electricity in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in his nightly video address, noting that power workers repairing the grid after repeated Russian attacks had reconnected many people over Christmas but problems persist.
12:20 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks India’s help with enacting a “peace formula” in talks Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“I had a phone call with PM Narendra Modi and wished a successful [Group of 20] presidency,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter. “It was on this platform that I announced the peace formula and now I count on India’s participation in its implementation.”
Modi conveyed support for any peace efforts during the call, India’s government says. India, which has not explicitly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seeks to strengthen trade with Moscow while Western nations introduce new measures to limit Russia’s funding of the war.
Monday, Dec. 26
4:10 a.m. President Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to talk, even as recent attacks in Kherson and other Ukrainian cities raise doubts as to whether peace is imminent.
Moscow is “prepared to negotiate some acceptable outcomes with all the participants of this process,” Putin tells state television. He again blames Kyiv for not wanting to negotiate — it has demanded a withdrawal as a precondition, which Moscow has rejected — and claims that his country has “no other choice” and is acting in its national interests.
Putin’s remarks come days after reports that he publicly called the conflict a “war” for the first time instead of the official term “special military operation.”
Sunday, Dec. 25
10:38 p.m. Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world, instead of the traditional Jan. 7 shared with Russians, The Associated Press reports.
The leadership of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is not aligned with the Russian church and one of two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, agreed in October to allow the faithful to celebrate on Dec. 25, according to the AP.
9:52 p.m. Foreign Minister Wang Yi defends China’s position on the war and signals a strengthening of “rock-solid” ties with Russia in the coming year.
China will “deepen strategic mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation” with Russia, he says in the official text of a speech. Warships from the two countries kicked off this year’s Joint Sea annual naval drills in the East China Sea last week.
“With regard to the Ukraine crisis, we have consistently upheld the fundamental principles of objectivity and impartiality, without favoring one side or the other, or adding fuel to the fire, still less seeking selfish gains from the situation,” Wang says.
Saturday, Dec. 24
1:00 a.m. Three Japanese insurers will stop insuring ships for war damage in all Russian waters on Jan. 1, a decision that could affect Japan’s energy imports, Nikkei has learned. Read more.
Friday, Dec. 23
2:30 p.m. Russia may cut oil output by 5% to 7% in early 2023 as it responds to price caps on its crude and oil products by halting sales to the countries that support the caps, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak tells state television. Detailing for the first time the Russian response to the price caps introduced by the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Novak said the cuts could amount to 500,000 barrels to 700,000 barrels per day. The European Union, G-7 nations and Australia on Dec. 5 introduced a $60 per barrel price cap on Russian oil, on top of the EU’s embargo on imports of Russian crude by sea and similar pledges by the United States, Canada, Japan and Britain.
9:30 a.m. North Korea’s foreign ministry denied a media report it supplied munitions to Russia, calling it “groundless,” and denounced the U.S. for providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, the North’s official KCNA news agency reports. Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun reported earlier that North Korea had shipped munitions, including artillery shells, to Russia by train through their border last month and that additional shipments were expected in the coming weeks. “The Japanese media’s false report that the DPRK offered munitions to Russia is the most absurd red herring, which is not worth any comment or interpretation,” a ministry spokesperson said in a statement carried by the KCNA.
5:00 a.m. North Korea has delivered an arms shipment to the private Russian military company Wagner Group to support Moscow’s Ukraine war effort, the White House says.
“We can confirm that North Korea has completed an initial arms delivery to Wagner, which paid for that equipment,” John Kirby, spokesperson for the National Security Council, tells reporters. Read more.
3:45 a.m. Russia wants the war in Ukraine to end “as soon as possible,” President Vladimir Putin tells reporters. Putin says that the intensification of hostilities leads to unjustified losses and that Russia has never given up on negotiations to end the conflict.
Putin’s comments follow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s trip to the U.S., where he thanked the American public for its military aid to his country.
Putin says the Patriot air defense system, which the U.S. will supply to Ukraine in its latest aid package, will only serve to prolong the conflict.
“We will always be able to find an antidote,” he says on Russia’s response to Ukrainian forces receiving the Patriot system, which he calls “old.”
1:00 a.m. The U.S. announces sanctions on 10 industrial companies and other organizations connected to Russia’s navy. The targets include battery supplier Rigel and Elektropribor, which makes navigation equipment for submarines.
The latter company “works to ensure high operational availability of Moscow’s naval submarine forces,” the U.S. State Department says in a news release.
Thursday, Dec. 22
11:30 p.m. The Group of Seven wealthy nations are prepared to do more to support Ukraine financially, their finance ministers say in a joint statement. The G-7 already has mobilized up to $32 billion in budgetary and economic support.”Japan stands ready to provide support in response to the financial needs of Ukraine in 2023 as well,” Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki tells reporters after the teleconference with other G-7 financial chiefs.
6:00 p.m. Russia accuses Japan of abandoning decades of pacifist policy and embracing “unbridled militarization,” in response to a 430 trillion yen ($320 billion) defense plan announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week. “It can be clearly seen that Tokyo has embarked on the path of an unprecedented buildup of its own military power, including the acquisition of strike potential,” the Russian foreign ministry says in a statement. Kishida’s plan will double defense outlay to about 2% of gross domestic product over five years.
Russia is not alone. North Korea has slammed Japan’s plans to beef up its defense capabilities as “blackhearted” and an “arms buildup for reinvasion.” Read more.
10:20 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells the U.S. Congress that the tens of billions of dollars of aid it had approved to help fight a Russian invasion was not charity, but an investment in global security. Zelenskyy told lawmakers in the House of Representatives that he hoped they would continue to support Ukraine on a bipartisan basis — a major point as Republicans will comprise the majority of the House on Jan. 3. “Your money is not charity,” he said, clad in the khaki fatigues that have been his public uniform throughout the 300 days of conflict. “It is an investment in global security and democracy.”
6:00 a.m. U.S. President Joe Biden stands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House during Zelenskyy’s first wartime visit to urge Americans and the world to keep backing Kyiv in 2023, when congressional approval for aid will be harder. “As we head into the new year, it’s important for the American people and for the world to hear directly from you, Mr. President, about Ukraine’s fight and the need to continue to stand together through 2023,” Biden said at a news conference. Zelenskyy, wearing his trademark olive green pants and sweater, said, “The United States will stand up for our shared values, the values of freedom.”
4:15 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at the White House.
2:30 a.m. Myanmar’s military leaders are moving forward with a plan to adopt Russian-built small modular nuclear reactors as the country grapples with an energy cliff caused by dwindling output from natural gas reserves.
The Ministry of Electric Power and Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, have outlined a joint feasibility study on SMRs.
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s commander in chief, visited Russia for a week in July and September, attending the signing of memorandums with Rosatom on both occasions. Read more.
2:15 a.m. Ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington, the Biden administration mobilizes $1.85 billion in new military assistance to Ukraine. The package includes the first transfer of the U.S.-made Patriot air defense system to Ukraine.
“Over the past three hundred days, the Kremlin has tried and failed to wipe Ukraine off the map,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken says in a news release. “Now, Russia is trying to weaponize winter by freezing and starving Ukrainian civilians and forcing families from their homes.”
The additional assistance is meant “to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s ongoing brutal and unprovoked assault,” Blinken says.
Moscow has said the Patriot system — which is equipped with advanced radar and can shoot down cruise missiles, short-range ballistic missiles and aircraft at high altitudes — would be a legitimate target for Russian forces if deployed to Ukraine.
Wednesday, Dec. 21
11:19 p.m. Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, in Beijing, telling him that relevant parties in the Ukraine crisis should exercise restraint, engage in comprehensive dialogue and address common security concerns through political means, state-run media report.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor in February, Beijing has refrained from condemning Moscow and has opposed sanctions levied against it by Western nations. But Xi has expressed concerns about the war and objections to using or threatening to use nuclear weapons in the eastern European country.
Medvedev handed Xi a personal letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, which noted “the unprecedented level of Russian-Chinese political dialogue and practical cooperation,” Russia’s Tass news agency reports.
11:00 p.m. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu proposes raising the age range for mandatory military service to 21 to 30 years, up from 18-27 under the current law.
Men in Russia are required to do a year of military service between those ages. Moscow says these conscripts are not sent to the battle in Ukraine.
Shoigu’s remarks came during a meeting of senior officials at the Defense Ministry. Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Shoigu said the number of Russian military personnel needs to be increased to 1.5 million.
Russia called up more than 300,000 reservists in a mobilization decree issued at the end of September. This week, President Vladimir Putin said that half of the 300,000 had deployed to the war while the rest were in training.
3:00 p.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is on his way to the U.S. for talks on Ukraine’s defense capabilities. The White House also announced his visit to Washington. Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden will meet on Wednesday. Biden is expected to announce nearly $2 billion in new security assistance, including the Patriot missile defense system that Kyiv requested.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement: “The visit will underscore the United States’ steadfast commitment to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes, including through the provision of economic, humanitarian and military assistance.”
9:57 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to travel to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and a visit to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. media reported. This would be Zelenskyy’s first known trip outside his country since Russia invaded in late February. Biden is expected to meet Zelenskyy at the White House. The visit by the Ukrainian leader would coincide with Biden’s intent to send the Kyiv government Patriot missiles to protect it from heavy Russian bombardment, CNN reported.
7:00 a.m. The World Bank said it had approved an additional financing package totaling $610 million to address urgent relief and recovery needs in Ukraine as the war with Russia continues. The aid comes on top of some $18 billion already mobilized for Ukraine by the bank, of which some $15 billion has been disbursed. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to have devastating economic and humanitarian consequences, impacting the health sector, critical energy infrastructure, and transport networks,” World Bank Group President David Malpass said in a statement.
6:30 a.m. Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tweets that Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated him on his recent election win and talked of stronger relations between their countries.
“Brazil is back, seeking dialogue with everyone and committed to the search for a world without hunger and with peace,” Lula writes.
The Kremlin says both sides of the phone call “expressed confidence” that the “strategic partnership will continue to develop successfully in all areas, along with cooperation in the international arena, including within BRICS” — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Putin said this year that he had “good relations” with both Lula and President Jair Bolsonaro, who made an official trip to Moscow days before the war began. Brazil has not joined U.S.-led international sanctions on Russia since the invasion.
3:00 a.m. An explosion along a Russian natural gas pipeline east of Moscow has killed at least three people, various media report, citing local authorities.
The blast on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline in the Chuvashia region occurred during planned maintenance, the reports say. State-owned gas producer Gazprom is quoted as saying that the explosion had not affected export-bound gas.
The pipeline is one of Russia’s most important conduits for gas exports, carrying the fuel from Siberia to near Ukraine for deliver to Western Europe.
Tuesday, Dec. 20
10:59 p.m. Russia intends to give Iran advanced military components in exchange for more than 300 suicide drones, “undermining both Middle East and international security,” British defense minister Ben Wallace tells Parliament as part of a statement on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Earlier on Tuesday, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Iran’s foreign minister that Tehran should immediately halt military support for Russia. Iran acknowledges supplying Moscow with drones but says they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used them to target power stations and civilian infrastructure.
10:03 p.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the eastern city of Bakhmut, home to some of the fiercest fighting in recent weeks as Russia has tried to capture the area. Zelenskyy’s office released video showing him there, dressed in khaki and handing out medals to soldiers to loud applause.
“Ukraine is proud of you. I am proud of you! Thank you for the courage, resilience and strength shown in repelling the enemy attacks,” Zelenskyy said in comments posted on the Telegram messaging app under photographs of him in Bakhmut.
10:30 a.m. President Vladimir Putin says the situation in four areas of Ukraine that Moscow has declared part of Russia is “extremely difficult.”
Late on Monday — Security Services Day, which is widely celebrated in Russia — he told Russian security agencies operating in Ukraine, in comments translated by Reuters: “Yes, it is difficult for you now. The situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions is extremely difficult.” In September, a defiant Putin moved to annex some 15% of Ukraine. Kyiv, meanwhile, renewed calls for more weapons after Russian drones hit energy targets.
1:30 a.m. Canada will seize and pursue the
