The Russo-Ukrainian War at a Glance: What We Know on Day 310 of the Invasion | Ukraine

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One person has been killed in Russian bombing of the Ukrainian town of Semenivka in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine, according to reports. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of the office of the President of Ukraine, said on Telegram that Semenivka was left without electricity after three strikes. “So far, only one known fatality,” he wrote on Telegram.

Dmytro Chivitsky, the governor of the Sumy region, located in northeastern Ukraine on the border with Russia, sent to Telegram to say that three settlements in the region had come under fire from Russia. Today, two air alerts have been sounded in the Mykolaiv region, so far no attack has been carried out.

In Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region, reported that an industrial enterprise was bombed across the border in Ukraine. In addition, the Russian Information Agency quoted the Russian-imposed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvojev, as saying that air defense systems were used this morning. “All services are functioning normally. Our army has worked well as always,” he said, urging residents in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, to remain calm. He gave no further details of the incident.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported Friday morning that Russia launched 16 Kamikaze drones overnight and that all of them were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses. It added that the drones were sent from the southeast and north. Earlier, the Kyiv City Military Administration informed residents that five Shahed drones had entered Kyiv airspace, and the wreckage of one of them had hit an administrative building in Holosev.

The US Ambassador to Kyiv, Bridget A. Brink, released a New Year’s video message to the people of Ukraine, pledging that US support for the country is “unwavering”.

European gas prices have fallen to a level last seen before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, after warm weather across the continent eased concerns about shortages.

The Belarusian state news agency Belta reported that a Ukrainian S-300 missile landed on the territory of Belarus on Thursday during one of the largest Russian missile attacks on Ukraine since the start of the war.

The Ukrainian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Minsk to receive a formal protest after a foreign ministry spokesperson said the missile’s fall on Belarusian soil was “extremely dangerous”.

Russia launched a wave of missile attacks across Ukraine on Thursday morning, with the Ukrainian Air Force claiming to have shot down 54 of the 69 Russian cruise missiles launched at Ukraine from Russia’s Rostov, Caspian and Black Seas.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, acknowledged that most regions were experiencing power outages after the attacks, but said the damage would have been worse without “heroic” air defence. In a video address Thursday night, Zelensky said air commands in central, southern, eastern and western Ukraine had repelled 54 Russian missiles and 11 drones during one of Russia’s largest air strikes since the war began in February.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated that three people are known to have been injured in the capital in Thursday’s attacks, including a 14-year-old girl. Two people were rescued from a private house hit by debris. Klitschko said that 40% of the capital’s consumers were without electricity after the missile attack.

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, pledged that Rome would continue to aid the war effort in Kyiv and that she would visit before the end of February.

Britain’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, has said the UK will commit £2.3 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2023.

Kazakhstan was preparing to deport a Russian security officer who fled his country because he objected to the invasion of Ukraine and hoped to find refuge in the West, his wife said Thursday. As an officer of the Federal Protective Service (FSO), which is assigned to protect the Russian president, Major Mikhail Zhilin, 36, was banned from leaving Russia and illegally crossed into Kazakhstan in September when it became clear he could be sent to Ukraine.

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