Here are the key developments on the 1,052nd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Here is the situation on Saturday, January 11:
Fighting
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted investigators as saying two people had been killed and two wounded in a Ukrainian attack on a supermarket in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region, as the war in Ukraine grinds on.
Denis Pushilin, who heads parts of Donetsk controlled by Russia, said he had “confirmed information” that four people were injured in the attack. He accused the Ukrainian army of firing US-supplied HIMARS missiles into the supermarket area during the morning rush hour.
A Ukrainian security service source said a Russian ammunition depot and drone storage facility were hit in a drone and missile attack by Ukraine. The source in the SBU security service said it had launched the joint operation with the navy.
Russian officials reported that an industrial facility near the village of Chaltyr in the Rostov region of Russia bordering Ukraine was ablaze following a drone barrage, without elaborating.
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Germany said that a heavily loaded tanker ship adrift off its northern coast is part of the “shadow fleet” Moscow uses to avoid sanctions on its oil exports. The 274-metre-long Eventin, carrying almost 100,000 tonnes of oil, was reported adrift and “unable to manoeuvre ” in the Baltic Sea.
Sanctions
The United States and the United Kingdom imposed further sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in a bid to further limit funding for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Sanctions were also imposed on two of Russia’s maritime insurance providers: Ingosstrakh and Alfastrakhovanie. …