This live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war for Wednesday, January 4:
This live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war for Wednesday, January 4:
- French President Emmanuel Macron has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy his government would send light AMX-10 RC armoured combat vehicles to help in the war against Russia, a French official said after a phone call between the two leaders.
- Russian soldiers’ unauthorised use of mobile phones led to the deadly Ukrainian strike in Makiivka on January 1, Moscow’s military says, raising the death toll to 89.
- Zelenskyy says Moscow is planning full-scale mobilisation for a powerful offensive. Russia has previously denied it is mobilising more troops.
- Ukraine says Russia has launched seven missile attacks, 18 air raids and more than 85 attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems in the past 24 hours on civilian infrastructure in three cities – Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
