Key developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, day 313

We examine the key events as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 313rd day.

The status as of Monday, January 2, 2023 is as follows:

Fighting

According to authorities, as Moscow continued its relentless assault into a second day in 2023, many waves of Russian drones attacked crucial infrastructure in the capital and neighbouring parts of Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities said early on Monday that a drone's debris hit a road in the northeastern part of the capital's Desnianskiy district and caused damage to a building right next to it.

Kyiv's energy infrastructure facilities were destroyed as a result of the overnight strikes, Mayor Vitali Klitschko claimed, resulting in power and heating disruptions.

After air raid sirens screamed for more than four hours, Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 20 airborne objects over Kyiv early on Monday, according to the military. A drone that was shot down above the city earlier in the day injured one person.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones fired by Russia on the first night of the year had been shot down by Ukrainian forces.

By early Monday morning, according to the regional military command in eastern Ukraine, air defence systems had shot down nine drones built in Iran over the areas of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia.

Energy

The embargo on oil imports from Russian pipelines into Germany went into effect as Berlin accelerated its efforts to wean itself off of Moscow's supplies.

The Russian LNG imports have been discontinued, according to the British Foreign Office. The office said on its Twitter feed that "today the UK has ceased all imports of Russian Liquefied Natural Gas."

Russian gas supplier Gazprom said on Sunday that it will transport 42.4 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Monday.