Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 336 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 336th day, we take a look at the main developments.

Here is the situation as it stands on Wednesday, January 25, 2023:

Weapons

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, according to media reports, after weeks of mounting pressure on Berlin to give Kyiv the heavier weapons it says it needs to drive back invading Russian forces.
Germany’s decision reportedly came after the United States was said to be poised to start a process that would eventually send dozens of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine’s front lines.
Delivery of tanks by the US to Ukraine would be “another blatant provocation” against Russia, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador, said.
A Swiss parliamentary body proposed waiving a re-export ban that prevents ammunition it manufactures from being re-exported from another country to Ukraine.
The US determined that some Chinese companies are providing non-lethal assistance to Russia for use in the Ukraine war and officials noted their concern to the Chinese government, a source familiar with the matter said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired some senior officials in Ukraine’s biggest political shake-up amid the war, saying he needed to clean up internal problems hurting the country.
Ukraine’s governing party drew up a bill aiming to boost transparency in defence procurement after an army food contract became the focus of high-profile corruption allegations, according to the parliament’s website.
President Vladimir Putin said there were shortages of some medicines in Russia and that prices had gone up, despite the production of more of its own drugs.
Ukraine’s prime minister said his country has enough coal and gas reserves for the remaining months of winter despite Russian attacks on its energy system.