This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Thursday, January 19.
- Russia warns the West against supplying Ukraine with longer-range weaponry, saying such a move would escalate the war.
- Moscow’s call comes as Kyiv’s Western allies prepare for a major meeting on military aid in Germany on Friday.
- Ukraine investigates Wednesday’s helicopter crash that killed the country’s interior minister and 13 other people.
- Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev says the country’s defeat in Ukraine may trigger a “nuclear war”.
