Here are the key developments on the 1,044th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Friday, January 3: Fighting The Ukrainian military said it carried out a high-precision strike on a Russian command post in Maryino, in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces hold chunks of territory after a major cross-border incursion. Russia’s military said air defence units had downed four Ukrainian missiles in...

Khijou comes back into the living room with her laptop. “Here he is,” she says. The picture of her son, Samir, is grim. In it, he’s still alive but his limbs are skeletal. He is starving from al-Assad’s siege over Moadhamiyet al-Sham in 2013. Samir’s ribs jut out from his skin, his bony elbow bent painfully. Three days later, Syrian officers allegedly kidnapped him after Khijou sent him...