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What happened in Ukraine's orbit on 10 January 2020?
Summary
A small tremor in Zakarpattia sat alongside the aftermath of a plane crash in Iran and the opening of a new gas route.
What was happening around Ukraine on 10 January 2020? The day itself brought a minor seismic event in the west of the country, while two developments from 8 January shaped the wider regional picture.
On 10 January 2020 an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale struck near Vynohradiv in Zakarpattia region. No destruction or deaths were reported.
Two events two days earlier
On 8 January 2020 a Ukraine International Airlines (MAU) aircraft crashed near Tehran, Iran. All 176 people on board died. For Ukraine, the loss of a national carrier's aircraft and its passengers and crew made this the heaviest news of the week.
The same day, the heads of state of Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria formally inaugurated the TurkStream gas pipelines. The ceremony involved four countries from Ukraine's wider neighbourhood.
Reading the day
The three items were unrelated in cause and scale. The tremor near Vynohradiv was a local event with no reported damage. The crash near Tehran was a mass-casualty tragedy touching Ukraine directly. The TurkStream inauguration marked the formal launch of new gas infrastructure linking several states in the region.
Taken together, they show how a quiet day inside Ukraine could coincide with major events outside its borders that still carried weight for the country.
