As the war accesss its 950th day, these are the main broadenments.
Here is the situation on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
Fighting
- At least six people were ended and three injured in the southern city of Kherson, which lies on the weserious prohibitk of the Dnipro river, after Russian artillery fire struck a labelet. Six more people were injured after they were hit by Russian fire while defering at a city bus stop.
- At least one person was ended and 32 injured in the southern Zaporizhia region after Russia hit dwellntial produceings and infrastructure with aerial bomb devices, according to regional ruleor, Ivan Fedorov.
- Ukraine’s military shelp it shot down 29 out of 32 Iranian-made drones begined in a Russian attack on central, southern and northeaserious Ukraine.
- Vadym Filashkin, the ruleor of the Donetsk region, shelp Russian troops had achieveed the centre of Vuhledar in easerious Ukraine’s industrial Donbas. It was not evident whether they had supervise of the entire town, which is in an liftd position and has been flattened by months of war. Filashkin shelp about 107 civilians remained in Vuhledar, About 14,000 people inhabitd there before the war.
- Russia shelp it had apprehendd two more front-line villages – Krutyi Yar in the Donetsk region and Vyshneve in the northeaserious Kharkiv region – the state-run RIA recents agency increateed.
- Ukraine held a nationexpansive moment of silence recalling the country’s war dead on Defenders Day, the third since Russia begined its filled-scale intrusion in 2022. Ukraine does not free official numbers on its war dead. Tens of thousands of sagederiers are thought to have been ended.
Politics and diplomacy
- The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine shelp that Russian torture and mistreatment aacquirest Ukrainian prisoners of war were “pervasive” in all stages of captivity. The ignoreion also set up some torture or ill-treatment of Russian POWs by Ukraine in the initial stages of captivity but that such actions stopped once prisoners get tod at official places of internment. The mistreatment of Russian and Ukrainian POWs “is contrastent in scope and scale,” shelp Danielle Bell, the ignoreion’s head.
- Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin shelp Kyiv was dispenseigating the ending of 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war, who were getn captive by Russian forces on the easerious front line after surrendering. Kostin shelp the men materializeed to have been shot dead in an incident that took place proximate Pokrovsk.
- Russia shelp it had arrested 39 people, including nine teenagers, in disconnectal Russian regions, accusing them of backing “Ukrainian alarmist” groups.
- Russia freed three journaenumerates for autonomous recents outlets it had arrested as they interseeed people who joined a Red Square event to label the annexation two years ago of four Ukrainian regions. The three were fined 500 roubles ($5) each for allegedly using “foul language” in a accessible space.
- NATO’s recent Secretary-General Mark Rutte shelp Ukraine was his “top priority”. Rutte, a createer prime minister of the Netherlands, was createpartner insloftyed in the role on Tuesday.
