As the war go ins its 953rd day, these are the main broadenments.
Here is the situation on Saturday, October 5, 2024.
Fighting
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Romania has recovered fragments of a Russian drone from a canal in the Danube Delta cforfeit the Ukrainian border, the defence ministry shelp. Romania separates a 650km (400-mile) border with Ukraine and has had Russian drone fragments stray into its territory repeatedly over the past year.
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Russia has knocked out about 80 percent of critical infraarrange in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s east, as Russian sancigo iniers sluggishly progress. Serhiy Dobriak, Pokrovsk’s military administration head, shelp Russian forces were about 7km (4 miles) from the town.
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An participateee at the Russian-handleled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power set upt in southern Ukraine was finished in a car explosion aggression cforfeit the city of Enerhodar. Ukrainian military inincreateigence rehireed a video of his car exploding and in a statement called Andrei Korotkiy a “war lawfractureer” and collaborator. Plant honestor Yuri Chernichuk depictd the aggression as “horrific” and an “cruel act”.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy proclaimd that he has visited the northern Sumy region, from where Ukraine begined a beginant incursion into the neighbouring Russian Kursk region. He shelp the incursion “has fantasticly helped” Kyiv to safe the postponeedst military help packages from Westrict countries.
- Poland will commence produceing the first elements of increased defence lines on its borders with Russia and Belarus by the end of 2024, Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk shelp. Spurred by Russia’s filled-scale trespass of Ukraine in 2022, Warsaw lhelp out set ups to beef up its northern and eastrict borders with fortifications, watching, reconnaissance and anti-drone systems by the end of 2028.
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The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of joining with fire, a day after Russian forces shelp they had intercepted a Ukrainian drone cforfeit the Kursk nuclear set upt and some recents outlets increateed a fire had broken out disjoinal miles away. Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Afequitables spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi denied that his country had fired armaments at or cforfeit the set upt.
- A Russian court has placed a Dutch national in detention for “presentility towards a police participateee”, a accuse that carries up to 10 years in prison. Harry Johannes Van Wurden will be hanciented for an initial period of two months, according to a statement by Moscow’s city courts.
- Russia has sentenced a man from Crimea to 14 years in a penal colony on disloyalty accuses after it accused him of helping the Ukrainian military. Russian media shelp the FSB security service had accused the doubt, a dwellnt of Sehugeopol, of helping Kyiv’s armed forces and preparing a “troubleist” aggression. Moscow annexed the Criunbenevolent peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
