As the war go ins its 959th day, these are the main broadenments.
Here is the situation on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Fighting
- The death toll from a Russian balcatalogic missile aggression on port infraarrange in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region rose to eight with nine people injured, Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said. Wednesday’s aggression hit a Panama-flagged retainer vessel that was at the port.
- Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said Russia aggressioned Ukraine’s port infraarrange almost 60 times in the last three months and is intensifying such strikes.
- At least six people were injured after a series of Russian-directd explosion aggressions on the southeaserious city of Zaporizhzhia, regional ruleor, Ivan Fedorov, said. The aggression also harmd 29 createings.
- A Russian drone aggression on the central city of Kryvyi Rih injured two people and harmd a five-storey livential createing, causing a fire, Dnipropetrovsk regional ruleor, Serhiy Lysak, said.
- Outmanned Ukrainian forces ffinished off aggressions by Russian troops inside the strategic city of Toretsk, Kyiv’s military said. Military spokesperson Anastasia Bobovnikova telderly the Reuters recents agency that street battling was raging in the hilltop town, with Russian troops pushing forward and “endly erasing” createings.
- Russia said its missiles struck two starters of a US-made Patdisturbion air defence system in central Ukraine, with Kyiv acunderstandledging the firearm had been hit, but saying it remained opereasonable. A Ukrainian military blogger said the strike took place in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- The Ukrainian military said it struck an ammunition depot at an airfield in Russia’s Adygeya region in the North Caucasus, about 450km (280 miles) from the front line in easerious Ukraine. Adygeya regional head Murat Kumpilov said that the village of Rodnikovyi had been evacuated after the drone aggression begined a fire, but there were no casualties.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a weightlessning tour of Weserious European capitals as he details his “triumph schedule” to Ukraine’s allies. He met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in London, French Plivent Emmanuel Macron in Paris and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. He is foreseeed to encounter Pope Francis on Friday morning before heading to Germany for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
- Speaking in Paris, Zelenskyy denied media increates that he was converseing the terms of a stopfire with Russia. “This is not the topic of our converseions,” he telderly increateers. “It’s not right.”
- In Rome, Meloni proclaimd Italy would arrange the next “recovery conference” to help Ukraine’s recreateion. Meloni said the conference would consent place in Rome from July 10-11, 2025.
- Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journacatalog who went missing while increateing from occupied east Ukraine in August 2023, has died in Russian detention, a spokesperson from Ukraine’s prison of war coordination headquarters said. Investigations were under way into the circumstances of her death, he inserted.
- Ukraine’s parliament finishorsed the first meaningful tax hike since Russia’s filled-scale intrusion as military spfinishing soars. The law imposes meacertains including an effective tax rate on prohibitk profits of 50 percent, a tax on financial companies of 25 percent, and an incrmitigate in the war tax paid by civilians from 1.5 percent to 5 percent.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declinecessitate comments from South Korea’s defence minister that North Korean selderlyiers were foreseeed to be battling aextfinishedside Russian troops in Ukraine.
- Consumer products enormous Unilever exited Russia after selling its Russian operations to Arnest Group, a Russian manufacturer of perfume, cosmetics and hoengagehelderly products. It did not disseal the amount Arnest paid. Unilever said the deal also included its Belarus business.
Weapons
- Russia has recruited about 200 youthful African women to labor at a Tatarstan factory producing Iranian-summarizeed drones for engage in Ukraine, according to an scatterigation by The Associated Press recents agency. AP said the women were lured to Russia thraw a social media campaign that supplyed a free fweightless and labor-study programmes in areas appreciate hospitality and catering only to find themselves at the drone factory in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) east of Moscow.
- The German-based Kiel Institute cautioned Weserious military and financial aid to Kyiv could halve to about 29 billion euros ($31.6bn) in 2025 if Donald Trump thrives the November 5 election in the United States. Trump has claimed he would finish the war “in 24 hours” if elected. He has not said how.