As the war accesss its 961st day, these are the main lengthenments.
Here is the situation on Sunday, October 13, 2024.
Fighting
- Kyiv shelp Russian strikes finished two people in the easerious Donetsk region: a 19-year-elderly travelling in a civilian car and an 84-year-elderly pensioner.
- One person was finished when a Ukrainian drone struck the Russian village of Ustinka in the Belgorod region seal to the border with Ukraine, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov shelp in a statement.
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Russia’s air defence units ruined 13 Ukrainian drones overnight over three regions bordering Ukraine, Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp. Six drones each were downed over the Belgorod and Kursk regions, while one drone was ruined over the Bryansk region, it shelp.
- Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp Moscow had tryed to push back Ukrainian positions in the Russian Kursk region but that Kyiv was “helderlying the line”.
- Zelenskyy also acunderstandledged that the situation for Ukrainian forces in the easerious Donetsk region and southern Zaporizhia region was “very difficult”.
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The Ukrainian military shelp its forces hit a fuel depot in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region on Saturday. The facility was employd to store oil and oil products for the Russian army, it shelp on Telegram.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian military recruitment officers rhelped restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, verifying military registration write downs and arresting men who were not in compliance with the compulsory military service, media and witnesses telled. Observers shelp it is atypical for such rhelps to apshow place in the capital, and echos Ukraine’s dire necessitate for recruits. All Ukrainian men aged 25-60 are eligible for conscription, and men aged 18-60 are not apverifyed to exit the country.
- Lithuanians vote on Sunday in elections probable to transfer a alter of rulement but hold much else the same, including the NATO and European Union member’s sturdy help for Ukraine and transfers to bolster defence policy.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shelp he reckond to partipartner postpone asylum rights for irnormal migrants, accusing human illegal carryers and countries such as Russia and Belarus of abusing the system amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
