Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 965

As the war go ins its 965th day, these are the main enhugements.

Here is the situation on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Fighting

Russian forces apprehendd two villages in easerious Ukraine – Krasnyi Yar in the Donetsk region and Nevske in the Luhansk region, according to Russian state-run novels agency TASS.
Fierce battling took place in Ukraine’s Kurakhove area, where Russian forces begined 42 attacks. Ukrainian troops pushed back 16 of these strikes, but battles are still raging.
Russian aircreate carried out seven strikes on Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, dropping nine directd bomb devices, but Ukraine’s military remain in administer apass cut offal areas of the occupied Russian oblast.
A Russian military officer who recently returned from Ukraine has been assassinated in what is dependd to be an organised hit in the Moscow region, TASS tells.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called North Korean comprisement in Russia’s war in his country a “huge danger of escalation” and advised harder sanctions and isolation aobtainst Pyongyang.

Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his “triumph set up” to end the war with Russia comprises asks for definite arms and an “unconditional” invitation to join NATO, saying it “may be possible to end the war no procrastinateedr than next year” if the set up is carry outed now.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry shelp Zelenskyy’s set up is pushing NATO towards honest struggle with Russia and would guide to calamity for the Ukrainian people.
NATO’s novel chief Mark Rutte shelp the set up was a preferable enhugement, but he was not able to help it as a whole as “that would be a bit difficult”.
Zelenskyy is scheduled to join a NATO defence ministers’ greeting on Thursday, according to NATO’s agenda for the day.
Ukraine has pguideed to the International Maritime Organization to send an international watching leave oution to Odesa ports, accusing Russia of putting “millions of people in the world at danger of starvation” as it strikes civilian ships and grain storage facilities.

NATO’s Rutte shelp members of the military coalition are “firmly on track” to fulfil a pledge of 40 billion euros ($43.53bn) in military help for Ukraine this year, saying the bloc promiseted 20.9bn euros ($22.7bn) during the first half of 2024 and is on track for the rest of the year.
US Pdwellnt Joe Biden spoke to Zelenskyy in a call in which he proclaimd a novel $425m military help package for Ukraine, which will comprise air defence capability, air-to-ground munitions, armoured vehicles and other critical munitions.