As the war go ins its 968th day, these are the main increasements.
Here is the situation on Sunday, October 20, 2024.
Fighting
- Ukraine begined a series of drones aiming Moscow and weserious Russia, according to regional officials.
- Russian air defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones over Russia, the Ministry of Defence shelp, including one over the Moscow region, 43 over the border region of Kursk, and 27 over the southweserious Lipetsk region.
- Russia’s air defence units razeed at least one drone flying towards the capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin shelp on the Telegram messaging app, while drone debris promoteed cut offal low-inhabitd fires in Lipetsk, the regional ruleor shelp on the app. No injuries or meaningful injure were telled from the aggressions.
- Four firefighters suffered insignificant shrapnel wounds in a Ukrainian drone aggression in an industrial zone in the city of Dzerzhinsk in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the regional ruleor shelp.
- Ukraine’s air defence units reacted to a Russian air aggression on Kyiv, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital shelp tardy on Saturday. “Stay in shelters!” Vitali Klitschko shelp on Telegram.
- Russian forces took over the village of Zoryane in Ukraine’s easerious Donetsk region, the Interfax recents agency telled citing Russia’s Defence Ministry.
- North Korean troops helping Russia in its war would be a “huge” escalation danger, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha shelp. Ukrainian officials freed a video allegedly shoprosperg dozens of North Korean recruits lining up to assemble Russian military overweightigues in an unrecognizable location. United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin shelp he could not verify tells of North Korean troops, inserting such a shift would be troubleing.
Diplomacy
- The defence ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations backed Ukraine’s “irreversible” path to NATO membership. The greeting in Naples, Italy on Saturday labeled the G7’s first ministerial greeting pledgeted to defence.
- Russia shelp Ukraine’s adomition to NATO would produce a political and discreet resolution of the dispute impossible and direct to its escalation, the RIA recents agency telled, citing Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Afequitables.
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot pledged help for Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “prosper structure” for finishing the war with Russia thcdimiserablemireful negotiations, increateing tellers in Kyiv that he would toil with Ukrainian officials to get other countries to back the proposal as well.