Because the conflict enters its 956th day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the scenario on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
Preventing
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Not less than one individual was killed and 6 injured in Russian shelling within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Sloviansk. Vadym Filashkin, the governor of the Donetsk area, stated six multistorey residence blocks had been among the many buildings broken and that two youngsters had been among the many injured.
- One Ukrainian port employee was killed and 5 different folks injured, together with overseas nationals, after a Russian missile struck a Palau-flagged ship in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa, within the second such assault in as many days. Ukrainian Minister for International Affairs Andrii Sybiha condemned the assaults on the 2 ships. Ukraine’s Ministry for Restoration stated the ship attacked on Sunday was the Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged Paresa, which had a cargo of 6,000 tonnes of corn.
- Russia’s Ministry of Protection claimed its forces captured the village of Hrodivka, near the strategically necessary metropolis of Pokrovsk in japanese Ukraine.
- Ukraine stated its forces struck an oil terminal on the Crimean Peninsula, which was seized and illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. Russian-installed authorities in Crimea stated there had been a hearth at an oil depot within the Black Sea port city of Feodosia and there have been no casualties.
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The GRU, Ukraine’s navy spy company, stated it “severely broken” the Alexander Obukhov, an Alexandrit-class Russian minesweeping vessel, in Russia’s Kaliningrad area in a sabotage operation. There was no instant remark from Russia.
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Ukraine stated a Russian hypersonic missile struck the “space” of Ukraine’s main Starokostiantyniv airbase on Monday morning. The air power didn’t say whether or not the assault brought about any injury. Native governor, Serhii Tyurin, stated there have been no civilian casualties or injury to vital infrastructure.
- Two Russian Kinzhal missiles had been additionally shot down within the Kyiv area, the Ukrainian air power stated. Particles got here down in three districts of the capital, however no main injury or casualties had been reported.
- Ukrainian air defences shot down 32 Russian drones and an extra 37 had been misplaced on navy radars, suggesting that they had been disabled by digital warfare techniques, the air power stated.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the conflict had entered “an important part” and that Ukraine wanted to “put strain on Russia in the way in which that’s essential for Russia to grasp that the conflict will acquire them nothing”. Talking in a video assertion, Zelenskyy added: “Solely by way of power can we deliver peace nearer”.
- The USA criticised Russia for withholding consular entry for detained US citizen Stephen Hubbard after a courtroom jailed the 72-year-old for six years and 10 months. Russia detained Hubbard in April 2022 and accused of being a “mercenary” for Ukraine.
- A courtroom in Russia’s Kursk area ordered the arrest in absentia of two Italian journalists for reporting from the Ukrainian-occupied a part of Kursk. The courtroom demanded Simone Traini and Stefania Battistini, journalists from Italy’s RAI public broadcaster, be extradited for “illegally crossing” the border from Ukraine.
- A Ukrainian authorities supply advised the Reuters information company that Ukrainian hackers had been behind a large-scale cyberattack on Russian state media firm VGTRK on Monday.
