Because the struggle enters its 954th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
Preventing
- Russian air assaults on Ukraine stored the jap half of the nation below air raid alert for greater than 5 hours, Ukraine’s army stated early on Sunday.
- Ukraine’s army stated on Telegram its air defence models repelled Russia’s air assault on capital Kyiv on Sunday morning.
- Prosecutors in Ukraine’s Donetsk region say two civilians, a 65-year-old girl and an 86-year-old man, had been killed within the metropolis of Toretsk and the village of Velyka Novosilka. It was not instantly clear how the 2 had been killed.
- In Zaporizhia area, Governor Ivan Fyodorov stated two males aged 44 and 46 had been killed by Russian shelling within the village of Mala Tokmachka.
- Prosecutors in Kharkiv area stated a 49-year-old man died when a Russian drone hit the automotive he was driving.
- The Russian-installed authorities within the Ukrainian metropolis of Horlivka and within the Zaporizhia region stated a number of civilians had been wounded by Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes.
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Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated its forces took management of Zhelanne Druhe village within the Donetsk area. Moscow’s declare couldn’t be independently confirmed. The village is positioned near Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian military that’s threatened by advancing Russian troops.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine will current its “victory plan” to its allies in Germany subsequent weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, establishing a check of assist for Kyiv’s imaginative and prescient of ending the struggle with Russia. He’ll meet US President Joe Biden and different leaders at a daily assembly of key NATO and different allies on the US Ramstein Air Base on October 12.
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Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s envoy to the US and a Kremlin hardliner, returned to Moscow on the finish of his time period, which was a time of essentially the most hostile relations between the 2 nations in a long time. The Siberia-born profession diplomat had been heading the Russian mission in Washington, DC since 2017.
- Ukrainian prosecutors introduced that they had been investigating allegations that Russian forces executed 4 Ukrainian prisoners of war and stated a potential suspect for the killings was in custody. The servicemen are alleged to have been killed on the orders of Russian army command over the summer time in Vovchansk.
- Russian prosecutors requested for a seven-year sentence within the trial of American man Stephen Hubbard, 72, who’s accused of combating as a mercenary in Ukraine in opposition to Russia, Russian information businesses reported. Prosecutors requested the court docket to take into consideration Hubbard’s age, including that he has admitted guilt. The offence is often punishable for a time period of seven to fifteen years.