Because the struggle enters its 941st day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Monday, September 23, 2024.
Combating
- The variety of individuals injured in a Russian air assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest metropolis, rose to 21, together with an eight-year-old little one. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russia used glide bombs to focus on “an unusual residential constructing”. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated individuals had been sleeping when the assault occurred and two of the injured had been in vital situation. Kharkiv’s metropolis council stated 18 buildings had been broken within the assault.
- In Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area, a Russian air assault struck properties within the metropolis of Sloviansk, trapping one lady underneath the rubble and injuring two of her neighbours, regional prosecutors stated.
- Additionally in Donetsk, two miners had been killed and one different individual injured after Russian forces shelled a mine west of town of Pokrovsk, in line with native Governor Vadym Filashkin and Ukraine’s Ministry of Power.
- At the least six individuals had been injured in Russian assaults on the southern Kherson area. Two of them had been damage in a Russian drone assault on town of Kherson, regional authorities stated.
- The Ukrainian Air Power stated Russia launched 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine in a single day into Sunday. Air defences shot down 71 drones whereas an additional six had been misplaced on location due to digital warfare countermeasures, the assertion stated.
- Moscow stated {that a} firefighter was killed and two of his colleagues injured in a Ukrainian drone assault in Russian-occupied Luhansk in jap Ukraine.
- In Russia’s Belgorod area bordering Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated at the very least 12 individuals, together with a village official and members of a volunteer self-defence pressure, had been damage in Ukrainian shelling.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy arrived in the USA the place he’ll current proposals for peace which he has dubbed a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, in addition to election candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. He spent his first day within the nation visiting Scranton Military Ammunition Plant, a Pennsylvania manufacturing facility that produces 155mm artillery shells.
- The Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE), the sport’s prime physique, rejected a Kyrgyzstan-led proposal to readmit Russia and Belarus, however will take into account permitting gamers underneath 12 or with incapacity to participate in tournaments. The 2 nations had been expelled from FIDE in 2022 after Moscow started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Weapons
- Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov stated that Kyiv was in talks with companions in Europe to safe Swedish-made Gripen and European Eurofighter Hurricane jets. Umerov stated that commitments had been already in place for deliveries of US-made F16s and French Mirage plane.