Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 936

Here is the concern connected Wednesday 18 September, 2024.

Fighting

• At slightest 2 radical were killed and 5 injured successful Russian shelling of the municipality of Komyshuvakha successful Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, according to determination politician Ivan Fedorov.

• Russia fired astatine slightest 4 missiles astatine vigor infrastructure successful the northeastern metropolis of Sumy, Regional Governor Volodymyr Artiukh said, disrupting supplies to immoderate 281,000 people. The Ukrainian Air Force said it changeable down 34 of 51 Russian drones that targeted 5 regions of the country.

• Russian state-run RIA quality bureau and pro-Russian warfare bloggers reported that Russian forces had captured the municipality of Ukrainsk successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region. The General Staff of Ukraine’s subject did not corroborate Russia taking Ukrainsk successful its evening update, saying lone that it was 1 of respective areas nether Russian attack. It said 34 assaults had been recorded adjacent the strategically important municipality of Pokrovsk.
• Russia said it had repelled 5 caller attempts by Ukrainian forces to propulsion done its borderline into the Kursk region, bringing the full fig of reported attacks connected the borderline to 26 successful the past six days. Ukraine launched a astonishment incursion into Kursk connected August 6, taking swaths of Russian territory.
• Russia said it destroyed aggregate Ukrainian drones targeting respective occidental Russian regions, including Smolensk adjacent the Belarus borderline and Bryansk. Local governors reported nary harm oregon casualties. Kyiv says it targeted military, vigor and transport infrastructure seen arsenic cardinal to Moscow’s warfare efforts.

Politics and diplomacy

• United States State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Secretary of State Antony Blinken was briefed connected elements of a Ukrainian program to propulsion Russia to extremity the warfare erstwhile helium was successful Kyiv past week.
• Russia’s overseas curate alleged successful a gathering with the visiting caput of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that Ukraine had made “numerous” breaches of planetary humanitarian rights, “including successful the discourse of attraction of prisoners of warfare and civilians”. ICRC main Mirjana Spoljaric said she restated the request for each states “to fulfil their obligations nether planetary humanitarian law”, including visits to prisoners of war.

• The Prosecutor General’s Office successful Ukraine said it was investigating the suspected Russian execution of a Ukrainian worker recovered dormant with a sword successful his assemblage successful the latest transgression probe since Russia began its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022. The latest incidental allegedly took spot successful the eastbound municipality of Novohrodivka.

• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his state was committed to deeper ties with Russia to antagonistic Western sanctions, authorities media reported, arsenic helium met Russia’s apical information authoritative Sergei Shoigu. The US is acrophobic that Iran is supplying missiles to Moscow for usage successful Ukraine. Tehran has denied sending ballistic missiles to Russia.

• Ukraine’s authoritative wide said that a Ukrainian defence manufacture idiosyncratic who collected delicate subject accusation and passed it connected to Russia was jailed for 15 years. Prosecutors did not sanction the antheral who allegedly passed delicate details astir the results of artillery and rocket attacks connected Kyiv and the surrounding country to an intermediary of the Russian Defence Ministry.
• Russia’s FSB information work said it changeable dormant an alleged Ukrainian cause who attempted to works explosives nether the car of a elder defence manufacture authoritative successful Ukraine’s Sverdlovsk region. The FSB did not sanction the man.
• Maria Ponomarenko, a 46-year-old writer from Siberia serving a six-year situation condemnation for speaking retired against the warfare successful Ukraine, has gone connected hunger strike, according to RusNews, the work she worked for.
• Yuri Kokhovets, a 38-year-old Russian antheral convicted of criticising the Ukraine struggle during a thoroughfare interrogation successful July 2022, had his condemnation toughened aft prosecutors appealed. He volition present service 5 years successful situation alternatively than 5 years of hard labour, authorities media reported.
• Russia lashed retired astatine Facebook and Instagram proprietor Meta aft the institution banned RT and different Russian authorities media from its platforms. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the determination was “unacceptable” and that Meta had discredited itself.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies