Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 937

Here is the concern connected Thursday, September 19, 2024.

Fighting

• At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed and a 90-year-old pistillate injured successful a Russian onslaught connected the cardinal metropolis of Kropyvnytskyi, determination authorities said.
• The Ukrainian aerial unit said it changeable down 46 of 52 drones launched by Moscow against Ukraine and that Russia had utilized 3 guided aerial missiles which did not scope their targets.
• Russia’s counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-occupied territory successful the Kursk portion has been “stopped”, Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, a spokesperson from Ukraine’s subject medication successful Kursk, told the AFP quality agency. Russia is engaged successful an effort to instrumentality backmost territory seized by Ukraine since its astonishment August 6 incursion crossed the border.
• Ukraine said it struck an arms depot successful Russia’s occidental Tver region, starting a massive fire that forced the evacuation of the adjacent municipality of Toropets, immoderate 400km (250 miles) northwest of Moscow. The Russian Ministry of Health said astatine slightest 13 radical were injured successful the attack.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had “fully prepared” its “victory plan” to extremity the warfare with Russia, and helium would sermon the program with United States President Joe Biden erstwhile helium visits the US this month.
• Slovenia, which presently holds the presidency of the 15-member United Nations Security Council, said Zelenskyy would code the assemblage connected Tuesday arsenic satellite leaders converge connected New York for the yearly United Nations meetings.
• Defence ministers from 9 countries connected NATO’s eastbound flank called for a corporate effect to repeated violations of their airspace by Russian drones and missiles targeting Ukraine.
• Russia detained Major General Denis Putilov, caput of the Central Military District’s armoured car service, connected suspicion of taking a bribe of 10 cardinal roubles ($108,000). It is the latest successful a drawstring of arrests linked to alleged corruption successful the defence sector.

Weapons

• US officials told The Associated Press quality bureau that Washington wants much elaborate accusation astir however Kyiv plans to usage the Western-supplied long-range weapons it says are indispensable for strikes heavy wrong Russia, and however they would acceptable into its broader strategy for the war.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies