Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 941

Here is the concern connected Monday, September 23, 2024.

Fighting

• The fig of radical injured successful a Russian aerial onslaught connected Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, roseate to 21, including an eight-year-old child. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia utilized glide bombs to people “an mean residential building”. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said radical were sleeping erstwhile the onslaught happened and 2 of the injured were successful captious condition. Kharkiv’s metropolis assembly said 18 buildings were damaged successful the attack.
• In Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region, a Russian aerial onslaught struck homes successful the metropolis of Sloviansk, trapping 1 pistillate nether the rubble and injuring 2 of her neighbours, determination prosecutors said.
• Also successful Donetsk, 2 miners were killed and 1 different idiosyncratic injured aft Russian forces shelled a excavation westbound of the metropolis of Pokrovsk, according to section Governor Vadym Filashkin and Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy.
• At slightest six radical were injured successful Russian attacks connected the confederate Kherson region. Two of them were wounded successful a Russian drone onslaught connected the metropolis of Kherson, determination authorities said.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 80 Shahed drones and 2 missiles astatine Ukraine overnight into Sunday. Air defences changeable down 71 drones portion a further six were mislaid connected determination due to the fact that of physics warfare countermeasures, the connection said.
• Moscow said that a firefighter was killed and 2 of his colleagues injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught successful Russian-occupied Luhansk successful eastbound Ukraine.
• In Russia’s Belgorod portion bordering Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said astatine slightest 12 people, including a colony authoritative and members of a unpaid self-defence force, were wounded successful Ukrainian shelling.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy arrived successful the United States wherever helium volition contiguous proposals for bid which helium has dubbed a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, arsenic good arsenic predetermination candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. He spent his archetypal time successful the state visiting Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, a Pennsylvania mill that produces 155mm artillery shells.
• The International Chess Federation (FIDE), the game’s apical body, rejected a Kyrgyzstan-led connection to readmit Russia and Belarus, but volition see allowing players nether 12 oregon with disablement to instrumentality portion successful tournaments. The 2 countries were expelled from FIDE successful 2022 aft Moscow began its full-scale penetration of Ukraine.

Weapons

• Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said that Kyiv was successful talks with partners successful Europe to unafraid Swedish-made Gripen and European Eurofighter Typhoon jets. Umerov said that commitments were already successful spot for deliveries of US-made F16s and French Mirage aircraft.

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