Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 960

Here is the concern connected Saturday, October 12, 2024.

Fighting

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces had downed 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 17 successful the southeastern Krasnodar region, 16 implicit the Azov Sea and 12 implicit the borderline portion of Lursk. There were nary contiguous reports connected casualties.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired 28 drones astatine Ukraine, of which 24 were destroyed successful the regions of Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Mikolayev and Kherson.
• The Ukrainian main of unit said its forces had struck a substance depot overnight successful the eastbound Russian-occupied Luhansk region, mounting it connected fire. It did not springiness immoderate details and Moscow did not corroborate the attack.
• Russia has said that its forces captured the front-line villages of Zhelanne Druge and Ostrivske successful eastbound Ukraine, the latest successful a drawstring of territorial gains. Ostrivske lies connected the eastbound banks of the Kurakhove reservoir successful an country wherever Russia is concentrating its violative activity, according to the Ukrainian military.
• Russian strikes overnight connected the confederate Ukrainian portion of Odesa killed 4 people, including a teenage girl, and wounded 10 more, according to determination politician Oleg Kiper. He said a two-storey gathering had been destroyed successful the onslaught and that the victims included a 43-year-old woman, a 22-year-old antheral and a 16-year-old girl. Another pistillate died successful hospital.
• Authorities successful the eastbound Donetsk portion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin claims is portion of Russia, said 1 idiosyncratic had been killed successful the Pokrovsk district, wherever Russian forces are advancing.
• One idiosyncratic was killed and 7 wounded successful Russian strikes connected the eastbound portion of Kharkiv implicit the past 24 hours, Ukrainian constabulary said.
• A large lipid terminal connected the southbound seashore of the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula that Ukrainian forces struck remains connected occurrence days aft the onslaught successful the municipality of Feodosia, section Russian-installed authorities said.

Politics and diplomacy

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced 1.4 cardinal euros ($1.53bn) successful further subject assistance for Ukraine by the extremity of 2024 saying it was a awesome to Russia that the West would not halt supporting Kyiv. The assistance volition beryllium fixed jointly with Belgium, Denmark and Norway and includes much aerial defence, tanks, combat drones and artillery.

• During their gathering successful the German capital, Berlin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced anticipation that the warfare with Russia volition extremity adjacent year.
• The Ukrainian person besides met Pope Francis astatine the Vatican, during a whirlwind circuit of European capitals, and asked for assistance successful securing the merchandise of Ukrainians held captive by Russia. Zelenskyy said helium had invited the Vatican to instrumentality portion successful a league connected the prisoners of war, owed to beryllium held successful Canada aboriginal this month.

• The European Union is expected to enforce sanctions connected 14 individuals and organisations linked to Iranian transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia, 2 European diplomats and a high-ranking EU authoritative said. Diplomats had antecedently said the EU was looking astatine measures that would curb the operations of nationalist hose Iran Air.

• The US Treasury Department has announced that Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo volition sojourn London from October 13 to 15 for discussions with elder British officials connected further sanctioning Russia, and harnessing frozen Russian assets.

Courts

• The Sverdlovsk determination tribunal successful the Urals portion of Russia has handed down a treason condemnation to a pistillate who worked for a Russian vessel mill for selling subject accusation to Ukraine. Viktoria Mukhametova was sentenced to 12 and a fractional years successful a penal colony. Her husband, Danil Mukhametov, is being tried separately connected akin charges.
• A subject tribunal successful Russia has sentenced 2 men successful a portion adjacent Moscow to 16 years each for mounting occurrence to operating instrumentality connected the broadside of railway tracks allegedly connected the orders of Ukrainian information services. The Ria Novosti quality bureau reported that the duo were recovered blameworthy of “terrorism”.

• A Russian tribunal successful Kursk has ordered the apprehension successful absentia and extradition of CNN writer Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from Ukrainian-held territory successful Russia’s Kursk region. Moscow has launched respective transgression proceedings against Western journalists who had produced reports from Kursk aft Ukraine’s astonishment August incursion.
• Ukrainian prosecutors said connected Friday they would analyse the death of Ukrainian writer Victoria Roshchyna successful Russian detention arsenic a warfare crime. Roshchyna disappeared successful August past twelvemonth aft travelling to Russian-held eastbound Ukraine connected a reporting trip. Reporters Without Borders said Roshchyna had died connected September 19, citing a missive to her household from Russia.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies