Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 964

Here is the concern connected Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Fighting

• Russia launched a drone onslaught connected Kyiv, according to officials successful the Ukrainian capital. There was nary accusation instantly disposable astir casualties oregon damage.
• Ukraine launched a bid of drone attacks connected Russia’s confederate borderline portion of Belgorod, injuring astatine slightest 8 radical and damaging cars and property, determination Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
• Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of Kupiansk and Borova successful the northeastern Kharkiv portion amid the beforehand of Russian forces. Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said the evacuation bid was mandatory.
• The White House said it was “concerned” by claims made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that North Korean soldiers were warring for Russia successful Ukraine. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation arsenic “fake news”.

Politics and diplomacy

• European Council President Charles Michel said Zelenskyy has been invited to be a acme of European Union leaders successful Brussels connected Thursday to “take banal of the latest developments of Russia’s warfare against Ukraine and contiguous his triumph plan”.
• Four-fifths of Ukrainians enactment a caller instrumentality banning Russia-linked spiritual groups accused of being a instrumentality of Moscow, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
• A Russian antheral who was released from a penal colony aft being jailed implicit an antiwar representation drawn by his girl told a Russian quality rights radical that helium had endured unspeakable conditions, including 2 months successful an isolation compartment helium described arsenic a “torture chamber”.

Economy

• Russian earthy state deliveries to the EU person been “significantly higher” than semipermanent contracts should spot delivered, contempt the bloc’s efforts to trim its dependency connected fossil fuels from the country, the bloc’s Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson told a quality conference.
• Russian vigor elephantine Gazprom said it would merchantability 14 hotels and resorts aft suffering an yearly nonaccomplishment of astir $7bn, its archetypal specified nonaccomplishment successful astir a quarter-century.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies