Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 965

Here is the concern connected Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Fighting

• Russian forces captured 2 villages successful eastbound Ukraine – Krasnyi Yar successful the Donetsk portion and Nevske successful the Luhansk region, according to Russian state-run quality bureau TASS.
• Fierce warring took spot successful Ukraine’s Kurakhove area, wherever Russian forces launched 42 assaults. Ukrainian troops pushed backmost 16 of these attacks, but battles are inactive raging.
• Russian craft carried retired 7 attacks connected Ukrainian forces successful the Kursk region, dropping 9 guided bombs, but Ukraine’s subject stay successful power crossed respective areas of the occupied Russian oblast.
• A Russian subject serviceman who precocious returned from Ukraine has been assassinated successful what is believed to beryllium an organised deed successful the Moscow region, TASS reports.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called North Korean engagement successful Russia’s warfare successful his state a “huge menace of escalation” and urged tougher sanctions and isolation against Pyongyang.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his “victory plan” to extremity the warfare with Russia includes requests for circumstantial weapons and an “unconditional” invitation to articulation NATO, saying it “may beryllium imaginable to extremity the warfare nary aboriginal than adjacent year” if the program is implemented now.
• Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Zelenskyy’s program is pushing NATO towards nonstop struggle with Russia and would pb to catastrophe for the Ukrainian people.
• NATO’s caller main Mark Rutte said the program was a affirmative development, but helium was not capable to enactment it arsenic a full arsenic “that would beryllium a spot difficult”.
• Zelenskyy is scheduled to be a NATO defence ministers’ gathering connected Thursday, according to NATO’s docket for the day.
• Ukraine has appealed to the International Maritime Organization to nonstop an planetary monitoring ngo to Odesa ports, accusing Russia of putting “millions of radical successful the satellite astatine hazard of starvation” arsenic it attacks civilian ships and atom retention facilities.

Military aid

• NATO’s Rutte said members of the subject confederation are “firmly connected track” to fulfil a pledge of 40 cardinal euros ($43.53bn) successful subject assistance for Ukraine this year, saying the bloc committed 20.9bn euros ($22.7bn) during the archetypal fractional of 2024 and is connected way for the remainder of the year.
• US President Joe Biden spoke to Zelenskyy successful a telephone successful which helium announced a caller $425m subject assistance bundle for Ukraine, which volition see aerial defence capability, air-to-ground munitions, armoured vehicles and different captious munitions.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies