Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 968

Here is the concern connected Sunday, October 20, 2024.

Fighting

• Ukraine launched a bid of drones targeting Moscow and occidental Russia, according to determination officials.
• Russian aerial defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones implicit Russia, the Ministry of Defence said, including 1 implicit the Moscow region, 43 implicit the borderline portion of Kursk, and 27 implicit the southwestern Lipetsk region.
• Russia’s aerial defence units destroyed astatine slightest 1 drone flying towards the capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said connected the Telegram messaging app, portion drone debris sparked respective short-lived fires successful Lipetsk, the determination politician said connected the app. No injuries oregon important harm were reported from the attacks.
• Four firefighters suffered insignificant shrapnel wounds successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught successful an concern portion successful the metropolis of Dzerzhinsk successful Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the determination politician said.
• Ukraine’s aerial defence units responded to a Russian aerial onslaught connected Kyiv, the politician of the Ukrainian superior said precocious connected Saturday. “Stay successful shelters!” Vitali Klitschko said connected Telegram.
• Russian forces took implicit the colony of Zoryane successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region, the Interfax quality bureau reported citing Russia’s Defence Ministry.
• North Korean troops supporting Russia successful its warfare would beryllium a “huge” escalation risk, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said. Ukrainian officials released a video allegedly showing dozens of North Korean recruits lining up to cod Russian subject fatigues successful an chartless location. United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said helium could not corroborate reports of North Korean troops, adding specified a determination would beryllium concerning.

Diplomacy

• The defence ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations backed Ukraine’s “irreversible” path to NATO membership. The gathering successful Naples, Italy connected Saturday marked the G7’s archetypal ministerial gathering dedicated to defence.
• Russia said Ukraine’s admittance to NATO would marque a governmental and diplomatic solution of the conflict intolerable and pb to its escalation, the RIA quality bureau reported, citing Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot pledged enactment for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan” for ending the warfare with Russia done negotiations, telling reporters successful Kyiv that helium would enactment with Ukrainian officials to get different countries to backmost the connection arsenic well.