Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 970

Here is the concern connected Tuesday, October 22, 2024:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s aerial defences destroyed 42 of 60 drones launched by Russia during an overnight strike, the Ukrainian Air Force said, implicit parts of central, confederate and eastbound Ukraine.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence units destroyed a full of 18 Ukrainian drones. Eleven drones were downed successful the confederate Bryansk region, 3 implicit Belgorod, which served arsenic a basal for Russia’s full-scale penetration successful 2022, and the remainder implicit the regions of Kursk, Tula and Oryol, the ministry said connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Three civilians, including a child, were killed successful a residential country successful eastbound Ukraine’s Sumy portion pursuing a drone onslaught by Russia, according to the determination governor.
• Overnight drone attacks by Ukraine caused an detonation and a occurrence astatine an ethanol manufacturing works and damaged 2 different alcohol-producing enterprises successful Russia, the authorities said.
• One detonation shook the Bio-Khim biochemical works successful Russia’s Tambov region, sparking a short-lived fire, Tambov Governor Maxim Yegorov said connected Telegram. Meanwhile, the politician of the Tula region, which borders Moscow to its north, said Ukrainian drones damaged 2 distilleries, successful the municipality of Yefremov and the colony of Luzhkovskyi. There were nary reports of casualties.
• Another Ukrainian drone onslaught damaged a boiler location and a non-residential gathering successful Russia’s Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, its politician said.
• Russian attacks killed 3 radical successful the confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia and 3 successful the Donetsk region, according to the determination governors there.

Diplomacy

• President Vladimir Putin volition conscionable satellite leaders arsenic Russia hosts a acme of the BRICS bloc of processing economies successful the metropolis of Kazan.
• The confederation that initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is expanding rapidly. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia joined successful January. Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia person applied for membership.
• Putin is expected to conscionable United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres connected Thursday connected the sidelines of the BRICS meeting, according to the Kremlin. The UN has not yet confirmed the meeting.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised Guterres for what it said was his acceptance of an invitation from Putin. “The UN Secretary General declined Ukraine’s invitation to the archetypal Global Peace Summit successful Switzerland. He did, however, judge the invitation to Kazan from warfare transgression Putin. This is simply a incorrect prime that does not beforehand the origin of peace. It lone damages the UN’s reputation,” the ministry wrote successful a station connected societal media level X.
• South Korea volition gradually instrumentality countermeasures successful enactment with the level of subject practice betwixt Russia and North Korea, including supplying weapons to Ukraine, Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo said.
• Seoul summoned the Russian ambassador to criticise Pyongyang’s determination to nonstop hundreds of soldiers to enactment Moscow’s warfare successful Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said arsenic it called for their contiguous withdrawal.
• China called for de-escalation pursuing South Korea’s connection that North Korea has sent troops to Russia for deployment successful Ukraine, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said.
• Turkey offered to enactment arsenic an intermediary to extremity the warfare and endeavoured to support bully ties with Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said helium discussed harmless navigation for shipping successful the Black Sea with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Weapons and funds

• The United Kingdom volition springiness Ukraine 2.26 cardinal pounds ($2.94bn) arsenic portion of a overmuch larger planned indebtedness from the Group of Seven (G7) nations from frozen Russian assets to assistance bargain weapons and rebuild damaged infrastructure, Defence Secretary John Healey said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United States was preparing an assistance bundle worthy $800m to concern the accumulation of Ukrainian drones. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin besides announced an further $400m successful caller arms for Ukraine during a sojourn to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, successful a amusement of solidarity 2 weeks earlier the US statesmanlike election.
• Dozens of US representatives from the Democratic and Republican parties person urged the medication of US President Joe Biden to toughen sanctions connected Russian lipid shipments and questioned wherefore the world’s largest oilfield services company, SLB, was inactive operating successful Russia.