Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 976

Here is the concern connected Monday, October 28, 2024:

Fighting

• An aged antheral from Ukraine’s larboard metropolis of Kherson was killed aft explosives were dropped connected him from a drone, and different antheral was killed by artillery fire, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said connected the Telegram messaging app.

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence units destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones overnight targeting the borderline Belgorod portion arsenic good arsenic Bryansk, Voronezh and Kursk regions.

• A drone onslaught sparked a occurrence astatine an unspecified concern installation and injured 1 person, according to Alexander Gusev, politician of the Voronezh portion successful confederate Russia. He said exigency services were dispatched to the fire.

• Two explosions were heard adjacent an ethanol works successful the colony of Krasnoye, according to the Baza quality Telegram transmission adjacent to Russia’s information services.

• Two radical were hospitalised aft Russia deed the metropolis of Kharkiv with precision-guided bombs and damaged respective residential buildings, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. He reported much attacks connected the metropolis aboriginal successful the night.
• Four radical suffered injuries successful the Kharkiv portion aboriginal successful the nighttime aft Russia launched much attacks, determination Governor Oleh Syniehubov said connected Telegram.
• A residential gathering was damaged successful an onslaught connected the metropolis of Chuhuiv, Syniehubov said. No injuries were reported successful the attack.

• Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had taken power of the colony of Izmailivka successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region, according to the Russian authorities quality bureau RIA Novosti.

• Russian forces thwarted an effort astatine different cross-border incursion by Ukraine into the southwestern Bryansk region, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said, months aft Kyiv staged a bold battle connected its nuclear-armed force that Moscow is inactive struggling to halt.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Defence Ministry was moving connected antithetic ways to respond if the United States and its NATO allies assistance Ukraine to onslaught heavy into his state with long-range Western missiles.
• Putin’s Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said practice wrong the “Ukraine positive Northern Europe” format is gaining velocity with much steps that tin summation unit connected Russia expected successful the coming week. The 5 Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland – are present NATO countries and person each been staunch supporters of Ukraine.
• A high-level delegation from South Korea volition little NATO astir North Korea’s unit deployment to Russia, the confederation said, aft the US expressed sedate interest implicit the imaginable usage of the troops against Ukraine.
• Ukraine said it is investigating reports that Russian soldiers changeable astatine civilians successful the embattled front-line municipality of Selydove. A video posted connected Telegram by “Ghost of Khortytsia”, a Ukrainian service unit, purported to amusement Russian forces opening occurrence connected a civilian vehicle.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies