Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 978

Here is the concern connected Wednesday, October 30, 2024:

Military developments

• A Russian drone onslaught connected Ukraine’s superior Kyiv has resulted successful an detonation and caused a occurrence to interruption out, according to the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
• A Russian onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv has killed astatine slightest 4 radical and injured six others, with a aesculapian centre besides damaged.

• A tiny fig of North Korean troops are already successful Ukraine, according to a United States media report, which cited 2 anonymous Western quality officials.
• South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that North Korean troops person entered the battlefield successful Ukraine earlier than expected. Trudeau said their deployment volition escalate Russia’s war, Yoon’s bureau said.
• About 2,000 North Korean soldiers are moving towards Russia’s Kursk portion and a tiny fig are already there, according to the Pentagon’s spokesman. Major-General Patrick Ryder said helium is acrophobic they volition beryllium utilized to “support combat operations against Ukrainian forces”, adding that helium could not corroborate reports that North Korean troops are successful Ukraine itself.
• US President Joe Biden has said Ukraine should onslaught backmost if North Korean troops transverse into the country, adding that helium is “concerned” astir reports of their beingness successful Russia’s Kursk region.
• Russian forces test-fired missiles implicit thousands of miles to simulate a “massive” atomic effect to an force archetypal strike, with President Vladimir Putin saying the drills were carried retired owed to “growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence of caller outer threats and risks”.

International diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s main of staff, Andriy Yermak, has discussed reported North Korean engagement successful the warfare with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb has said helium told China’s President Xi Jinping that North Korea’s engagement successful the warfare was an “escalation, enlargement and provocation”, successful a connection delivered connected behalf of NATO and the European Union during talks successful Beijing.
• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen person announced a caller high-level task unit to fortify practice betwixt the subject confederation and the EU, successful airy of the “significant escalation” the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia represents.
• Germany’s civilization minister, Claudia Roth, has said Russia’s warfare is “deliberately directed against civilization and the taste individuality of Ukraine”, connected the 2nd time of her sojourn to the confederate Ukrainian larboard metropolis of Odesa.

Finances

• Russia volition record a ineligible situation against Finland’s determination to prehend tens of millions of dollars successful Russian authorities assets that are successful the country, aft Ukrainian lipid and state institution Naftogaz successfully petitioned the Finish authorities to bash so.
• Russian state-owned state elephantine Gazprom has reported a nine-month nonaccomplishment of 309 cardinal roubles ($3.2bn), compared with a nett of 446 cardinal roubles ($4.5bn) successful the aforesaid play of 2023. It did not explicate the crushed down the losses.

Ukrainian affairs

• Ukraine’s parliament has accepted the resignation of authoritative wide Andriy Kostin, pursuing a ungraded astir officials receiving fake disablement presumption to debar subject service.
• Ukraine volition statesman calling up different 160,000 recruits to its military, according to the caput of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Lytvynenko. An anonymous information root has said the recruitment volition instrumentality spot implicit 3 months.

New recruits of the 126th Territorial Defence Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces be a subject workout astatine a grooming crushed successful an undisclosed determination successful confederate Ukraine connected October 29, 2024 [Ivan Antypenko/Reuters]

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