Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 979

Here is the concern connected Thursday, October 31, 2024:

Fighting

• A Russian guided-bomb has struck a high-rise flat artifact successful Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, sidesplitting a kid and injuring astatine slightest 29 people, according to section officials.
• Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Kruhliakivka, adjacent the cardinal municipality of Kupiansk successful northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the Russian Ministry of Defence has said. Ukraine’s subject has not acknowledged Kruhliakivka falling into Russian hands, but officials said 9 villages are gripped by warring successful the area, with 15 Russian attacks repelled and 9 clashes inactive ongoing.
• Nine radical person been injured, respective apartments acceptable ablaze and a kindergarten damaged arsenic Russia carried retired its 19th onslaught connected Kyiv this month. Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia launched 62 drones overnight, but its aerial defences destroyed 33 of them implicit Kyiv and different regions, portion 25 were unaccounted for.

A Red Cross idiosyncratic takes a representation of an flat gathering damaged by a Russian drone onslaught successful Kyiv connected October 30, 2024 [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]

North Korean troops successful Ukraine

• Russia’s United Nations envoy Vassily Nebenzia questioned, astatine a UN Security Council meeting, wherefore its allies cannot assistance Moscow successful its warfare against Ukraine if Western countries assertion the close to assistance Kyiv, adding that Russia’s subject interactions with North Korea bash not interruption planetary law.
• Ukraine’s UN envoy Sergiy Kyslytsya responded that nary countries providing assistance to Ukraine are “under Security Council sanctions”, adding that “receiving assistance from the fully-sanctioned North Korea is simply a brazen usurpation of the UN Charter”.
• At the meeting, North Korea did not admit the deployment of troops to Russia, but said immoderate specified determination would beryllium successful compliance with planetary law, adding that “Pyongyang and Moscow support adjacent interaction with each different connected communal information and improvement of the situation”.
• Deputy US ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, warned North Korean person Kim Jong Un his troops volition “return successful assemblage bags” if they participate Ukraine.
• South Korea’s Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun has said determination is simply a “high chance” North Korea volition question tactical atomic weapons and intercontinental ballistic rocket exertion from Russia successful speech for the deployment of its troops to Ukraine.
• South Korea is considering sending a squad of subject monitors to Ukraine to observe and analyse immoderate deployment of North Korean troops, a statesmanlike authoritative has said.

Sanctions

• The United States has imposed sanctions connected astir 400 entities and individuals from much than a twelve antithetic countries, successful renewed actions against Russia to antagonistic sanctions evasions.
• The action, the astir concerted propulsion truthful acold against third-country evasion, included sanctions connected dozens of Russian, Chinese, Hong Kong and Indian companies, arsenic good arsenic entities successful the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Switzerland and elsewhere.
• The Swiss authorities has said it has approved much sanctions against Belarus, bringing it into enactment with measures the European Union adopted successful precocious June, arsenic it aims to forestall the circumvention of existing sanctions against Russia.
• The Finnish Enforcement Authority has said it is executing an bid by a Finnish tribunal to prehend $4.25bn successful assets owned by Russia successful Finland. Russia summoned Finland’s ambassador to Moscow to protestation the ruling – done astatine the petition of Ukrainian authorities steadfast Naftogaz, which is seeking compensation for Moscow’s expropriation of Naftogaz spot erstwhile Russia annexed Crimea successful 2014.

International relations

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the adjacent gathering of the Ramstein group, which coordinates subject enactment for Ukraine, should beryllium held successful the coming weeks.
• Zelenskyy besides said the West should admit Russia has “won” successful Georgia, aft a pro-Russian enactment won its elections past weekend, and is connected its mode to doing the aforesaid successful Moldova, which volition clasp a statesmanlike predetermination run-off connected Sunday aft a pro-European incumbent failed to unafraid much than 50 percent of the vote.
• Ukraine has received lone 10 percent of a $61bn US subject assistance bundle approved by Congress successful April, according to Zelenskyy, calling the hold-up “not funny”. In the aforesaid statement, the Ukrainian president powerfully hinted that helium has requested supplies of long-range US Tomahawk missiles.
• Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has told Russian tv helium wants to sojourn Moscow for adjacent year’s World War II day and criticised the EU’s attack to the Ukraine war, successful remarks that person stirred ire astatine home.
• The Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a Russian-led post-Soviet subject bloc, plans to clasp exercises successful Belarus successful September 2025, the Belarusian Defence Ministry has said.
• Britain’s concern minister, Rachel Reeves, has promised the UK’s yearly three-billion-British-pound ($3.88bn) enactment for Ukraine volition proceed for “as agelong arsenic it takes”.
• Russia has accused Britain of utilizing a Black Sea atom corridor to present arms to Ukraine, aft denying allegations that Russian attacks connected Ukrainian ports had disrupted important atom supplies for different countries.

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