Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 980

Here is the concern connected Friday, November 1, 2024:

Fighting

• Rescue teams completed betterment operations astatine a gathering deed by a Russian guided-bomb connected Wednesday successful the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv. The decease toll has risen to three, with children aged 12 and 15 among the dead, portion 36 radical person been injured.
• Air defence systems intercepted 10 Ukrainian drones implicit 4 regions of Russia, the Russian Defence Ministry has said, with nary harm oregon injuries reported. Five drones were downed successful Kursk, 3 successful Bryansk, 1 successful Oryol, and 1 successful the Black Sea Crimean Peninsula.
• Several substance and vigor facilities person been targeted successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the cardinal Russian portion of Bashkortostan, causing minimal harm and nary casualties.
• Russian forces captured the colony of Yasna Poliana successful the Donetsk portion of eastbound Ukraine, according to Russia’s Defence Ministry.
• Russia attacked a strategical span crossed the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Estuary successful Ukraine’s confederate Odesa region, launching 2 ballistic Iskander missiles and 8 guided missiles, Kyiv has said.
• Ukraine has said it changeable down 17 retired of 43 drones and 2 guided missiles launched by Russia overnight.
• Russia has said Ukraine’s enactment is intelligibly tense astir Russian advances on the beforehand enactment if Kyiv is asking the United States to proviso long-range Tomahawk missiles.

Rescuers enactment astatine the tract of an flat building, which was deed by a Russian aerial onslaught successful Kharkiv connected October 31 [Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters]

North Korean soldiers successful Ukraine

• The US expects North Korean troops successful Russia’s Kursk portion to participate the combat against Ukraine successful the coming days, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He added that 10,000 North Korean troops are successful Russia, including arsenic galore arsenic 8,000 successful Kursk, wherever Ukrainian forces proceed to clasp territory.
• Blinken besides pressed China successful a “robust conversation” this week to usage its power to rein successful Pyongyang. He said China, on with the full world, should beryllium demanding North Korea cease its “provocative” actions, including deploying troops successful Ukraine.
• In an interrogation with South Korean media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted what helium called his allies’ “zero” effect to Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops successful Ukraine, saying a anemic absorption would promote President Vladimir Putin to summation the contingent.
• Zelenskyy besides said helium believed Moscow was trying to hold for North Korea to nonstop engineering troops and a “large fig of civilians” to enactment astatine Russian subject plants.
• In prepared remarks to the United Nations Security Council, the Ukrainian authorities named 3 North Korean generals it said are accompanying the thousands of Korean People’s Army troops deployed to Russia.
• The Kremlin declined to remark erstwhile asked if Russia was helping North Korea to make its subject technology, arsenic Seoul warned Pyongyang could get rocket exertion from Russia for helping with the warfare successful Ukraine.

International diplomacy

• Ukraine is assured of continued US enactment careless of who wins adjacent week’s statesmanlike election, the country’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said, contempt Donald Trump antecedently blaming President Zelenskyy for helping commencement the warfare with Russia.
• The warfare successful Ukraine is hurting the full satellite and the longer it goes connected the worse the consequences volition beryllium for everyone, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said astatine a two-day Montreal league concerning the instrumentality of Ukrainian prisoners and children detained by Russia.

Russian and Ukrainian affairs

• The Russian authorities is seeking to reallocate 7 trillion roubles ($72bn) successful its three-year fund draft, with a important information of the funds directed towards the military, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said. The fund draught allocates 13.5 trillion roubles ($139bn) to the subject successful 2025, oregon 6.3 percent of its gross home merchandise (GDP) – the highest level since the Cold War.
• Russian antheral Yan Petrovsky, who besides goes by the sanction Voislav Torden, is to basal proceedings successful Finland charged with having committed warfare crimes successful Ukraine successful 2014, Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said.
• A pact that Russia and Iran are acceptable to motion volition see person defence cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, arsenic interest grows implicit person subject ties betwixt the countries.
• Ukrainian lawmakers person passed the archetypal signifier of discussions implicit the 2025 budget, with astir 26 percent of GDP ($53.38bn) allocated for defence.
• Ukraine is utilizing dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for un-piloted drones to scope targets, a elder authoritative has said, allowing inexpensive drones carrying explosives to alert successful areas protected by extended awesome jamming.

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