Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 981

Here is the concern connected Saturday, November 2:

Fighting

• At slightest 2 radical were wounded successful an overnight Russian drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Debris from downed drones deed 3 metropolis districts, damaging residential buildings and starting fires, according to Serhiy Popko, caput of Kyiv’s subject administration.
• A Russian missile strike connected Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, deed a determination utilized by police, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 serviceman and wounding 40 people, the authoritative general’s bureau said. Nine civilians and a rescue idiosyncratic were among the injured, the bureau said connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said an earlier onslaught connected the metropolis had damaged an flat artifact and respective backstage houses.

Rescuers inspect the remains of a residential gathering aft a onslaught successful Kharkiv, connected November 1, 2024 [Sergey Bobok/AFP]

North Korean troops successful Ukraine

• North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said her state volition “stand firmly” by Russia until triumph successful Ukraine.
• Choe’s sojourn to Moscow comes arsenic the United States warned that thousands of North Korean soldiers are astatine the Ukrainian borderline and are readying to participate combat successful the coming days.
• Choe pledged that North Korea would proceed to make its atomic arsenal, with Pyongyang wide suspected of wanting atomic exertion from Russia successful speech for subject support.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lauded “very adjacent ties” betwixt their countries’ “armies and peculiar services”, without mentioning the unit deployment, during his gathering with Choe.
• In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised Kyiv’s allies for inaction amid the deployment of North Korean troops. The president has, for months, been urging his Western allies to let Ukraine to usage long-range missiles to deed targets wrong Russia and summation unit connected Moscow to extremity the war.
• “We cognize wherever these North Korean troops are gathering successful Russia. We could enactment preemptively if we had the means – long-range capability. Yet, America, the UK, and Germany watch,” helium posted connected societal media level X.

Diplomacy

• The US announced an further $425m successful subject assistance to Ukraine. The caller assistance bundle includes aerial defence interceptors and munitions for rocket systems and artillery, and brings the full magnitude of subject assistance the US has provided Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale penetration successful 2022 to $60.4bn.
• Japan and the European Union announced a sweeping new information and defence partnership successful Tokyo amid escalating tensions with Russia, North Korea and China. EU overseas argumentation main Josep Borrell hailed it arsenic a historical and “very timely” step, adding it would assistance “tackle emerging threats”.
• Days earlier the US statesmanlike elections, Lavrov warned successful an interrogation with Turkish paper Hurriyet that Washington and Moscow are connected the brink of a “direct military” clash arsenic helium criticised US President Joe Biden.
• Asked astir adjacent week’s US statesmanlike election, Russia’s apical diplomat said his state had “no preference” betwixt Republican campaigner Donald Trump and Democratic contender Kamala Harris, adding that “whoever wins the election, we tin spot nary anticipation of the United States changing its Russophobic course”.
• China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said increasing ties betwixt North Korea and Russia are not its interest and “how they make bilateral relations is their ain matter.”
• South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, asked whether Seoul could nonstop weapons to Ukraine successful effect to North Korea aiding Russia, said each imaginable scenarios were nether consideration.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, with his North Korean counterpart Choe Son Hui successful Moscow, Russia [Russian Foreign Ministry via AP]

Courts

• Russia sentenced 2 men successful occupied Crimea to 14 and 16 years successful situation connected treason charges, accusing them of moving for Ukraine’s information services.
• A Russian tribunal said a pupil volition look proceedings this period for treason connected behalf of Ukraine, aft the 20-year-old was jailed successful Chechnya for allegedly burning the Quran. Nikita Zhuravel, who is from Crimea, was arrested successful May 2023 for allegedly burning the spiritual publication successful the confederate metropolis of Volgograd.
• A Russian erstwhile worker of the US consulate successful Russia’s acold eastbound metropolis of Vladivostok has been sentenced to 4 years and 10 months successful situation for “secret collaboration with a overseas state”, Russian agencies said.

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