As the war enters its 960th day, these are the main developments.
Here is the situation on Saturday, October 12, 2024.
Struggle
- Russia has said its forces captured the frontline villages of Zhelanne Druge and Ostrivske in eastern Ukraine, the latest in a series of territorial gains. Ostrivske is located on the eastern bank of the Kurakhove reservoir, in an area where Russia is concentrating its offensive activity, according to the Ukrainian military.
- Russian strikes overnight in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine killed four people, including a teenage girl, and wounded ten more, according to regional governor Oleg Kiper. He said a two-story building was destroyed in the attack and that the victims included a 43-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl. Another woman died in the hospital.
- Authorities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, which the Kremlin says is part of Russia, said one person had died in the Pokrovsk district, where Russian forces are advancing.
- One person was killed and seven wounded in Russian attacks in the eastern Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian police said.
- A major oil terminal on the southern coast of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula that Ukrainian forces attacked remains on fire days after the attack on the city of Feodosia, Russian-installed local authorities said.
Politics and diplomacy
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced 1.4 billion euros ($1.53 billion) in additional military aid to Ukraine by the end of 2024, saying it was a signal to Russia that the West would not stop supporting Kiev. The aid will be given jointly with Belgium, Denmark and Norway and includes more air defense, tanks, combat drones and artillery.
- During his meeting in the German capital Berlin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his hope that the war with Russia will end next year.
- The Ukrainian leader also met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, during a whirlwind tour of European capitals, and asked for help in securing the release of Ukrainians held captive in Russia. Zelenskyy said he had invited the Vatican to participate in a conference on prisoners of war, which will be held in Canada later this month.
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The European Union is expected to impose sanctions on 14 people and organizations linked to Iranian transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia, two European diplomats and a senior EU official said. Diplomats had previously said the EU was studying measures that would curb the operations of national airline Iran Air.
- The US Treasury Department has announced that Treasury Undersecretary Wally Adeyemo will visit London from October 13 to 15 for talks with senior British officials about new sanctions on Russia and the tapping of frozen Russian assets.
Courts
- The Sverdlovsk regional court in Russia's Ural region has convicted a woman who worked for a Russian tank factory of selling military information to Ukraine. Viktoria Mukhametova was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison. Her husband, Danil Mukhametov, is being tried separately on similar charges.
- A Russian military court sentenced two men in a region near Moscow to 16 years each for setting fire to operational equipment on the side of train tracks, allegedly on the orders of Ukrainian security services. The Ria Novosti news agency reported that both were found guilty of “terrorism.”
- A Russian court in Kursk ordered the arrest in absentia and extradition of CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from Ukrainian-controlled territory in Russia's Kursk region. Moscow has launched several criminal proceedings against Western journalists who had produced reports from Kursk after Ukraine's surprise incursion in August.
- Ukrainian prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian detention as a war crime. Roshchyna disappeared in August last year after traveling to Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine on a reporting trip. Reporters Without Borders said Roshchyna had died on September 19, citing a letter sent to her family from Russia.
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