As the war enters its 975th day, these are the main developments.
Here is the situation on Sunday, October 27, 2024:
Struggle
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Ukrainian air defense units were deployed early on Sunday to repel a wave of Russian drones heading towards kyiv, said Vitali Klitschko, viejo of the Ukrainian haber, calling on residents to stay in shelters.
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Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defense units also destroyed at least 30 Ukrainian drones over the southern regions of Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Belgorod overnight.
- A woman was injured as a result of the drone attack in the Belgorod border region, the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on the Telegram messaging app. He added that some cars were also damaged.
- Maxim Yegorov, governor of the Tambov region, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Moscow, said a Ukrainian drone fell in the region's Michurinsky district, sparking a short-lived fire but causing no injuries or damage. materials.
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Russian forces advanced further into several eastern Ukrainian cities, including Selydove, coming closer to capturing the strategic city of Pokrovsk, Russian and Ukrainian bloggers said. Russian media outlet SHOT said on Telegram that Russian troops control 80 percent of Selydove.
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Russian military bloggers also reported that Russian forces were close to taking control of the town of Kurakhove southwest of Hirnyk.
- Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of the Oleksandropil settlement in eastern Ukraine, according to state news agency RIA Novosti.
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Ukraine said in its report on Saturday afternoon that its forces had repelled 36 Russian attacks along the Pokrovsk front line the previous day, including in the Selydove area, while several battles were still ongoing.
- A Russian glide bomb killed one person and wounded three in Kostiantynivka, near the front line in the Donetsk region, the regional governor said.
- Russian bombing killed two people in a small village west of the Ukrainian-controlled southern city of Kherson.
Politics and diplomacy
- A series of Russian attacks that killed and wounded civilians in Ukraine in recent days have prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call again for kyiv's allies to step up political pressure on Moscow.
- Group of Seven finance ministers have decided to step up efforts to prevent Russia from evading sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, amid reports that Russian financial institutions have developed a network of foreign subsidiaries to facilitate trade in sanctioned goods.
- The deployment of North Korean troops to help Russia in its war against Ukraine is unlikely to have a significant effect on the fighting on the ground, but could affect security interests in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, said Pascal Dayez-Burgeon, a North Korea expert and former French diplomat in Seoul.
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