Because the conflict enters its 959th day, those are the principle traits.This is the location on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Combating
The loss of life toll from a Russian ballistic missile assault on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa area rose to 8 with 9 folks injured, Regional Governor Oleh Kiper mentioned. Wednesday’s assault hit a Panama-flagged container vessel that used to be on the port.
Ukraine’s Deputy High Minister Oleksii Kuleba mentioned Russia attacked Ukraine’s port infrastructure virtually 60 occasions within the closing 3 months and is intensifying such moves.
No less than six folks had been injured after a sequence of Russian-guided bomb assaults at the southeastern town of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, mentioned. The assault additionally broken 29 constructions.
A Russian drone assault at the central town of Kryvyi Rih injured two folks and broken a five-storey residential development, inflicting a hearth, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, Serhiy Lysak, mentioned.
Outmanned Ukrainian forces fended off attacks by way of Russian troops within the strategic town of Toretsk, Kyiv’s army mentioned. Army spokesperson Anastasia Bobovnikova informed the Reuters information company that side road preventing used to be raging within the hilltop the town, with Russian troops pushing ahead and “utterly erasing” constructions.
Russia mentioned its missiles struck two launchers of a US-made Patriot air defence machine in central Ukraine, with Kyiv acknowledging the weapon have been hit, however announcing it remained operational. A Ukrainian army blogger mentioned the strike happened in Pavlohrad, within the Dnipropetrovsk area.
The Ukrainian army mentioned it struck an ammunition depot at an airfield in Russia’s Adygeya area within the North Caucasus, about 450km (280 miles) from the entrance line in jap Ukraine. Adygeya regional head Murat Kumpilov mentioned that the village of Rodnikovyi have been evacuated after the drone assault began a hearth, however there have been no casualties.
Politics and international relations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a lightning excursion of Western Eu capitals as he main points his “victory plan” to Ukraine’s allies. He met British High Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary-Basic Mark Rutte in London, French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and Italian High Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. He’s anticipated to fulfill Pope Francis on Friday morning prior to heading to Germany for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Talking in Paris, Zelenskyy denied media experiences that he used to be discussing the phrases of a ceasefire with Russia. “This isn’t the subject of our discussions,” he informed newshounds. “It’s no longer proper.”
In Rome, Meloni introduced Italy would host the following “restoration convention” to lend a hand Ukraine’s reconstruction. Meloni mentioned the convention would happen in Rome from July 10-11, 2025.
Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who went lacking whilst reporting from occupied east Ukraine in August 2023, has died in Russian detention, a spokesperson from Ukraine’s jail of conflict coordination headquarters mentioned. Investigations had been beneath manner into the instances of her loss of life, he added.
Ukraine’s parliament authorized the primary main tax hike since Russia’s full-scale invasion as army spending soars. The legislation imposes measures together with an efficient tax price on financial institution earnings of fifty p.c, a tax on monetary firms of 25 p.c, and an building up within the conflict tax paid by way of civilians from 1.5 p.c to five p.c.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected feedback from South Korea’s defence minister that North Korean squaddies had been more likely to be preventing along Russian troops in Ukraine.
Client merchandise large Unilever exited Russia after promoting its Russian operations to Arnest Staff, a Russian producer of fragrance, cosmetics and family merchandise. It didn’t divulge the quantity Arnest paid. Unilever mentioned the deal additionally integrated its Belarus trade.
Guns
Russia has recruited about 200 younger African girls to paintings at a Tatarstan manufacturing unit generating Iranian-designed drones to be used in Ukraine, in step with an investigation by way of The Related Press information company. AP mentioned the ladies had been lured to Russia via a social media marketing campaign that presented a unfastened flight and work-study programmes in spaces like hospitality and catering handiest to search out themselves on the drone manufacturing unit within the Alabuga Particular Financial Zone, about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) east of Moscow.
The German-based Kiel Institute warned Western army and fiscal support to Kyiv may halve to about 29 billion euros ($31.6bn) in 2025 if Donald Trump wins the November 5 election in the USA. Trump has claimed he would finish the conflict “in 24 hours” if elected. He has no longer mentioned how.
