As the war enters its 920th day, here are the top developments.
Here is the situation on Monday, September 2, 2024.
Struggle
- At least 47 people have been wounded in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Officials said Russia fired at least 10 missiles into the city, hitting locations including a shopping mall. After the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again urged kyiv’s allies to allow it to fire Western-supplied missiles deeper into Russian territory to reduce Moscow’s military threat.
- At least three people were killed and nine wounded in a Russian airstrike on Kurakhove, a town about 35 kilometers south of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, officials said.
-
At least one person was killed and four others were injured in a Russian airstrike in Ukraine's Sumy region on the border between the two countries. The local administration in Sumy said that nine districts in the region, which was also hit by drones, were attacked.
- At least one person has been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a Ukrainian shelling in Russia's southern Belgorod region, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
- Russia said it had stopped a “massive” Ukrainian airstrike that brought down at least 158 drones in 15 regions of the country, including two over Moscow. No casualties were reported.
-
Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces captured two more settlements in eastern Ukraine: Ptyche, about 21 kilometers (13 miles) southeast of Pokrovsk, and Vyimka, another settlement in the Donetsk region.
-
Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said the situation was “difficult” around the site of Russia's main offensive in eastern Ukraine.
-
The Kharkiv Air Force University said two crew members of a Ukrainian helicopter were killed when the aircraft crashed during a military training flight. The Defense Ministry is working to determine the cause of the accident.
Arms
- Russia will amend its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it sees as a Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying. Ryabkov said the work was at an “advanced stage.”
