As the war enters its 941st day, here are the top developments.
Here is the situation on Monday, September 23, 2024.
Struggle
- The number of people injured in a Russian airstrike on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, has risen to 21, including an eight-year-old boy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used glider bombs to target “an ordinary residential building.” Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said people were sleeping when the attack occurred and two of the injured were in critical condition. Kharkiv's city hall said 18 buildings were damaged in the attack.
- In Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, a Russian airstrike hit homes in the city of Sloviansk, trapping a woman under rubble and injuring two of her neighbors, regional prosecutors said.
- Also in Donetsk, two miners were killed and another person wounded after Russian forces shelled a mine west of the town of Pokrovsk, according to local governor Vadym Filashkin and Ukraine's Energy Ministry.
- At least six people were injured in Russian strikes in the southern Kherson region. Two of them were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the city of Kherson, regional authorities said.
- Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine overnight and on Sunday. Air defenses shot down 71 drones, while six others were lost on the spot due to electronic warfare countermeasures, the statement said.
- Moscow says one firefighter has been killed and two of his colleagues wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike in Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
- In Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said at least 12 people, including a village official and members of a volunteer self-defense force, were wounded in the Ukrainian shelling.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelensky arrived in the United States, where he will present peace proposals he has called a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, as well as to election candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. He spent his first day in the country visiting the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, a Pennsylvania factory that produces 155mm artillery shells.
- The International Chess Federation (FIDE), the game’s governing body, has rejected a Kyrgyzstan-led proposal to readmit Russia and Belarus but will consider allowing players under 12 or with disabilities to take part in tournaments. The two countries were expelled from FIDE in 2022 after Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Arms
- Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said kyiv was in talks with its European partners to purchase Swedish-made Gripen aircraft and European Eurofighter Typhoons. Umerov said commitments had already been made for the delivery of US-made F16s and French Mirage jets.
