As the war go ins its 942nd day, these are the main broadenments.
Here is the situation on Tuesday, September 24, 2024.
Fighting
- At least one person was ended and five injured in the tardyst of a series of Russian aggressions on Ukraine’s southeastrict city of Zaporizhzhia, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov shelp. At least 23 people were hurt in Russian aggressions on the city earlier in the day and over the course of Sunday night.
- Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov shelp three people were ended and two injured in Ukrainian shelling of the village of Arkhangelskoe, about 5km (3 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry shelp at least 56 civilians had been ended and 266 injured in the seven weeks since Ukraine began its surpelevate incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi shelp Ukraine adhered by international humanitarian law and did not aim civilians. He advised Russia to permit the United Nations and Red Cross access to the area to verify the situation.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp “determined action” by the United States now could speed up the end of Russian aggression agetst Ukraine. Zelenskyy is on a visit to the US and trying to safe approval to participate Westrict-supplied lengtheneder-range armaments on military aims wilean Russia. He was speaking after a greeting with a bipartisan delegation from the US Congress. He will greet Pdwellnt Joe Biden on Thursday.
- A comleave oution set up by the UN Human Rights Council shelp that Russian prisons were intentionally withhelderlying medical nurture for Ukrainian prisoners, with doctors in one prison even taking part in what it called “torture”. Comleave oution chair Erik Mose telderly the council that torture had become a “common and acalerted rehearse”, with Russian authorities acting with “a sense of impunity”. Mose’s alertation was based on testimonies from establisher Ukrainian inmates at the Olenivka prison in Russian-occupied east Ukraine.
- Mariana Katzarova, the UN exceptional rapporteur on the rights situation in Russia, telderly tellers in Geneva that the rights situation inside Russia has become “much worse” in the past year amid a safeening “state-aided system of dread and punishment”. Katzarova shelp there were an increasing number of arbitrary arrests and prison conditions had deteriorateed. Russia currently has more than 1,300 political prisoners, she shelp.
- Katzarova also shelp there was evidence that Russian convicts who were pardoned or had their sentences cut so they could fight in Ukraine pledgeted offences including violation and homicide when they returned home from the front. An appraised 170,000 convicted aggressive criminals have been recruited to fight in Ukraine.
- Russia and Ukraine clashed at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague in a lengthened-running case about access to coastal waters around Ukraine’s Criuncomfervent Peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
Weapons
- European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell shelp foreign ministers of the Group of Seven meaningful democracies would talk the publish of permiting Ukraine to participate Westrict-supplied lengthened-range leave outiles to hit procreate inside Russian territory.
