Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 960

Here is the situation on Saturday, October 12, 2024.

Fighting

The most recent in a line of territorial gains, according to Russia, has resulted in the capture of Zhelanne Druge and Ostrivske, eastern Ukraine’s front-line villages. The Ukrainian military claims that Ostrivske is located on the eastern banks of the Kurakhove reservoir, where Russia is concentrating its offensive activities.
According to regional governor Oleg Kiper, Russian strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa overnight left four people dead, including a teenage girl, and ten others injured. He said a two-storey building had been destroyed in the attack and that the victims included a 43-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl. Another woman died in hospital.
One person was reported dead in the Pokrovsk district, where Russian forces are advance, according to authorities in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, which the Kremlin claims is a part of Russia.
According to Ukrainian police, one person has been killed and seven others have been hurt in recent days’ Russian attacks on Kharkiv’s eastern region.
Local Russian-installed authorities reported that a significant oil terminal on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which Ukrainian forces attacked, is still in flames days after the attack in Feodosia.

By the end of 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced 1.4 billion euros ($1.53 billion) in additional military aid for Ukraine, saying it was a show to Russia that the West would continue to support Kyiv. The aid will be given jointly with Belgium, Denmark and Norway and includes more air defence, tanks, combat drones and artillery.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the conflict with Russia will end in the coming year at their meeting in Berlin, which is in Berlin.
During a frantic tour of major European cities, the Ukrainian leader met Pope Francis at the Vatican and requested assistance in obtaining the release of Ukrainians held captive by Russia. In a conference on the prisoners of war, scheduled for later this month in Canada, Zaelenskyy claimed he had invited the Vatican.
According to two senior EU diplomats and a high-ranking EU official, the European Union is expected to impose sanctions on 14 individuals and organizations linked to Iranian ballistic missile transfers to Russia. Prior to now, diplomats had stated that the EU was considering measures to curtail Iran Air’s operations.
Wally Adeyemo, the deputy secretary of state for foreign affairs, will travel to London from October 13 to October 15 to discuss further sanctions against Russia and the use of frozen Russian assets.

A woman who worked for a Russian tank factory was found guilty of treason by the Sverdlovsk regional court in the Urals region of Russia after she was accused of selling Ukrainian military information. In a penal colony, Viktoria Mukhametova received a 12- and-a-half-year sentence. Her husband, Danil Mukhametov, is being tried separately on similar charges.
Two men in a region close to Moscow have been given sentences by a military court in Russia for allegedly setting fire to operating equipment on the side of railroad tracks. The duo was found guilty of “terrorism,” according to the Ria Novosti news agency.

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh was detained in absentia and extradited because of his reporting from the Kursk region, which is home to the Ukrainians. Following Ukraine’s surprise incursion in August, Moscow has launched a number of criminal charges against Western journalists who had written reports from Kursk.
Ukrainian authorities announced on Friday that they would look into Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna’s death while she was being held in Russian custody for war crimes. Roshchyna vanished in August of last year after making a reportage in the eastern Ukrainian region of Russia. According to Reporters Without Borders, Roshchyna passed away on September 19 due to a letter sent by Russia to her family.

Source: Aljazeera