Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Sunday, October 16.
Preventing
- Not less than 11 folks had been shot lifeless at a Russian navy coaching floor within the metropolis of Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine, RIA information company cited the ministry of defence as saying, including that 15 others had been wounded.
- Ukrainian forces shelled broken the administration constructing within the metropolis of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk area, the Russian-backed administration of the town stated on Sunday.
- Within the 24 hours to Sunday morning, Russian forces focused greater than 30 cities and villages throughout Ukraine, launching 5 missile and 23 air assaults and as much as 60 rocket assaults, the Basic Workers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated.
- A missile assault severely broken a key power facility close to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, the nation’s grid operator has stated, because the Russian navy strove to chop energy in far-flung populated areas.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence says its troops have halted Ukrainian makes an attempt to advance within the Kherson area.
- Preventing is especially intense within the jap provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the strategically vital Kherson province within the south, three of the 4 provinces Russia “annexed”.
- Ukrainian troops are nonetheless holding the strategic jap city of Bakhmut regardless of repeated Russian assaults, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy stated.
- The primary Russian troopers to participate in a brand new joint drive with Belarusian troops have arrived in Belarus, Minsk’s defence ministry has stated.
Diplomacy
- Elon Musk stated his rocket firm SpaceX would proceed to fund its Starlink web service in Ukraine, citing the necessity for “good deeds”, a day after he stated it may now not afford to take action.
- Iran’s overseas ministry has once more rejected claims that it has equipped Russia with weapons “for use within the struggle in Ukraine”. The remark got here after Kyiv and plenty of of its Western allies accused Moscow of utilizing Iranian-made drones in assaults in current weeks. The subject is anticipated to be mentioned by EU overseas ministers in a gathering in Luxemburg on Monday.
- France will prepare as much as 2,000 Ukrainian troopers on its territory, Sebastien Lecornu, minister for the armed forces, has advised Le Parisien newspaper.
- Germany’s overseas minister has warned that Russia may search to spark division within the West by means of refugees, as Moscow seeks to broaden its “hybrid struggle”.
