Russia-Ukraine war: List of important events, day 976 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 976th day, these are the main events.

Here is the situation on Monday, October 28, 2024:

Fighting

• An elderly man in the Ukrainian port city of Kherson was killed after explosives were dropped on him from an airplane, while another man was shot dead, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messaging service.

• Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defense units destroyed 21 Ukrainian aircraft overnight targeting the border of Belgorod region and Bryansk, Voronezh and Kursk regions.

• The drone strike sparked a fire at an unspecified industrial site and injured one person, according to Alexander Gusev, the governor of Voronezh region in southern Russia. He said emergency services were sent to the fire.

• Two explosions were heard near an ethanol plant in the village of Krasnoye, according to the Baza news Telegram channel close to Russian security forces.

Politics and diplomacy

• The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, said that the Ministry of Defense is working on different ways to respond if the United States and its NATO allies help Ukraine to strike deep into its country with long-range Western missiles.
• Putin's Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that cooperation within the “Ukraine plus Northern Europe” format is accelerating with a number of steps that could increase pressure on Russia expected next week. Five Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland – are now NATO members and all have been staunch supporters of Ukraine.
• A delegation of officials from South Korea will inform NATO about the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia, the alliance said, after the United States expressed serious concerns about the use of troops in Ukraine.
• Ukraine said it was investigating reports that Russian troops had fired on civilians in the troubled city of Selydove. A video posted on Telegram by the “Ghost of Khortytsia”, a Ukrainian military unit, purports to show Russian soldiers opening fire on a civilian car.