Because the battle enters its 608th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the scenario on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.
Preventing
- Russian forces saved up stress within the devastated metropolis of Avdiivka because it sought to chop off its solely provide routes. The Common Workers of Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned its troops repelled about 10 Russian assaults on Avdiivka, whereas Vitaliy Barabash, head of Avdiivka’s navy administration, mentioned there have been round the clock assaults on Avdiivka’s city centre. “A really troublesome scenario with provides, with 22km [15 miles] of highway continually underneath hearth, day and evening,” Barabash instructed United States-funded Radio Liberty. “This complicates evacuation and supply of help. The enemy is attempting to chop it off. Any motion is a sign to open hearth.”
- Ukraine mentioned it shot down 14 assault drones and a cruise missile fired by Russia at its south and east, however particles from one of many drones broken a warehouse on the Black Sea port of Odesa. Governor Oleh Kiper mentioned nobody was reported injured. There was no remark from Moscow, which denies concentrating on civilian infrastructure.
- Ukraine’s spy service was behind final 12 months’s killing of Darya Dugina, and smuggled the elements of the bomb into Russia inside a cat provider, in response to The Washington Publish. Dugina, who was 29, was killed in a automobile bombing exterior Moscow in August 2022. Her father, Aleksandr Dugin, is an outspoken advocate for the invasion of Ukraine and a supporter of President Vladimir Putin.
Politics and diplomacy
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan submitted a bill on Sweden’s NATO membership to parliament, after elevating objections over a spread of safety issues. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg mentioned he welcomed the transfer and was wanting ahead to a “speedy vote”.
- A Russian court docket extended the detention of Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva till early December. Kurmasheva, who works with the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, was arrested on October 18 after returning residence for a household emergency.
- The US sought the forfeiture of a $300m superyacht of sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov. Authorities in Fiji seized the 348-foot (106-metre) Amadea in Could 2022. Below the court docket motion, the US will search to safe possession of the yacht, after which probably public sale it off with the proceeds transferred to Ukraine.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned that whereas Moscow agreed on the necessity for a “new world order”, the US shouldn’t be the nation to construct it. “… It doesn’t matter what world order they speak about, they imply an American-centric world order – that’s, a world that revolves round america. It received’t be that means any extra,” Peskov mentioned. He was responding to a speech wherein US President Joe Biden had mentioned Washington wanted to “unite the world” to forge a brand new peace.