Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 953
Al Jazeera
As the war enters its 953rd day, these are the main developments.
Here is the situation on Saturday, October 5, 2024.
Romania has recovered fragments of a Russian drone from a canal in the Danube Delta near the Ukrainian border, the defence ministry said. Romania shares a 650km (400-mile) border with Ukraine and has had Russian drone fragments stray into its territory repeatedly over the past year.
Russia has knocked out about 80 percent of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s east, as Russian soldiers slowly advance. Serhiy Dobriak, Pokrovsk’s military administration head, said Russian forces were about 7km (4 miles) from the town.
An employee at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was killed in a car bomb attack near the city of Enerhodar. Ukrainian military intelligence published a video of his car exploding and in a statement called Andrei Korotkiy a “war criminal” and collaborator. Plant director Yuri Chernichuk described the attack as “horrific” and an “inhumane act”.
The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of playing with fire, a day after Russian forces said they had intercepted a Ukrainian drone near the Kursk nuclear plant and some news outlets reported a fire had broken out several miles away. Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi denied that his country had fired weapons at or near the plant.
