Here is the situation on Thursday, September 26, 2024.
A Russian-guided bomb strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least two people and injured 19 others, according to regional governor Vadym Filashkin.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced that its forces had captured the Ukrainian villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka in the eastern Donetsk area, near the town of Vuhledar, a historic Ukrainian bastion with a population of 14,000 before the war.
According to a late evening report from Ukraine’s General Staff, eight armed confrontations occurred in the Vuhledar area. The region’s governor, Filashkin, stated that Russian reconnaissance groups were in Vuhledar, but their forces had not captured the town.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked international leaders at the UN General Assembly to stick with his country and support a “real, just peace” more than two and a half years after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Zelenskyy singled out China and Brazil for proposing “half-hearted settlement plans,” accusing them of prioritizing their own interests before Ukraine’s. Zelenskyy’s peace plans call for Russia’s withdrawal from the Ukrainian land it has occupied, as well as justice for war crimes.
US President Joe Biden said the United States would announce initiatives to accelerate support for Ukraine and help the country rebuild from the damage of Russia’s invasion.
Biden and Zelenskyy are due to meet at the White House later on Thursday.Making his first speech at the UNGA, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said 600,000 Russian soldiers had been “killed or wounded” in its invasion of Ukraine, and questioned how Russia could “show its face” at the UN after treating its own citizens “as bits of meat to fling into the grinder”.