Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 941 | News Russo-Ukrainian War

As the war enters its 941st day, here are the key developments.

This is the situation on Monday, September 23, 2024.

To fight

• The number of people injured in a Russian airstrike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has risen to 21, including an eight-year-old child. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used glide bombs to target “an ordinary residential building.” Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said people were asleep when the attack took place and that two of the injured were in critical condition. The Kharkiv city council said 18 buildings were damaged in the attack.
• In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, homes in the city of Sloviansk were hit by a Russian airstrike, trapping a woman under rubble and wounding two of her neighbors, regional prosecutors said.
• Also in Donetsk, two miners were killed and one person wounded after Russian forces shelled a mine west of the city of Pokrovsk, local governor Vadym Filashkin and the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said.
• At least six people were wounded in Russian attacks on the southern Kherson region, two of whom were injured in a Russian drone attack on the city of Kherson, regional authorities said.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired 80 Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukraine overnight. Air defenses shot down 71 drones, while another six were lost on location due to electronic warfare, the statement said.
• Moscow reported that a firefighter was killed and two of his colleagues were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike in Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
• In Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, at least 12 people were wounded in Ukrainian shelling, including a village official and members of a volunteer self-defense force, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy arrived in the United States, where he will present peace proposals he has called a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, as well as to election candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. He spent his first day in the country visiting the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, a factory in Pennsylvania that produces 155mm artillery shells.
• The International Chess Federation (FIDE), the game’s supreme body, rejected a Kyrgyzstan-led proposal to readmit Russia and Belarus but will consider allowing players under 12 or with disabilities to compete in tournaments. The two countries were expelled from FIDE in 2022 after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Weapons

• Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Kiev was in talks with partners in Europe to secure Swedish Gripen and European Eurofighter Typhoon jets. Umerov said commitments had already been made for deliveries of American F16s and French Mirage aircraft.