Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 924

Here is the status as of Friday, September 6, 2024.

fighting

• Ukraine’s emergency services said at least 55 people were confirmed dead and 328 injured after completing their search and rescue operation at a military educational institution in the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Hit by a Russian missile on tuesday.
• Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a civilian was killed by Ukrainian gunfire in the town of Shebekino in the southern border region.
• Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 60 of the 78 drones launched by Russia in overnight strikes. It added that Russia also used a ballistic Iskander-M missile in the bombing.
• Ukraine’s top military commander Oleksandr Sirsky told CNN News Channel that Kyiv invasion Russia was operating in the southern Kursk region and for six days there had been no Russian advance on the main sector of the Eastern Front.
• Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that infiltration had taken place Fail to slow down Russia’s advance in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Putin said the “main” goal of Russia’s full-scale offensive was to take control of the Donbass.
• Ukraine canceled a train to evacuate residents from the eastern Donetsk city of Pokrovsk amid fears of a possible Russian attack. Russian forces are within 10 kilometers (six miles) of the city. Officials are appealing to the 27,000 people who still live there.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Parliament of Ukraine approved Andrey Sibiha as the country’s new foreign minister after accepting the resignation of his predecessor Dimitro Kuleba. The change is part of the biggest shake-up by the Ukrainian government since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
• Putin said China, India and Brazil could act as mediators in potential peace talks on Ukraine, and that a preliminary agreement reached between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the first weeks of the war could serve as a basis for negotiations.
• The United States indicted five Russian military officers for allegedly carrying out cyber attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine in the years leading up to its invasion. Amending the June indictment, the US Justice Department said a unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency had launched “large-scale cyber operations” in early 2020.
• The Justice Department said it charged Virginia-based Russian television contributor Dmitry Sims and his wife Anastasia Sims with money laundering in two separate schemes to defy US sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Weapons

• The British government said it would give Ukraine 650 lightweight multi-role missiles worth 162 million pounds ($213m) to help defend the country against Russian drones and bombings. They are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.
• US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will host a meeting in Germany of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which is made up of military leaders from more than 50 countries. The US said the meeting’s priority would be to boost Ukraine’s air defenses and activate the allies’ “defense industrial base” to ensure long-term support for Kiev.
• The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations announced that it will hold hearings next week with four semiconductor companies on the use of US-made chips in Russian weapons deployed in the war in Ukraine.

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