Ukraine has sent drones more than 750 kilometers from its border to a Russian explosives factory. Russia sent missiles towards Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown. Vladimir Putin is preparing to convene an international summit, showing the failure of the West to isolate him. Here is the main information relating to the war in Ukraine this Sunday October 20, 2024.
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Ukrainian drones target major Russian explosives factory
Ukraine said it had targeted a major Russian explosives factory located some 750 kilometers from the border with attack drones during the night. According to a source from the SBU security services atAFPthe factory in question is Sverdlov’s in Dzerzhinsk, just outside the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.
Russian authorities confirmed that drones targeted the area, but said the attack was foiled. “Air defense and electronic warfare equipment repelled a drone attack on the territory of the Dzerzhinsk industrial zone,” said on Telegram, Gleb Nikitin, governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
“Four employees of the fire station, located on the territory of the industrial enterprise, were slightly injured by shrapnel from falling debris,” he added.
Images posted on Russian social media show a large explosion in the area and small drones shot down by air defense systems. L’AFP could not immediately verify these images. kyiv did not specify the possible damage of the attack on the factory’s production capacities.
Russian missiles hit Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown
Seventeen people were injured by Russian missile fire on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky in central Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday, relayed by theAFPwho also reported dozens of drones launched by Russia during the night.
Russian missile strikes notably damaged an administrative building, a hotel and a school, Ukrainian police said.
Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak later said 15 residential buildings, shops, a cafe, a church, offices, a bank branch and a gas pipeline had been affected.
The Ukrainian military said Russia fired two ballistic missiles in the attack. She also said she had shot down 31 drones out of the 49 launched by Russia against Ukrainian territory.
About ten of these drones were also destroyed near Kyiv, the capital, said the city’s military administration, which reported no casualties or damage.
Vladimir Putin succeeds in uniting the Brics in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin is bringing together around twenty foreign leaders from October 22 to 24, a summit of allies and partners intended to demonstrate his power and the failure of the efforts that the West have made to isolate him since the assault on ‘Ukraine.
The summit of the Brics, a bloc of emerging countries, should see 24 foreign leaders and the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, come to Kazan, on the banks of the Volga, according to the Kremlin, which prides itself on “the most important diplomatic event ever organized in Russia”.
This meeting, a snub to Western sanctions imposed on Russia, comes as Moscow is gaining ground militarily in Ukraine and has forged close alliances with the United States’ greatest adversaries: China, Iran and South Korea. North.
The Kremlin has also managed to maintain its partnerships with countries that remain linked to the West, such as the Indian Narendra Modi and the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Moscow is also counting on the presence of the Chinese presidents, Xi Jinping, and Iranian presidents, Massoud Pezeshkian.
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