Day dawns in Europe and a 953rd day of armed conflict begins in Ukraine after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
A Russian guided missile hit a residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday evening, injuring at least 10 people. Authorities say people could be trapped in the rubble, raising fears of a higher death toll.
While Russia claimed Tuesday the capture of the town of Vougledar, in southern Donbass, the American Institute for War Studies believes that this Russian advance will not mean major changes in the conflict.
We take stock of the events that have marked recent hours.
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Russian strike injures at least ten in Kharkiv
A Russian strike carried out on a building in the city of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, left at least ten injured this Wednesday, October 2, 2024, evening. According to authorities, the strike hit a residential building and a child was among the injured.
The city’s mayor, Igor Terekhov, indicates that a three-year-old girl was indeed injured in the attack.
According to Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Sinegoubov, the strike hit the third and fourth floors of the building. All residents had to be evacuated.
Still according to the regional governor, people could be buried under the rubble.
The regional prosecutor’s office indicates, for its part, that Russia launched five guided aerial bombs on Kharkiv and its surroundings around 11 p.m. local time (10 p.m. in France).
Ukrainian army’s loss of Vougledar will have little impact on operations, says ISW
The American Institute for the Studies of War affirmed on Wednesday October 2 that the capture of the Ukrainian town of Vougledar, in southern Donbass, by Russian forces, would not fundamentally change operations
According to the ISW, the loss of Vuhledar will not fundamentally alter offensive operations in the region because it is not a “particularly crucial logistics node”. Indeed, according to the think tank specializing in conflict analysis, Russian forces “already controlled most of the main roads leading to Vougledar before October 1, meaning that Russian forces already had the ability to impede Ukrainian logistics in this part of the front to some extent.”
Warsaw and kyiv take a step towards resolving their historic dispute
Poland and Ukraine have taken a step towards resolving a historic dispute which has sparked a new rise in tensions between the two neighbors and risks slowing down kyiv’s integration into the European Union.
The Ukrainian authorities announced on Tuesday October 1 that they would open the door to certain exhumations of victims of the “Volyn massacres”, drama which dates from the 1940s when tens of thousands of Polish civilians were murdered by Ukrainian nationalists.
Warsaw which describes this tragedy as “genocide” welcomed this decision on Wednesday, the day after the first visit to this country by the new head of Ukrainian diplomacy who was to address this thorny subject.
“This is good information and a step in the right direction,” Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski told the PAP news agency, commenting on the Ukrainian decision.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a structure of tÉat, announced Tuesday that it planned to authorize in 2025 research work for the victims of this tragedy in the Rivne region (west), a necessary step before the exhumations. According to media reports, this work was suspended since 2017, during a new tense episode between two neighbors.
United States announces new humanitarian aid for Ukraine
The American Agency for International Development (USAID) announced this Wednesday the launch of a new project to help rehabilitate Ukrainians mutilated or injured during. USAID announced a $13 million allocation through its Rehabilitation for Ukraine, or Rehab4U, project to improve access to services and assistive technologies and encourage inclusion and the participation of people with disabilities in their communities and in the reconstruction of the country.
The Rehab4U project will be implemented in 15 regions of Ukraine, to ensure an effect on a national scale, indicates the American Agency for International Development in a press release.
The agency also allocated an additional $237 million for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, with support from the U.S. State Department.
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