As the war enters its 938th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Friday, September 20, 2024.
Fighting
At least one person was killed and 13 injured after Russia bombed a nursing home in the northeastern city of Sumy, the region’s military administration said.
Russia also attacked energy infrastructure in the northeastern region causing temporary disruption to supplies, Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo said.
An elderly woman was killed and two other people injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Russian forces had shelled the region 161 times in the previous 24 hours, damaging infrastructure facilities and residential buildings, he added.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down all 42 Russian drones and one of four missiles used in attacks on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s surprise offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk in early August had led to the diversion of about 40,000 Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, reducing its potential for attack there. Zelenskyy added that the situation on the eastern front remained “extremely challenging”.
Russia claimed to have taken control of the village of Georgievka, which lies about 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of Russian-occupied Donetsk city in Ukraine’s east.
Politics and diplomacy
The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said Russian air attacks on Ukraine’s electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities probably violated international humanitarian law.
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce …