Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 247

Because the Russia-Ukraine struggle enters its 247th day, we check out the principle developments.

Ukrainian service members put together to shoot from a howitzer FH70 at a entrance line, as Russia's assault on Ukraine continues, within the Zaporizhia area [Reuters]

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Friday, October 28.

Battle

• Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed no regrets for the struggle towards Ukraine, insisting it was going to plan as he performed down any nuclear standoff with the West, whereas each side ready for what could possibly be a key battle in Kherson in Ukraine’s south.

• Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov, an in depth ally of Putin, mentioned 23 of his troopers have been killed and 58 wounded in a Ukrainian artillery assault this week. The feedback have been uncommon on condition that pro-Moscow forces have hardly ever admitted to main battlefield losses.
• Russian assaults on Ukraine’s power infrastructure have been forcing electrical energy cuts within the capital, Kyiv, and different locations, officers mentioned.
• “Shelling won't break us – to listen to the enemy’s anthem on our land is scarier than the enemy’s rockets in our sky,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in a video deal with.
• In Kherson, Ukrainian forces killed 44 Russian servicemen prior to now 24 hours, the Ukrainian army mentioned in a Fb submit. It additionally mentioned Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot and a hangar with gear.
• The Russian defence ministry, which mentioned its forces had repelled tried Ukrainian advances within the east, mentioned it had destroyed a Ukrainian army manufacturing unit producing stable rocket gas, explosives and gunpowder close to the city of Pavlohrad within the Dnipropetrovsk area. It mentioned it had additionally shot down a Ukrainian air pressure Mi-8 helicopter.
•  A senior Russian authorities official raised the chance that Russia might shoot down Western industrial satellites getting used to assist Ukraine’s struggle effort.
• Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied area of Zaporizhia ordered cellphone checks on residents, saying the implementation of army censorship below Russia’s martial legislation decree.

Diplomacy

• Joe Biden, the president of america, expressed scepticism about Putin’s remark that he had no intention of utilizing a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. “If he has no intention, why does he maintain speaking about it?” Biden mentioned in an interview with NewsNation.
• The US is reportedly making ready a brand new $275m package deal of army help for Ukraine to bolster its counteroffensive towards Russian forces.

Financial system

• Russia will retaliate if its state and residents’ property are confiscated by the European Union, the overseas ministry mentioned.
• Moscow additionally mentioned that provisions of the Black Sea grain deal to ease Russian agricultural and fertiliser exports weren't being met, including that it was but to resolve whether or not the settlement ought to be prolonged.