Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 764 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Because the struggle enters its 764th day, these are the primary developments.

Right here is the state of affairs on Friday, March 29, 2024.

Preventing

• No less than three folks have been killed in Russian shelling and aerial assaults. One of many lifeless was a taxi driver in southern Kherson whose automobile was hit by a missile. His two passengers have been injured and brought to hospital.
• Two folks have been injured by falling particles in southern Zaporizhzhia after Russia launched drone assaults on jap, southern and southeastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian navy stated it shot down 26 of the 28 Iranian-designed assault drones.
• Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, stated safety measures within the Ukrainian capital can be tightened, significantly round massive gatherings, after a spate of Russian ballistic missile assaults and threats of escalation.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on the cellphone with Mike Johnson, speaker of the Home of Representatives, telling him it was “very important” for america Congress to go a $60bn navy support bundle for Kyiv that has been held up for months.
• Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrived in New Delhi for talks on Kyiv’s 10-point peace formula forward of a proposed summit in Switzerland. The plan calls for the entire withdrawal of Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Moscow has dismissed the initiative as a non-starter.
• Matthew Axelrod, a senior official within the US Commerce Division, stated the US was asking American firms to cease delivery items to greater than 600 overseas events over fears the objects may very well be diverted to Russia to be used in Ukraine.
• Russian human rights group Memorial warned the well being of Oleg Orlov, its 70-year-old chief, was deteriorating, and accused jail authorities of subjecting him to inhumane therapy. Orlov was jailed final month for 2 and a half years over his criticisms of the struggle in Ukraine. He has filed an enchantment.
• A courtroom within the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad jailed journalist Mikhail Feldman for 2 years for criticism of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
• A Russian navy courtroom in Yekaterinburg jailed 31-year-old self-described anarchist Azat Miftakhov for 4 years on prices of “justifying terrorism” over feedback made to inmates whereas serving a six-year sentence for breaking a window at a neighborhood workplace of President Vladimir Putin’s political occasion. Prosecutors stated Miftakhov had informed different prisoners he would “avenge” a pal who died preventing for Ukraine and expressed assist for the bombing of a regional workplace of Russia’s FSB safety service in 2018.
• The French Defence Ministry stated authorities took down a pretend web site recruiting volunteers to struggle for Ukraine towards the Russian invasion. The positioning had claimed that 200,000 French folks have been invited to “enlist in Ukraine”, with immigrants given precedence.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s defence minister requested allies for extra air defences at a rare assembly of the NATO-Ukraine Council and stated some 97 p.c of Russian missile, drone and guided bomb assaults thus far this yr had been on civilian infrastructure.
• Sergey Naryshkin, the pinnacle of Russia’s International Intelligence Service (SVR), visited Pyongyang this week to deepen bilateral cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang. North Korea has been accused of sending weapons to Russia to be used in Ukraine.