Published On 7 Nov 20247 Nov 2024
Here is the situation on Thursday, November 7:
Fighting
- A Russian drone attack badly damaged an apartment in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district early on Thursday. No injuries have been reported.
- Air defence units destroyed 38 of 63 Russian drones launched overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday.
- Russian forces have captured two more settlements in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced, naming them as the villages of Maksymivka, just north of the town of Vuhledar, and Antonivka, near the town of Kurakhove, further north.
- Ukraine reported fighting around both villages in the eastern sector of the 1,000-kilometre (600-mile) front line, saying its forces repelled two attacks near Maksymivka and a village near Vuhledar in the Donetsk region and did not acknowledge that either had fallen.
- The General Staff of Ukraine’s military also reported a “tense” situation around Kurakhove, with 39 Russian attacks on Ukrainian positions.
North Korean soldiers in Ukraine
- The upper house of Russia’s parliament has voted in favour of ratifying a treaty between Russia and North Korea which includes a mutual defence clause.
- South Korea is not ruling out supplying Ukraine with weapons, following North Korea’s deployment of troops to support Russia, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has said. North Korea’s involvement in the war presents a threat to the South as Pyongyang gets combat experience and is rewarded with sensitive military technology transfers, Yoon said.
- Yoon also held a call with United States President-elect Donald Trump and discussed forging closer ties with the US across all areas of security and economics, and shared his concerns over North Korea’s deployment of troops backing Russia.
