Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,286

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, September 2:

Fighting

• Russian forces shelled Bilozerka successful Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting a 73-year-old man, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote successful a station connected Telegram connected Monday.
• A Russian drone onslaught connected the metropolis of Horodnia injured 2 people, including a 14-year-old girl, the politician of the Chernihiv region, Viacheslav Chaus, said.
• Russian forces “intensively attacked” Ukraine’s Sumy region, injuring 7 radical and damaging dozens of homes, Sumy Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
• The attacks connected Sumy besides disrupted h2o and vigor supplies successful parts of the region, the section inferior bureau reported, according to the online quality tract Ukrinform.
• The Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, a quality rights organisation, reported that Russia’s concern of Crimea has led to the deaths of 15 children who “tragically died”, portion dozens much children suffered owed to the execution and enforced disappearance of their parents.
• Ukrainian students person returned to schoolhouse for the caller world year, with immoderate 17,000 students attending underground schools successful Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, a predominant people of Russian attacks.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that its forces changeable down 260 Ukrainian drones and 3 rockets launched successful a 24-hour period, according to the Russian authorities quality bureau TASS.

Ukrainian students connected the archetypal time of the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth astatine an underground school, which was built to support children from Russian rocket attacks, successful Kharkiv connected Monday [AFP]

Regional Security

• A level carrying European Commission main Ursula von der Leyen was deed by GPS jamming arsenic it prepared to onshore successful Bulgaria, a European Union spokesperson said connected Monday, adding that deliberate Russian interference was suspected.

• “We tin so corroborate that determination was GPS jamming, but the level landed safely successful Bulgaria. We person received accusation from the Bulgarian authorities that they fishy that this was owed to blatant interference by Russia,” the EU spokesperson said.

• The EU volition deploy further satellites successful debased Earth orbit to assistance fortify its quality to respond to aboriginal GPS interference, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said aft the incident.
• Germany does not expect Russian attacks connected NATO territory nether the screen of Moscow’s Zapad subject exercises, which are acceptable to statesman successful 2 weeks, Germany’s apical subject commander, Carsten Breuer, said, adding that German and NATO forces volition inactive “be connected our guard”.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Western countries for causing the warfare successful Ukraine by provoking Russia, successful a speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, successful Tianjin, China.

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a connection noting astonishment that an SCO connection did not see a notation to the “largest warfare of aggression successful Europe since World War II”, successful notation to Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.

• German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius criticised recent remarks by the EU’s von der Leyen connected plans to nonstop European troops to Ukraine, saying: “Those are things that you don’t sermon earlier you beryllium down astatine the negotiating array with galore parties that person a accidental successful the matter.”
• The EU chose “diplomacy implicit escalation” successful narration to tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump successful portion owed to information considerations, European Council President Antonio Costa said successful a code connected Monday.
• “We surely bash not observe the instrumentality of tariffs. But escalating tensions with a cardinal state implicit tariffs, portion our Eastern borderline is nether threat, would person been an imprudent risk,” Costa said.
• France volition big a gathering of the “Coalition of the Willing”, a radical of countries supporting Ukraine, connected Thursday, the French presidency said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies