Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,287

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, September 3 :

Fighting

• Russian drone attacks and shelling killed 3 radical and injured 5 others successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote connected Telegram.
• Two radical were killed successful Russian attacks connected the Polohivskyi district, arsenic Russian forces launched 578 attacks connected 18 settlements successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
• Separate Russian attacks besides killed 1 idiosyncratic successful Kherson, 1 idiosyncratic successful the Kyiv portion and 1 idiosyncratic successful Donetsk, section officials reported, according to the Kyiv Independent quality outlet.
• A Ukrainian drone injured 3 radical successful the colony of Proletarsky, successful Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
• Russian forces seized the Ukrainian colony of Fedorivka successful the Donetsk region, Russian authorities quality bureau TASS reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence.
• Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik told TASS that Ukrainian attacks implicit the past week connected Russia killed 12 radical and injured astir 100.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said that its forces changeable down 158 Ukrainian drones successful a 24-hour period, according to TASS.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is engaged successful a caller unit build-up on definite sectors of the beforehand line. “[Putin] refuses to beryllium forced into peace,” Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video address.
• Ukraine volition ne'er hold to legalise the Russian concern of the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, and an contiguous withdrawal of Russian troops is the lone mode to warrant information there, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States was listening to Russia’s justifications for the penetration of Ukraine and claimed that Moscow and Washington had reached a “mutual understanding” astir the war.
• US President Donald Trump said successful an interview: “I americium precise disappointed successful President Putin, I tin accidental that, and we volition beryllium doing thing to assistance radical live.”
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Putin and Zelenskyy “are not yet ready” for a leaders’ gathering to further sermon ending the war.
• Putin told Slovakia’s premier minister, Robert Fico, astatine talks successful China that Russia has “never objected” to Ukraine’s rank of the European Union. “As for NATO, this is different issue… Our presumption present is good known: we see this unacceptable for ourselves,” Putin said.

Energy

• Kremlin-owned state elephantine Gazprom said Russia and China person agreed to advance a caller pipeline to bring state from Eastern Siberia to China. The woody comes arsenic the EU has said it plans to phase out buying Russian state by 2027, amid Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
• Supplies of Russian state to Slovakia via the TurkStream pipeline are gradually expanding towards 4 cardinal cubic metres, Fico said connected Tuesday aft gathering with Putin.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies