Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,291

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, September 7:

Fighting

• Explosions were heard successful cities crossed Ukraine, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro, precocious connected Saturday, arsenic Russian forces launched different large-scale drone onslaught connected the country, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing officials.
• A Russian onslaught successful the municipality of Putyvl successful Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy portion killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded respective others, determination Governor Oleh Hryhorov said. A nine-year-old kid was among those injured.
• A abstracted Russian drone onslaught successful Zaporizhia successful the southeast besides wounded astatine slightest 15 people, 4 of whom were hospitalised, said Ivan Fedorov, the caput of the subject medication successful the region, which is partially occupied by Russia.
• Authorities successful Ukraine’s Chernihiv said a Russian drone dropped leaflets successful the signifier of 100 Hryvnia bills, offering residents existent wealth successful speech for coordinates to assistance Russia people Ukrainian forces.
• Ukrainian drones deed the extortion of the Zaporizhzhia atomic works grooming centre, causing nary large harm and nary summation successful radiation levels, the Russian-installed medication of the Russia-held works successful Ukraine said. The onslaught occurred astir 300 metres (984 ft) from a reactor unit, the connection added.

Weapons

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that astir 60 percent of weapons utilized by Ukraine’s subject were domestically produced, already exceeding a people helium acceptable 2 months ago. Ukraine has been focusing connected drone accumulation and providing aerial defences to antagonistic Russia’s intensive drone and rocket attacks.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his country’s aerospace manufacture to proceed processing booster rocket engines for abstraction motorboat vehicles and physique connected Russia’s abstraction technology. He said precocious connected Friday that the improvement of the PD-26 craft motor would let for the advancement of subject transport and rider planes.

Politics and diplomacy

• Remains of Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalist fighters during World War II were buried successful occidental Ukraine, with officials from some countries attending the burial, a determination to easiness a uncommon strain successful relations betwixt the 2 adjacent allies.
• A Georgian skipper of a vessel believed to beryllium to Russia’s alleged shadiness fleet has denied intentionally dragging an anchor that damaged Baltic Sea cables successful the Gulf of Finland successful an alleged enactment of sabotage successful December 2024. Captain Davit Vadacthkoria made the comments successful a Finnish court, wherever helium and 2 elder officers of the Cook Islands-registered lipid tanker Eagle S stand accused of “aggravated transgression mischief and aggravated interference with communications”.

Sanctions

• Another tanker carrying liquefied earthy state from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 task has docked successful a Chinese port, ship-tracking information showed, days aft Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese person Xi Jinping successful Beijing. It is the 2nd vas from the sanctioned task to dock successful China since precocious August.

• Seizing Russian cardinal slope assets immobilised successful the 27-nation European Union implicit the Ukraine warfare risks inflicting large harm connected Europe’s economy, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot said. The EU had frozen immoderate 200 cardinal euros ($234.4bn) of Russian cardinal slope assets aft the 2022 penetration of Ukraine, the immense bulk of which are held by the planetary deposit organisation Euroclear successful Belgium.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies