Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,296

Here is however things basal connected Friday, September 12:

Fighting

• Anti-aircraft units downed 7 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow aboriginal connected Friday, according to the Russian capital’s politician Sergei Sobyanin.
• Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Sosnivka successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Russia’s Defence Ministry said connected Thursday.
• A “massive” Ukrainian drone onslaught forced authorities successful Russia’s Belgorod portion to bid children to enactment astatine location portion closing its schools and buying centres, the determination politician Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
• The Moscow-installed medication of the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness presumption accused Ukraine of attacking a grooming centre astatine the works with drones.

A nonmigratory looks astatine his destroyed location pursuing a Russian aerial onslaught successful Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, connected August 30, 2025 [Kateryna Klochko/AP Photo]

Regional security

• The UN Security Council volition clasp an exigency gathering to code Russia’s usurpation of Polish airspace earlier this week, Poland’s Foreign Ministry said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed for a tougher effect to the suspected Russian drone incursion into Poland from Kyiv’s allies, saying the determination by Moscow was apt aimed astatine slowing supplies of aerial defences to Ukraine earlier winter.
• Polish President Karol Nawrocki claimed the Russian drone incursion was an effort to trial Poland’s and NATO’s capableness to respond militarily.
• The Russian drone incursion was a “kind of a prelude” to Russia’s upcoming “Zapad” subject exercises successful Belarus, Poland’s National Security Bureau main said.
• Russia volition not marque immoderate further comments connected the shooting down by Poland of what Warsaw said were Russian drones successful its airspace, the Kremlin said.

• Polish subject representatives program to sojourn Ukraine for grooming connected shooting down drones, a root acquainted with the substance said.
• France volition deploy 3 Rafale combatant jets to assistance Poland support its airspace aft this week’s drone incursions, French President Emmanuel Macron said connected Thursday connected X.
• NATO’s allied aerial bid volition supply Lithuania with amended aboriginal warnings of aerial launches against Ukraine that could transverse into Lithuania, NATO’s apical subject commandant Alexus Grynkewich said.
• Germany volition fortify its committedness to NATO’s eastbound border, including expanding “air policing implicit Poland” successful effect to the incursion of Russian drones, a authorities spokesperson said.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasised the request for Germany’s BND overseas quality work to heighten its operational levels successful the aftermath of accrued threats of hybrid attacks by Russia.

Military aid

• German arms elephantine Rheinmetall plans to manufacture artillery shells for Ukrainian forces astatine a aboriginal accumulation works successful Ukraine, Kyiv’s defence curate said.
• Sweden’s Defence Ministry announced plans for 70 cardinal Swedish krona ($7.5bn) successful subject enactment for Ukraine implicit the adjacent 2 years.

Politics and diplomacy

• President Zelenskyy said helium had discussed associated weapons accumulation with Washington and imposing further sanctions connected Russia during talks with US envoy Keith Kellogg successful Kyiv connected Thursday.
• A typical of United States President Donald Trump told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that the US wanted to reopen its embassy successful Minsk and normalise ties betwixt the 2 countries, aft Washington closed the embassy successful 2022, the State-run Belta quality bureau reported.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has inactive not decided connected attending the APEC acme successful South Korea adjacent month, the Kremlin said.

Sanctions

• Several European Union members including the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Spain summoned their respective Russian ambassadors and complaint d’affaires to explicit authoritative condemnation of Russia violating Polish airspace earlier this week.
• A timeline for the imposition of the EU’s 19th bundle of sanctions against Russia is inactive undetermined, aft an EU delegation returned from Washington, according to a European Commission spokesperson.
• The US volition unit G7 countries to enforce higher tariffs connected India and China for buying Russian oil, the Financial Times reported, arsenic the US looks to ramp up sanctions against Russia implicit the warfare successful Ukraine.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies