Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,297

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, September 13:

Fighting

• An aboriginal greeting Russian onslaught connected Friday killed 3 radical successful bluish Ukraine’s Sumy region, a determination authoritative reported.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow’s attempts to beforehand successful the Sumy country had failed with dense losses, and Russian operations successful the portion were being “completely foiled by our forces”.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russia’s northwestern larboard of Primorsk has, for the archetypal time, forced the suspension of loading astatine the cardinal occidental lipid terminal, according to 2 manufacture sources and Ukraine’s military.
• An attempted Ukrainian onslaught astatine the Smolensk atomic powerfulness presumption successful occidental Russia was carried retired overnight, but the drone was downed and nary harm oregon casualties were reported, officials said.

Regional security

• The fig of Polish airspace violations by Russian drones this week whitethorn beryllium higher than antecedently reported, with further investigation revealing that determination whitethorn person been 21 incursions implicit Poland, the country’s defence main said.
• Polish Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki urged the United Nations Security Council to contented a beardown effect to Russia implicit drones violating Poland’s airspace.
• More than 40 nations, including the United States, participated successful a associated connection astatine the UN for stronger planetary enactment implicit Russia’s drone incursion into Polish airspace.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk contradicted US President Donald Trump’s appraisal that the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace whitethorn person been a mistake.
• Writing connected X, Tusk said: “We would besides privation that the drone onslaught connected Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we cognize it.”
• NATO is preparing a caller operation, dubbed Eastern Sentry, to adhd subject instrumentality from France, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom to its existing aerial and ground-based defences connected its eastbound European flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, NATO Supreme Commander General Alexus Grynkewich said.
• Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said helium met with US statesmanlike envoy Keith Kellogg successful Kyiv. The brace discussed “the anticipation of Ukraine’s Defence Forces receiving caller Patriot systems and ammunition for them”, helium wrote connected X.
• Russian and Belarusian equipped forces kicked disconnected their large-scale, associated subject exercises known arsenic “Zapad 2025” connected Friday, arsenic German forces successful neighbouring Lithuania led their ain subject drills.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte attends a associated quality league astatine NATO’s office successful Brussels, Belgium, connected September 12, 2025 [Omar Havana/Reuters]

Military aid

• President Zelenskyy said that galore details connected post-war information guarantees for Ukraine were already connected insubstantial arsenic US peculiar envoy Kellogg and nationalist information advisers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy are successful Kyiv, Ukraine.

Sanctions

• Group of Seven (G7) concern ministers discussed the anticipation of imposing sanctions and commercialized measures, specified arsenic tariffs, connected countries they see to beryllium “enabling” Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine, portion exploring different mechanisms to further summation fiscal enactment to Ukraine.
• Japan, the UK and New Zealand imposed caller sanctions connected Russia, including lowering the terms headdress connected Russian lipid and enforcing sanctions against companies linked to Russia’s weapons industry, including a shaper of the Iskander missiles, arsenic good arsenic shadiness naval fleet operators and suppliers.
• The European Union could signifier retired usage of Russian state wrong six to 12 months by replacing it with US liquefied earthy gas, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the Reuters quality bureau connected Friday.

Politics and diplomacy

• US President Donald Trump said his patience with Putin is “running retired and moving retired fast”, but blamed the “tremendous hatred betwixt [Putin] and Zelenskyy” for the prolonging of the war.
• President Zelenskyy said his country’s allies should promote China to usage its leverage with Russia to halt Moscow’s penetration of Ukraine.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan emphasised that diplomacy is the lone viable way to ending the Ukraine-Russia warfare and that the US indispensable alteration its stance from neutrality, which had near a enactment gap.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is acceptable to articulation President Trump connected a authorities sojourn to the UK, wherever helium and British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper are owed to sermon US-British practice connected “ending the Russia-Ukraine war”, the US State Department said.
• Denmark is launching a 375-million-euro ($439m) programme to enactment Ukraine’s integration with the EU, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

Economy

• Russia’s cardinal slope chopped its benchmark involvement complaint connected Friday to 17 percent arsenic maturation has slowed and spending connected the warfare against Ukraine increases the fund deficit.

Peace talks

• Russia said bid talks with Ukraine were connected “pause” arsenic the NATO confederation said it would bolster its eastbound front, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters connected Friday.

Charity

• Britain’s Prince Harry arrived successful Kyiv connected Friday with a squad from his Invictus Games Foundation to item his charity’s plans to assistance rehabilitate wounded Ukrainian soldiers, his bureau said successful a statement.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies