Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,300

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, September 16 :

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 2 women successful the colony of Golovchino successful Russia’s Belgorod region, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reports.
• A antheral who was earnestly injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught successful Russia’s Belgorod portion successful April has died successful hospital, TASS reports.
• TASS besides reported that Russian forces changeable down 82 Ukrainian drones successful a 24-hour period.
• Russian forces person captured the colony of Olhivske successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said connected Monday.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said it changeable down 59 of 84 Russian drones fired overnight, portion Russia besides fired 3 guided missiles.
• The commandant of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, reported that a Starlink outage affected the full beforehand enactment for astir 30 minutes, starting astatine 7:28am section clip (04:28 GMT). Ukraine’s forces are heavily reliant connected SpaceX’s Starlink terminals for battlefield communications and immoderate drone operations.

Regional security

• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland’s State Protection Service “neutralised a drone operating implicit authorities buildings” and the Presidential Palace. Police are investigating the drone incident, and 2 citizens of Belarus person been detained, Tusk added successful a station connected X.
• Announcing that the United Kingdom volition deploy combatant jets to Poland, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “Russia’s reckless behaviour is simply a nonstop menace to European information and a usurpation of planetary law, which is wherefore the UK volition enactment NATO’s efforts to bolster its eastbound flank.”
• The UK Foreign Office connected Monday called the caller Russian drone incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace “utterly unacceptable”, and summoned Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin.
• “Russia should recognize that its continued aggression lone strengthens the unity betwixt NATO allies,” the Foreign Office said successful a statement.

Drones alert with flags of Russia and Belarus during the ‘Zapad 2025’ (West 2025) Russian-Belarusian subject drills astatine a grooming crushed adjacent the municipality of Borisov, eastbound of Belarus’s capital, Minsk, connected Monday [Olesya Kurpyayeva/AF]

• Russia and Belarus continued their Zapad 2025 associated subject drills connected Monday, with Russia launching a Kalibr rocket from a atomic submarine successful the Barents Sea, according to the Russian quality bureau Interfax.
• United States subject officers observed the associated warfare games successful Belarus, wherever they were told by Belarusian Minister of Defence Viktor Khrenin that they could look astatine “whatever is of involvement for you”.
• Denmark’s defence curate attended a subject workout successful Greenland connected Monday with his Icelandic and Norwegian counterparts, the Danish Ministry of Defence said. The US did not nonstop observers.
• Danish Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen said successful a statement: “The existent information concern requires america to importantly fortify the equipped forces’ beingness successful the Arctic and North Atlantic.”

Tariffs and sanctions

• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said connected Monday that the medication of President Donald Trump would not enforce further tariffs connected Chinese goods to halt China’s purchases of Russian lipid unless European countries deed China and India with steep duties of their own.
• “We expect the Europeans to bash their stock now, and we are not moving guardant without the Europeans,” Bessent said.
• Russia warned connected Monday that it would spell aft immoderate European authorities that sought to instrumentality its assets aft reports that the European Union was looking for caller ways to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to assistance Ukraine.