Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,301

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, September 17 :

Fighting

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched much than 3,500 drones and astir 190 missiles against Ukraine truthful acold successful September, describing the onslaught arsenic an “aerial terror” operation.
• Russian forces carried retired a ample onslaught connected Ukraine’s southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, sidesplitting a 41-year-old man, injuring astatine slightest 18 radical and triggering respective fires, determination Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
• One idiosyncratic was killed successful Ukraine’s confederate Mykolaiv region, and 2 radical were injured successful the metropolis of Kharkiv successful the northeast of the country, portion respective different Ukrainian cities successful central, southern, and eastbound areas came nether onslaught from a question of much than 100 Russian drones.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said that its drones deed a state organisation presumption serving the Ukrainian subject successful the Sumy portion of northeast Ukraine. Moscow described the installation arsenic a state intake, retention and organisation constituent utilized by Ukrainian combat forces and rear country enactment units.
• Ukraine’s subject said it struck the Saratov lipid refinery during an overnight onslaught connected Russia’s Saratov region. There were explosions and a occurrence successful the country of the installation pursuing the attack, the General Staff said successful a connection connected the Telegram messaging app. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties oregon harm to infrastructure.
• The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said its squad astatine the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works successful southeastern Ukraine reported shelling taking spot astatine a determination astir 400 metres (1,312 feet) from the facility’s off-site diesel substance retention area. Black fume was besides observed rising from 3 adjacent locations, though determination were nary contiguous reports of casualties oregon harm to the site.
• Russia’s state-owned lipid pipeline institution Transneft warned producers they whitethorn person to chopped output aft Ukraine’s drone attacks connected captious export ports and refineries, the Reuters quality bureau reported, citing 3 manufacture sources. Transneft said the study was portion of the West’s “information war” against Russia.

Military

• United States President Donald Trump’s administration’s archetypal subject assistance packages for Ukraine person been approved, and could soon beryllium shipped arsenic Washington resumes sending weapons to Kyiv. This time, US arms are being sent nether a caller fiscal statement with allies, Reuters reported, adding that the US has approved arsenic galore arsenic 2 $500m worthy of limb shipments.
• Poland volition determine connected submarine procurement this week, which volition pb to the acquisition of the archetypal caller submarines by the extremity of the year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. Poland aims to get 3 caller submarines nether its “Orka” programme to boost subject capabilities successful effect to what it sees arsenic a increasing menace from Russia.
• Russia and Belarus rehearsed the motorboat of Russian tactical atomic weapons arsenic portion of joint warfare games, which began connected Friday, Belarusian person Alexander Lukashenko said. The exercises, which concluded connected Tuesday, besides featured Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile, which was utilized for the archetypal clip past twelvemonth successful Moscow’s warfare connected Ukraine.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to the Nizhny Novgorod portion to observe the decision of the drills, authorities tv reported. Soldiers from India, Iran, Bangladesh, arsenic good arsenic Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali besides participated successful the drills.
• The Pentagon confirmed that US subject officials observed the warfare games, accepting an invitation for the archetypal clip since Russia’s 2022 full-scale penetration of Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump called to congratulate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected his day and thanked him for efforts to assistance halt Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, amid tensions implicit contentious US tariffs.

• US-funded probe conducted by Yale’s School of Public Health identified much than 210 sites wherever thousands of Ukrainian children person been taken for subject training, drone manufacturing and forced re-education by Russia, arsenic portion of a large-scale deportation programme.

• Canadian Minister of Transport Chrystia Freeland volition permission furniture and instrumentality connected a caller relation arsenic Canada’s peculiar typical for Ukrainian reconstruction, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. Freeland, who is of Ukrainian descent, helped thrust Canada’s argumentation towards Russia, including the imposition of a raft of sanctions.

• Russia hopes a caller circular of talks tin beryllium scheduled with US officials aboriginal this twelvemonth to wide up issues successful relations betwixt Moscow and Washington, Sergey Ryabkov, a lawman overseas minister, told Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency.

Sanctions

• The European Commission volition suggest speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil imports, according to its president, Ursula von der Leyen, aft a telephone with Trump. The bloc had antecedently intended to extremity buying Russian lipid and state by January 1, 2028.

Economy

• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called his country’s draught 2026 budget, present successful preparation, a “wartime” fund and said that societal spending, including enactment for veterans of the warfare successful Ukraine, indispensable not beryllium sacrificed to equilibrium the finances. Russia’s existent combined spending connected defence and nationalist information is estimated to scope $204bn successful 2025, the highest since the Cold War.

Regional security

• A Ukrainian antheral suspected of coordinating attacks connected the Nord Stream state pipelines successful the Baltic Sea plans to instrumentality his combat against extradition from Italy to the country’s highest tribunal aft a little Italian tribunal ordered his transportation to Germany.