Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,302

Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,302 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, September 18:

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone has struck a car successful Russia’s Belgorod borderline region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring another, according to the region’s governor.

• The Ukrainian service mislaid much than 1,500 troops during front-line warring implicit the past day, reported Russia’s authorities TASS quality agency, citing the Ministry of Defence. Ukraine has not confirmed the claim, and some sides person engaged successful what autarkic analysts described arsenic unsurprising communicative warfare aimed astatine projecting subject gains.

• The General Staff of the Ukrainian equipped forces said Russia had mislaid an estimated 1,020 people, on with 360 unmanned aerial vehicles and 36 artillery systems, successful the past day. Russia has not confirmed the claim.
• Meanwhile, Russian forces besides deed Ukrainian railway infrastructure facilities, “storage and motorboat sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, arsenic good arsenic impermanent deployment sites”, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected societal media level X that though Russia had prepared offensives successful Sumy, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia this year, Russia has mislaid “so overmuch manpower” that “as of now, they deficiency the spot for large-scale offensives.”

Military

• Speaking astatine a associated quality league with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, Zelenskyy said missiles for Western aerial defence systems were among the archetypal acceptable of US weapons being sent nether the Priority Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism, which allows NATO states to wage for the transportation of United States-sourced weapons and technology.
• Ukraine has received much than $2bn truthful acold arsenic portion of the PURL scheme, Zelenskyy said, with the full expected to emergence to up to $3.6bn successful October.

• Lithuanian prosecutors charged 15 radical successful transportation with detonations of DHL parcels astatine logistics depots successful Europe past year, which prosecutors allege were organised by Russian citizens with ties to Russian subject intelligence.

• In what Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called “a paradigm shift”, Denmark volition procure “long-range precision weapons” for the archetypal clip successful effect to the menace posed by Russia. Moscow’s ambassador to Copenhagen said the determination was “pure madness”.

Politics and diplomacy

• After a day telephone telephone from Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the Russian president – who helium referred to arsenic “my friend” – connected X, penning that India is “ready to marque each imaginable contributions towards a peaceful solution of the Ukraine conflict”.

• King Charles seemed to mildly nudge US President Donald Trump connected lasting steadfast successful Ukraine’s corner, during a lavish ceremonial for Trump during his sojourn to the United Kingdom, erstwhile the British monarch recalled the US-UK confederation during World Wars I and II. “Today, arsenic tyranny erstwhile again threatens Europe, we and our allies basal unneurotic successful enactment of Ukraine, to deter aggression and unafraid peace,” the king said. The comments came amid questions implicit whether Trump has enactment capable unit connected Putin to negociate a bid deal.

• Ahead of the 80th United Nations General Assembly “high-level” week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said helium would conscionable with Russian and Ukrainian delegations but was “not optimistic astir the short-term advancement successful the bid process successful Ukraine”. The 2 sides’ positions are excessively different, helium said, with Ukraine driven by “a morganatic involvement to sphere its territory” and Russia “determined to [do] thing that would mean the concern of ample parts of Ukraine”.

• Russian nationalists and online bots moved rapidly to sow part aft the sidesplitting of blimpish right-wing fig Charlie Kirk, The Associated Press quality bureau reported, tying his decease to US enactment for Ukraine and adjacent spreading the conspiracy mentation that Ukraine was liable for his death.

US President Donald Trump and King Charles talk connected time 1 of Trump’s 2nd authorities sojourn to the UK [Yui Mok/Reuters]

Economy and energy

• Ukraine and the US International Development Finance Corporation said they would each perpetrate $75m to a associated concern money that is portion of Kyiv’s minerals woody with Washington. The woody – which Trump has referred to arsenic “payback” for Ukraine assistance – was signed successful May and volition springiness the US preferential entree to caller Ukrainian minerals and earthy resources licences successful speech for post-war fiscal and subject assistance.
• Ukraine has state reserves to conscionable astir 80 to 90 percent of its request for the upcoming winter, but inactive needs up to $1bn successful further substance stockpiled, information show.
• Russia’s user terms scale roseate by 0.04 percent successful the week ending September 15, the authorities statistic bureau said, compared with 0.1 percent maturation successful the erstwhile week. Overall terms maturation successful the twelvemonth to day stands astatine 4.08 percent, compared with 5.78 percent for the aforesaid play past year.