Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,303

Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,303 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is however things basal connected Friday, September 19 :

Fighting

• Ukrainian drones deed a cardinal oil-processing and petrochemical analyzable successful Russia’s Bashkortostan region, arsenic good arsenic an lipid refinery successful the Volgograd region, arsenic Ukraine escalates its campaign against Russia’s extended lipid and state sector.
• Russian subject units assertion to person breached Ukraine’s occidental colony of Yampol and secured caller positions adjacent 5 residential areas successful the aforesaid area, according to Russia’s authorities TASS quality agency.
• Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has claimed Russia is gaining crushed successful “almost each directions” on the beforehand lines with Ukraine.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted that Russian losses person mounted successful the eastbound metropolis of Pokrovsk amid Ukraine’s “heroic defence” of the area.
• Latvian authorities identified debris from a Russian drone recovered connected the Baltic coast, adjacent the country’s larboard metropolis of Ventspils. Latvia’s Defence Minister Andris Spruds wrote connected X that the entity was the process extremity of a “decoy” Gerbera drone and confirmed it was not explosive.

Regional security

• The United States Department of State has approved the merchantability of Javelin rocket systems to Poland for an estimated $780m. The woody would “support the overseas argumentation and nationalist information of the United States by improving the information of a NATO ally”, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.
• Ukraine has agreed to train Polish soldiers and engineers successful drone warfare defence. The announcement came a week aft Polish and NATO forces changeable down much than 20 drones violating the country’s airspace during a Russian aerial onslaught connected neighbouring Ukraine.
• The European Commission’s Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said helium plans to convene talks with defence ministers adjacent week connected creating a “drone wall” on the European Union’s eastbound border, a conception that was already nether treatment earlier the astir caller incidents of Russian drone incursions successful EU airspace.
• Ukrainian anti-drone technology, battle-tested against Russia, was connected show astatine a Taiwanese defence expo this week.

Peace process

• US President Donald Trump said successful a Fox News interrogation that helium was “very disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin implicit his nonaccomplishment to unafraid a bid woody successful Ukraine.
• “The 1 I thought was going to beryllium easiest [to settle] was going to beryllium Russia-Ukraine, due to the fact that of my narration with President Putin. So I’m disappointed,” Trump said.
• In the aforesaid interview, Trump proclaimed the US would play a relation successful post-war peace-building successful Ukraine. “After the warfare is settled, we would assistance unafraid the peace. And I deliberation yet that’ll happen,” helium said.
• Trump said successful different associated quality conference, aft gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, that President Putin “has truly fto maine down”.
• During the meeting, Trump and Starmer discussed ways to summation defence enactment for Ukraine and “decisively” enactment unit connected Putin to hold to a bid deal, Starmer said.
• Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took a swipe astatine Trump successful response, according to TASS: “When President Trump says helium is disappointed, it seems to maine – I can’t accidental that I cognize him precise well, of course, but I person spoken with him respective times, and I person formed a definite content – that this is partially due to the fact that helium wants speedy solutions”.

Politics and diplomacy

• President Zelenskyy said helium had spoken with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and thanked him connected X for “assistance successful returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia”. In different post, helium thanked the United Kingdom’s King Charles for “steadfast support” aft the king referenced Ukraine during a meal with Trump connected Wednesday.

I spoke with the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani @TamimBinHamad.

I thanked him for his assistance successful returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. We greatly worth this solidarity and specified sincere attraction to our children.

I invited Qatar to instrumentality portion successful the…

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 18, 2025

Economy and energy

• Russia’s Ministry of Finance announced a caller measurement to assistance support the authorities fund from lipid terms fluctuations and Western sanctions arsenic Russian lipid and state income for September are expected to spot a 23 percent simplification compared with past year, the Reuters quality bureau reports.
• Putin suggested helium was consenting to rise taxes connected the wealthy, specified arsenic imposing a luxury taxation oregon higher taxes connected banal dividends, to boost Russia’s wartime economy.

Sanctions

• The European Commission is slated to contiguous its 19th bundle of sanctions against Russia to subordinate states connected Friday, which includes a connection to prohibition Russian liquefied earthy gas, an authoritative said.
• Australia announced caller sanctions against 95 “shadow fleet” Russian vessels, which are lipid tankers utilized to evade Western sanctions. The authorities besides lowered the terms headdress for Russian lipid to $47.60 per barrel, down from $60 a barrel, pursuing a akin determination by the EU, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.