Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,305

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, September 21:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a large-scale rocket and drone attack, targeting areas crossed Ukraine, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 radical and wounding dozens more, according to Ukrainian officials.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 580 drones and 40 missiles, and that the attacks took spot crossed 9 regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv.
• Ukrainian forces launched drone attacks connected Russia’s southwestern Samara region, sidesplitting astatine slightest 4 people, according to Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev announced connected societal media. The portion is located 800km (497 miles) from the beforehand enactment successful Ukraine.
• The Reuters quality agency, citing Ukraine’s SBU information agency, said Ukrainian drones deed Russian lipid pumping stations, which are portion of the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk lipid pipeline, successful the Volgograd and Samara regions. The facilities that were targeted were progressive successful Russian lipid exports via the Black Sea larboard of Novorossiysk, the study said.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces changeable down 383 Ukrainian drones implicit the past day.
• The ministry besides claimed control of the colony of Berezove successful Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.

Regional security

• Poland and its allies scrambled craft to guarantee the information of Polish airspace aboriginal connected Saturday aft Russia launched attacks connected occidental Ukraine, the country’s equipped forces announced.
• The determination came aft Poland changeable down suspected Russian drones successful its airspace earlier this month, and Estonia said 3 Russian subject jets violated its airspace for 12 minutes connected Friday.
• The United Kingdom besides sent 2 combatant jets connected their archetypal NATO aerial defence sortie implicit Poland arsenic portion of the alliance’s Eastern Sentry mission, its authorities said.
• Lithuanian Minister of Defence Dovile Sakaliene has called connected NATO to urgently determination aerial defence capabilities to front-line states, saying citizens of NATO states are “being threatened astir each time now”.

Ukrainian rescuers assistance an aged idiosyncratic astatine the tract of a drone onslaught adjacent a residential gathering successful Dnipro, Ukraine, connected Saturday [Ukraine State Emergency Service Handout Photo/EPA]

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine’s Zelenskyy said that helium would meet United States President Donald Trump connected the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly successful New York adjacent week to sermon information guarantees for his state and sanctions connected Russia.
• Zelenskyy said helium expects the US to enforce a caller circular of beardown sanctions against Russia, a time aft the European Union besides announced its 19th circular of sanctions bundle connected Moscow.
• Russia has intensified its usage of transgression prosecution, semipermanent imprisonment, intimidation, torture and ill-treatment to soundlessness absorption since its penetration of Ukraine, according to Mariana Katzarova, the UN peculiar rapporteur connected the rights concern successful Russia. The study detailing a “seismic decline” of the quality rights concern successful Russia volition beryllium presented to the Human Rights Council connected Monday.