Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,306

Here is however things basal connected Monday, September 22:

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 3 radical and injured 16 adjacent the municipality of Foros connected the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian-appointed caput of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the onslaught occurred “using onslaught drones equipped with high-explosive payloads”, successful a edifice country “where determination are nary subject targets whatsoever”.
• Two radical were killed successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a state presumption successful Pervomaisk, successful Ukraine’s Luhansk region, occupied by Russia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for Luhansk said, according to Russia’s authorities quality bureau TASS.
• Anna Soroka, a Russian-appointed quality rights commissioner for the Luhansk region, said that Ukraine was deliberately targeting state stations during a play of substance shortages, according to TASS.
• TASS besides reported that 1 idiosyncratic was killed successful a Ukrainian onslaught connected Russia’s Belgorod region, and 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 3 radical were critically injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Vasylivka successful Russian-occupied Zaporizhia.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces attacked the Saratov Oil Refinery successful Russia’s Saratov portion connected Saturday night, reportedly causing fires and explosions. Ukrainian forces besides attacked the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery successful Samara, wherever the General Staff said “the results of the harm are being clarified”, successful a connection shared connected Facebook.

Regional security

• Germany’s aerial unit said it scrambled 2 Eurofighter jets to way a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which Germany said entered neutral airspace implicit the Baltic Sea.
• The incidental comes aft Estonia, Poland and Romania reported Russian combatant jets oregon drones entering their airspace successful caller weeks.
• Estonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said connected Sunday that the United Nations Security Council volition convene an exigency league connected Monday “in effect to Russia’s brazen usurpation of Estonian airspace”.
• Two officials told Reuters that a planned NATO North Atlantic Council gathering to respond to the usurpation of Estonia’s airspace would instrumentality spot connected Tuesday.
• Asked connected Sunday whether helium would assistance support European Union countries if Russia intensified hostilities, United States President Donald Trump told reporters: “Yeah, I would. I would.”

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his state is readying to conscionable with Trump this week, amid a “very aggravated week” of diplomacy during the UN General Assembly successful New York, successful a station connected X.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said that European countries were complying with planetary instrumentality by utilizing the proceeds from frozen Russian assets successful European banks. But helium added that seizing the assets from Russia’s cardinal slope could origin “total chaos”, successful effect to a question from CBS quality astir caller comments made by Trump.
• Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded, saying: “If Moscow’s frozen assets are confiscated successful Europe, determination won’t beryllium chaos, but alternatively precise harsh countermeasures from Russia. And they cognize this,” Russia’s RIA Novosti bureau reported.
• Russian Colonel General Alexander Lapin, a elder commandant who served successful the archetypal signifier of Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, has been dismissed from subject service, Russian media outlet RBC reported connected Sunday, citing an unidentified source.