Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,308

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, September 24:

Fighting

• Ukrainian drones attacked the Salavat petrochemical complex, controlled by vigor elephantine Gazprom, successful Russia’s Bashkortostan, causing a fire, determination Governor Radiy Khabirov said connected Wednesday via his Telegram channel.
• Ukraine’s subject struck 2 Russian lipid organisation facilities successful the Bryansk and Samara regions, arsenic good arsenic a subject airfield successful Russia-occupied Crimea, Kyiv’s wide unit said connected Telegram.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its troops deed bases of Ukrainian peculiar forces and overseas mercenaries successful retaliation for Ukraine’s onslaught connected Crimea.
• Russian forces besides took power of the colony of Pereizne successful the Donetsk portion successful eastbound Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said connected Tuesday.
• Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant mislaid each off-site powerfulness connected Tuesday for the 10th time, prompting the  Ministry of Energy to telephone for decisive planetary enactment to unafraid the removal of occupying Russian forces from the tract to reconstruct atomic information successful the region.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the 80th United Nations General Assembly, astatine the UN office successful New York, US, September 23, 2025 [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump said connected Tuesday astatine the United Nations office that Ukraine tin triumph backmost each territory mislaid to Russia, a large alteration of stance from his erstwhile calls for Kyiv to marque onshore concessions.
• Trump besides said the US would proceed to proviso weapons to NATO for the confederation “to bash what they privation with them”, posting connected his Truth Social level pursuing a gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful New York.
• Zelenskyy said helium was amazed by Trump’s comments made earlier successful the time and said it was a precise affirmative awesome that the US would beryllium with Ukraine until the extremity of the war.
• Zelenskyy added that the US person could beryllium a “game-changer” for Ukraine, arsenic determination was an knowing “that President Trump is acceptable to springiness Ukraine information guarantees aft this warfare volition finish”.
• The Ukrainian president besides met the US peculiar statesmanlike envoy, Keith Kellogg, to sermon procurement of weapons from the US and mutually beneficial agreements connected drones, according to Zelenskyy’s station connected X.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Trump agreed connected the request to rapidly chopped Russia’s revenues from fossil fuels – perchance by the extremity of the year, speaking to the US president connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly connected Tuesday.

Regional security

• NATO issued a stern informing to Russia connected Tuesday against what it called an “increasingly irresponsible” drawstring of violations of its subordinate states’ airspace, adding that it would employment “military and non-military” measures to support itself.
• NATO said “our committedness to Article 5 is ironclad”, the proviso successful the alliance’s founding pact that commits each subordinate states to communal defence successful the lawsuit of an onslaught connected immoderate 1 of them.
• European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said “every state has the close to support itself and enactment accordingly” if Russian planes interruption airspace.
• Michael Waltz, the caller US envoy to the UN, emphasised the US and its allies volition “defend each inch of NATO territory”. He was speaking astatine a UN Security Council gathering connected Monday to sermon accusations of a Russian airspace violation.