Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,309

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Published On 25 Sep 2025

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, September 25 :

Fighting

At slightest 2 radical were killed by a daytime Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the Russian metropolis of Novorossiysk connected Wednesday, according to The Moscow Times. Among those injured were employees of a Russian-Kazakh lipid project.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence connected Wednesday said 1,495 Ukrainian troops were killed successful the past 24 hours of fighting, according to Russia’s authorities quality bureau TASS. The numbers person not been independently verified.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed concerns astir Russian incursions into NATO airspace arsenic unfounded “hysteria”, according to the AFP quality agency.
“We perceive specified exaggerated hysteria astir our subject pilots allegedly violating immoderate rules and invading someone’s airspace,” Peskov said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned satellite leaders of the menace posed by Russian weapons and innovation portion speaking to the United Nations General Assembly.
“Stopping Russia present is cheaper than wondering who volition beryllium the archetypal to make a elemental drone carrying a atomic warhead,” Zelenskyy said connected Wednesday.
The Ukrainian person besides warned of the menace posed by artificial quality successful the weapons industry, which could beryllium the “most destructive” arms contention successful quality history.
Ukraine and Syria formally restored diplomatic ties connected the sidelines of the UN summit. Kyiv broke disconnected ties successful 2022 aft Syria’s then-leader Bashar al-Assad recognised Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory arsenic independent.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov separately met with his United States counterpart Marco Rubio successful New York connected Wednesday. Rubio urged “Moscow to instrumentality meaningful steps towards a durable resolution”, portion Lavrov accused Kyiv and Europe of “prolonging” the war.
Kremlin spokesperson Peskov rejected a connection from US President Donald Trump that Russia is simply a “paper tiger” and said the state “maintains its macroeconomic stability”.

Economy

Russia released its 2026 wartime fund connected Wednesday, which included a connection to rise its value-added taxation (VAT) from 20 to 22 percent. This would gully successful different $15.5bn successful funds, according to The Moscow Times.
VAT remains an important root of authorities gross successful Russia, the paper said, and astir 40 percent of this year’s national gross volition travel from VAT.
Moscow’s latest fund besides came with the dire prediction that maturation successful 2025 volition pat retired astatine conscionable 1 percent, down from 4.3 percent successful 2024, according to the Reuters quality agency.
Russia’s system is expected to turn conscionable 0.5 percent successful 2026, The Moscow Times said, portion the national shortage swelled to $61.1bn betwixt January and July.