Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,311

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, September 27:

Fighting

• A Russian onslaught connected Ukraine’s Kherson portion killed a 74-year-old pistillate and injured 2 different people, Regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote successful a station connected Telegram. About 70 homes and an medication gathering were damaged successful the attack, Prokudin said.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Afipsky lipid refinery. “Confirmed collision and fire,” the General Staff said successful a station connected Facebook, adding that the grade of harm was being investigated.
• Russian forces person occupied the Ukrainian colony of Yunakivka successful the Sumy region, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported, according to Russia’s TASS quality agency.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia connected Friday accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of making “irresponsible” threats aft helium said Moscow’s apical officials should cheque for weaponry shelters adjacent the Kremlin if the state does not halt its violative connected Ukraine.
• In an interrogation with United States media outlet Axios, published connected Thursday, President Zelenskyy said Russian officials “have to cognize wherever their weaponry shelters are”, adding: “If they volition not halt the war, they volition request it successful immoderate case.”
• US President Donald Trump told Zelenskyy helium was unfastened to lifting restrictions connected Ukraine’s usage of American-made long-range weapons to onslaught heavy wrong Russia, but did not perpetrate to doing truthful successful their gathering connected Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed officials.
• Axios besides reported connected Friday that Zelenskyy asked Trump for Tomahawk missiles, citing unnamed sources.

Regional security

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s subject had precocious “recorded violations of our airspace by reconnaissance drones, which are apt Hungarian”, on the country’s borderline with its neighbour. Speaking aboriginal successful his nightly video address, Zelenskyy referred to “very unusual incidents” and called for “thorough checks”.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto replied successful a station connected X, saying: “President Zelenskyy is losing his caput to his anti-Hungarian obsession. He’s present starting to spot things that aren’t there.”
• Earlier connected Friday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Kyiv had imposed an introduction prohibition connected 3 high-ranking Hungarian subject officials, responding to an earlier introduction prohibition imposed by Hungary connected Ukrainian subject officials.
• European Union Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said EU defence ministers person agreed to make a “drone wall” on their borders with Russia and Ukraine, amid expanding reports of Russian violations of EU airspace.

• Moldova’s electoral committee barred 2 pro-Russian parties from taking portion successful this Sunday’s parliamentary election, a high-stakes ballot overshadowed by claims of Russian interference.
• Serbian constabulary arrested 2 radical connected Friday, accusing them of moving “combat-tactical training” for dozens of protesters successful beforehand of tense Moldovan parliamentary elections this weekend.
• The arrests travel aft Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, accused Russia of paying “hundreds of people” to destabilise the state earlier Sunday’s vote.

Energy

• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko enactment guardant plans to either grow his country’s lone existing atomic powerfulness works oregon physique a 2nd works successful bid to proviso vigor to Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, during a gathering astatine the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Friday, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti quality agency.
• Lukashenko besides said aft the gathering that helium had reached an statement for Russia to supply state to Belarus for the adjacent 5 years, RIA reported.
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled person of Belarus’s opposition, told The Associated Press quality bureau that the vigor plans enactment “all of Europe astatine risk” and “proves erstwhile again” that Lukashenko “is complicit successful Russian aggression”.