Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,312

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, September 28 :

Fighting

• Ukrainian long-range drones deed an lipid pumping presumption successful Russia’s Chuvashia region, causing a occurrence and forcing the suspension of operations, an authoritative from the Ukrainian information service, the SBU, told the Reuters quality agency.

• Russian forces had taken implicit 3 much villages successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk and Dnipro regions, amid a grinding Russian beforehand successful the area, Russia’s subject said successful a station connected Telegram.

• Moscow and Kyiv person traded blasted for attacks connected the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which has forced the installation disconnected the main powerfulness grid for the past 4 days.

Regional security

• NATO has announced that it is upgrading its ngo successful the Baltic Sea with an air-defence frigate and different subject assets deployed to the region, aft respective days of unidentified drone sightings astatine airports successful Denmark and subject bases.

• Earlier, Latvia and Lithuania called connected NATO to summation its subject extortion of the Baltic States, citing alleged Russian violations of the subject alliance’s airspace.
• Norway has launched an probe into “possible sightings of drones” adjacent its biggest subject base, Orland, wherever its precocious F-35 combatant jets are stationed, a subject spokesperson said.

Military aid

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that officials from his state volition sojourn the United States successful the coming days for talks connected large arms purchases and drone accumulation deals. Ukraine has prepared a database of astir $90bn worthy of US weapons that it wants to buy.

• Zelenskyy besides announced that Ukraine received a US-made Patriot aerial defence strategy from Israel a period ago, with 2 much Patriot systems expected successful the coming months.

Politics and diplomacy

• Any aggression against Russia “will beryllium met with a decisive response”, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov warned NATO and the European Union successful his code astatine the UN General Assembly (UNGA) successful New York connected Saturday. He warned that Moscow is prepared to enactment if provoked.
• In abstracted remarks to journalists, Lavrov besides suggested that Germany is returning to its Nazi past, successful what was seen arsenic a idiosyncratic onslaught connected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, arsenic his authorities moves to ramp up defence spending amid increasing threats from Moscow.
• Russia has fallen abbreviated of the 93 votes indispensable to get elected to the UN aviation agency’s governing council, successful the latest rebuke pursuing Moscow’s penetration of Ukraine. Russia received 87 votes during the agency’s assembly successful Montreal.
• South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun met Lavrov successful New York, wherever helium expressed Seoul’s “grave concern” implicit subject practice betwixt Russia and North Korea. Thousands of North Korean troops person been sent to assistance Russia successful its warfare against Ukraine, and Pyongyang has bolstered Moscow with a immense transportation of weapons.