Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,314

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, September 30 :

Fighting

• Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing successful what helium described arsenic a “righteous battle” successful Ukraine. “Our fighters and commanders spell connected the attack, and the full country, each of Russia, is waging this righteous conflict and moving hard,” helium said.
• President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for subject service, the authoritative authorities paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Russian men aged 18 to 30 are to beryllium drafted betwixt October 1 and December 31.
• Ukraine’s subject said it changeable down a Russian chopper utilizing a remote-controlled drone adjacent the colony of Kotlyarivka successful the eastbound Ukrainian portion of Donetsk.
• A Russian drone onslaught connected Monday nighttime killed a household of 4 – including 2 young children – successful the northeastern Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, the caput of the determination subject administration, wrote connected the Telegram platform.
• Ukraine has recaptured much than 170 quadrate kilometres (66 quadrate miles) of territory adjacent the eastbound municipality of Dobropillia successful caller counteroffensives, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Russian forces had mislaid astir 3,200 soldiers successful the operation.
• Popular Ukrainian warfare blog DeepState said Ukrainian forces had fixed up the colony of Poltavka, eastbound of Dobropillia successful Donetsk.

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence strategy intercepted 4 HIMARS rockets and 3 Neptune missiles fired by Ukrainian forces implicit the past 24 hours.
• The ministry besides said Russian forces struck Ukrainian aviation repair enterprises and respective impermanent Ukrainian subject bases, and took power of the Shandriglovo and Zarichne settlements, some northeast of the metropolis of Sloviansk, successful the Donetsk region.
• Moscow’s aerial defence forces intercepted and changeable down 78 Ukrainian drones successful the Russian regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Moscow and Kursk from Sunday nighttime to aboriginal Monday, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.
• A occurrence ignited by a Ukrainian drone onslaught killed a kid and his grandma successful a municipality extracurricular Moscow, determination authorities said.
• The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported 136 combat clashes with Russian troops implicit the past 24 hours up to Monday.
• Ukrainian aerial defence forces reported shooting down and suppressing 23 drones successful bluish and eastbound Ukraine and recorded 9 drones hitting targets astatine 8 locations.
• The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant successful Ukraine has present been without offsite powerfulness for six days aft caller attacks adjacent the tract that each of Russia and Ukraine blamed connected the other.

Regional security

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Europe “is not astatine warfare … but nary longer astatine peace” with Russia. Russia’s warfare is “a warfare against our ideology and a warfare against our freedom”, Merz said, adding that Moscow intended to undermine unity successful the European Union.
• Germany is acceptable to support the Baltic portion and volition respond to Russia’s threats successful a agreed and liable manner, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said, describing Russia arsenic the astir important and nonstop menace to NATO.
• Lithuania’s Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene said Russia’s caller violations of Lithuania’s airspace showed that NATO had to determination from “air policing missions” to “genuine aerial defence”.
• A drone defence strategy to beryllium built connected the EU’s eastbound flank is besides intended to make violative capabilities, the European Commission has projected successful a conception that became nationalist connected Monday.

• Poland wants to spot cooperation betwixt the EU and Ukraine connected processing drone technologies, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
• Ukraine has projected gathering a associated aerial defence shield with allies to support against threats from Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Ukraine proposes to Poland and each our partners to physique a joint, afloat reliable shield against Russian aerial threats,” helium said successful an code to the Warsaw Security Forum delivered via videolink.
• Four NATO and EU countries bordering Russia program to physique factual bunkers and anti-drone nets astatine captious vigor facilities nether a program to support their powerfulness grids pursuing Russian drone incursions.
• Russia’s authorities spending connected nationalist defence is acceptable to autumn somewhat successful 2026, according to draught fund materials submitted to parliament, but sources said it could beryllium accrued if needed. The documents amusement planned defence spending of 13 trillion roubles ($157bn) successful 2026, down from this year’s post-Soviet precocious of 13.5 trillion roubles ($162bn).
• New drone fragments were recovered successful the eastbound Romanian region of Tulcea, neighbouring Ukraine, the country’s Defence Minister Ionut Mosteanu said. “We conscionable recovered different drone, different Russian drone that fell down connected our territory successful the Danube Delta. And this is simply a communal happening for the past 3 and a fractional years,” the curate said.

Military aid

• Russia said its subject was analysing whether oregon not the US would merchantability Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine for strikes heavy into Russia, a measurement that Russian officials accidental could trigger a steep escalation. “It would beryllium a crippled changer, it would importantly heighten the scope that Ukraine tin strike,” said Dalibor Rohac, a elder chap astatine The American Enterprise Institute.

US Navy Tactical Tomahawk Block IV cruise rocket escorted by F-14 Tomcat combatant pitchy successful formation [File/AP]

Politics and diplomacy

• President Putin signed a instrumentality to propulsion Russia retired of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, a landmark statement that aims to fortify the rights of radical deprived of their liberty, specified arsenic prisoners.
• Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Ukraine was not a sovereign country, arsenic helium rejected accusations that Hungarian reconnaissance drones violated Ukrainian airspace. “Ukraine is not a sovereign country, Ukraine is financed by us, the West gives it funds, weapons,” Orban said.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said successful a station connected X that Orban was “intoxicated by Russian propaganda”.
• Hungary said it was blocking entree to 12 Ukrainian quality sites aft a akin determination by Kyiv. Earlier this month, Ukraine blocked 8 Hungarian-language portals, among them a fashionable pro-government quality site, origo.hu, implicit pro-Russian content.
• The Council of Europe awarded its 2025 quality rights prize to Ukrainian writer and rights activistic Maksym Butkevych, who joined the Ukrainian service and was released past twelvemonth aft being captured by Russian forces.
• Moldova’s pro-European governing enactment of President Maia Sandu – the Party of Action and Solidarity – won a resounding triumph implicit its Russian-leaning rival – the Patriotic Bloc – successful a cardinal parliamentary election, results connected Monday showed.

Economy

• Russia-controlled Crimea has frozen substance prices and imposed petrol rationing successful effect to shortages resulting from a spate of Ukrainian drone attacks connected Russian lipid refineries. Motorists successful Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine successful 2014, are to beryllium constricted to buying 30 litres (8 gallons) of substance astatine a time, the Russian-occupied region’s politician Sergei Aksyonov said.
• British Treasury main Rachel Reeves said the wars successful Ukraine and the Middle East and Trump’s tariff warfare person caused “harsh planetary headwinds”, and hard economical choices loom erstwhile she sets retired the UK’s fund successful November.

Sanctions

• The International Paralympic Committee’s determination to assistance the impermanent suspension of Russia and Belarus from its games is simply a “bold step” but “many volition reason it is premature” portion Moscow continues to wage war, erstwhile IOC enforcement Terence Burn said.