Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,315

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, October 1 :

Fighting

• Russian forces assertion to person captured a colony adjacent the metropolis of Siversk successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the Russian Ministry of Defence said connected Tuesday.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is engaging with Russia and Ukraine to reconstruct offsite powerfulness to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, arsenic Russian shelling has prevented restoration of powerfulness needed to chill atomic reactors and forestall a meltdown, IAEA main Rafael Grossi said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia’s shelling astir the Zaporizhzhia works “is a menace to everyone”.
• “No violent successful the satellite has ever dared to bash with a atomic powerfulness works what Russia is doing now,” Zelenskyy said successful his nightly code connected Tuesday.

A Russian worker stands defender astatine a checkpoint adjacent the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant successful Russian-controlled Ukraine [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Regional security

• European Union leaders volition sermon proposals for a “drone wall” astatine a acme connected Wednesday successful Copenhagen, pursuing days of airspace intrusions by unidentified unmanned craft that forced impermanent closures astatine Danish airports.
• The “drone wall” acme volition besides beryllium the archetypal accidental for leaders of the EU’s 27 countries to statement a connection to usage Russian assets frozen successful European banks to money a indebtedness of 140 cardinal euros ( $164.37bn) for Ukraine.
• The Kremlin said that Germany has agelong been indirectly progressive successful the warfare successful Ukraine aft German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Europe is “no longer astatine peace” with Russia.
• Moscow besides said that Europe would beryllium amended disconnected seeking dialog with Russia astir information issues alternatively than looking to physique a divisive “drone wall”.
• Romania is looking to rapidly acceptable up accumulation connected its territory of a works to physique antiaircraft drones, on with Ukraine, for usage domestically arsenic good arsenic by EU and NATO allies, the country’s overseas minister, Oana Toiu, said.
• The French Navy said that authorities were investigating a imaginable sanctions infraction by the lipid tanker Boracay, a vas suspected of belonging to the alleged “shadow fleet” progressive successful the transport of Russian oil.

Military aid

• Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow did not judge that Washington had taken a last determination connected supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• The Kremlin said that determination were galore radical surviving successful Ukraine’s Odesa and Mykolaiv regions who wanted to “link their destiny to Russia” but were acrophobic to talk out.
• Russia volition expel an Austrian diplomat, according to Russian authorities quality agencies, successful effect to Vienna’s determination to propulsion retired a Russian diplomat implicit suspicions of relaying institution secrets from Austrian lipid institution OMV to the Kremlin.
• US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that India is starting to diversify its lipid purchases distant from Russia, and that the EU is trying to fortify economical ties with India.
• Russia’s Lavrov said that helium believed Moldova’s predetermination connected Sunday had been openly manipulated, arsenic the pro-European governing enactment won a resounding triumph implicit its Russian-leaning rival successful the cardinal parliamentary election.