Russia-Ukraine conflict: List of key occasions, day 1,311 | Russia-Ukraine conflict News

Here are the important thing occasions on day 1,311 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.

Here is how issues stand on Saturday, September 27:

Fighting

• A Russian assault on Ukraine’s Kherson area killed a 74-year-old lady and injured two different individuals, Regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a submit on Telegram. About 70 properties and an administration constructing had been broken within the assault, Prokudin mentioned.
• Ukraine’s General Staff mentioned Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Afipsky oil refinery. “Confirmed collision and fireplace,” the General Staff mentioned in a submit on Facebook, including that the diploma of injury was being investigated.
• Russian forces have occupied the Ukrainian village of Yunakivka within the Sumy area, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported, in line with Russia’s TASS information company.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia on Friday accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of constructing “irresponsible” threats after he mentioned Moscow’s high officers ought to verify for bomb shelters close to the Kremlin if the nation doesn’t cease its offensive on Ukraine.
• In an interview with United States media outlet Axios, revealed on Thursday, President Zelenskyy mentioned Russian officers “should know the place their bomb shelters are”, including: “If they won’t cease the conflict, they’ll want it in any case.”
• US President Donald Trump informed Zelenskyy he was open to lifting restrictions on Ukraine’s use of American-made long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russia, however didn’t decide to doing so of their assembly on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed officers.
• Axios additionally reported on Friday that Zelenskyy requested Trump for Tomahawk missiles, citing unnamed sources.

Regional safety

• Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine’s army had just lately “recorded violations of our airspace by reconnaissance drones, that are possible Hungarian”, alongside the nation’s border with its neighbour. Speaking later in his nightly video deal with, Zelenskyy referred to “very unusual incidents” and referred to as for “thorough checks”.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto replied in a submit on X, saying: “President Zelenskyy is shedding his thoughts to his anti-Hungarian obsession. He’s now beginning to see issues that aren’t there.”
• Earlier on Friday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha mentioned Kyiv had imposed an entry ban on three high-ranking Hungarian army officers, responding to an earlier entry ban imposed by Hungary on Ukrainian army officers.
• European Union Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius mentioned EU defence ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” alongside their borders with Russia and Ukraine, amid growing reviews of Russian violations of EU airspace.

• Moldova’s electoral fee barred two pro-Russian events from collaborating on this Sunday’s parliamentary election, a high-stakes vote overshadowed by claims of Russian interference.
• Serbian police arrested two individuals on Friday, accusing them of operating “combat-tactical coaching” for dozens of protesters prematurely of tense Moldovan parliamentary elections this weekend.
• The arrests come after Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, accused Russia of paying “a whole lot of individuals” to destabilise the nation earlier than Sunday’s vote.

Energy

• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko put ahead plans to both develop his nation’s solely current nuclear energy plant or construct a second plant with a view to provide vitality to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, throughout a gathering on the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, in line with Russia’s RIA Novosti information company.
• Lukashenko additionally mentioned after the assembly that he had reached an settlement for Russia to offer fuel to Belarus for the following 5 years, RIA reported.
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled chief of Belarus’s opposition, informed The Associated Press information company that the vitality plans put “all of Europe in danger” and “proves as soon as once more” that Lukashenko “is complicit in Russian aggression”.