Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,314
Here is how things stand on Tuesday, September 30 :
Fighting
- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a “righteous battle” in Ukraine. “Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard,” he said.
- President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Russian men aged 18 to 30 are to be drafted between October 1 and December 31.
- Ukraine’s military said it shot down a Russian helicopter using a remote-controlled drone near the village of Kotlyarivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
- A Russian drone attack on Monday night killed a family of four – including two young children – in the northeastern Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the regional military administration, wrote on the Telegram platform.
- Ukraine has recaptured more than 170 square kilometres (66 square miles) of territory near the eastern town of Dobropillia in recent counteroffensives, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Russian forces had lost nearly 3,200 soldiers in the operation.
- Popular Ukrainian war blog DeepState said Ukrainian forces had given up the village of Poltavka, east of Dobropillia in Donetsk.
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