Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,302 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events on day 1,302 of the War of Russia in Ukraine.

This is how things are on Thursday, September 18:

Struggle

• A Ukrainian drone has hit a car in the Belgorod border region of Russia, killing one person and hurting another, according to the governor of the region.

• The Ukrainian army lost more than 1,500 troops during the first -line struggle during the last day, the state state news agency of Russia reported, citing the Ministry of Defense. Ukraine has not confirmed the claim, and both parties have dedicated themselves to what independent analysts described as a non -surprising narrative war aimed at projecting military profits.

• The general personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that Russia had lost an estimate of 1,020 people, along with 360 unmanned aerial vehicles and 36 artillery systems, on the last day. Russia has not confirmed the claim.
• Meanwhile, the Russian forces also reached the Ukrainian railway infrastructure facilities, “storage and launch sites for long -range non -manned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment sites,” said Russian Ministry of Defense.
• The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on the social media platform X that, although Russia had prepared offensives in Sumy, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia this year, Russia has lost “so much labor” that “from now on, they lack the strength of the sensitive on a large scale.”

Military

• Speaking at a joint press conference with the president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, Zelenskyy said that missiles for Western air defense systems were among the first set of US weapons that are sent under the priority mechanism of the list of Ukraine requirements (Purl), which allows NATO states to pay the transfer of weapons and technology of origin of the United States.
• Ukraine has received more than $ 2 billion as part of the Purl scheme, said Zelenskyy, and the total is expected to increase up to $ 3.6 billion in October.

• Lithuanian prosecutors charged 15 people in relation to the detonations of DHL plots in logistics deposits in Europe last year, that prosecutors claim that they were organized by Russian citizens with links with Russian military intelligence.

• In what the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, called “a paradigm shift,” Denmark will obtain “long -range precision weapons” for the first time in response to the threat raised by Russia. Moscow ambassador to Copenhagen said the decision was “pure madness.”

Policy and diplomacy

• After a Putin birthday phone call, Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, thanked the Russian president, who referred as “my friend”, in X, writing that India is “ready to make all possible contributions for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.”

• King Charles seemed gently to push the president of the United States, Donald Trump, being firmly at the corner of Ukraine, during a luxurious ceremony for Trump during his visit to the United Kingdom, when the British monarch recalled the United States alliance and the United Kingdom during world wars I and II. “Today, as tyranny once more threat to Europe, we and our allies are together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and ensure peace,” said the king. The comments occurred in the midst of questions about whether Trump has exerted enough pressure on Putin to negotiate a peace agreement.

• Before the 80th week of the “United Nations General Assembly, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said she would meet with the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, but” it was not optimistic about the short -term progress in the peace process in Ukraine. ” A (do) something that would mean the occupation of large parts of Ukraine. “

• The Russian nationalists and the online bots quickly moved to the SOW division after the murder of the conservative figure of right Charlie Kirk, the Associated Press news agency reported, linking their death with the support of the United States to Ukraine and even spread the conspiracy theory that Ukraine was responsible for his death.

Economy and energy

• Ukraine and the US Finance Corporation of the United States said they would commit $ 75 million to a joint investment fund that is part of the kyiv Mineral Agreement with Washington. The agreement, which Trump has referred as “recovery” for Ukraine AID, was signed in May and will give the United States preferential access to the new Ukrainian minerals and natural resources licenses in exchange for postwar financial and military assistance.
• Ukraine has gas reserves to meet between 80 and 90 percent of its demand in next winter, but still needs up to $ 1 billion in additional fuel stored, according to the data.
• The Russian consumer price index increased by 0.04 percent in the week that ended on September 15, said the State Statistics Agency, compared to the growth of 0.1 percent in the previous week. The general price growth in the year to date is 4.08 percent, compared to 5.78 percent for the same period last year.