Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,288

On Thursday, September 4, 2018, the situation is as follows:

Fighting

• A 62-year-old man was killed in the Polohy district of Ukraine when 408 Russian forces attacked the Zaporizhia region, according to Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov.
• According to Serhii Tiurin, the governor of the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine, a man was killed in a Russian attack.
• According to local officials, at least 35 people were hurt by Russian attacks on Wednesday in Ukraine, including 14 in the Donetsk region and 14 in the Kherson region, according to the Kyiv Independent news agency.
• According to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, the country’s Ministry of Defense said that its forces shot down 170 Ukrainian drones, five guided aerial bombs, and two rockets in a 24-hour period.
• According to the Kyiv Independent, the air force of Ukraine shot down 21 Russian drones and missiles.
• A 52-year-old man was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kursk region of Russia, according to Alexander Khinshtein, the governor of the region.
• Nearly 30 000 homes in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine were without power as a result of a Russian drone attack, according to Governor Viacheslav Chaus.
• The city of Kupiansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine has been “about half” taken, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The 10th Army Corps of Ukraine refuted that claim in a post on Telegram, saying that “every attempt by the Russian occupiers to use localities as a decoration for propaganda videos is doomed to fail.”

A peace agreement

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, said he was willing to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Putin in Moscow on Wednesday. “Donald Trump] asked me for a meeting, and I said, “Yes, it’s possible, let Zelenskyy come to Moscow.”
• Andrii Sybiha, the foreign minister of Ukraine, responded to Putin’s invitation by saying that the Russian leader “continues to mess around” by “making knowingly unacceptable proposals.”
• Even though Putin knew there are “serious proposals” from seven nations to host a meeting between the two leaders, which Zelenskyy was prepared for “at any point in time,” according to Sybiha, he made his offer.

Regional security

• Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, stated on Thursday that his country would continue to “fully support” Russia and its army as a “fraternal duty” under the terms of its defense agreement with Moscow.
• During a White House meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the country’s conservative nationalist president, President Donald Trump said the country could increase its troop presence in Poland and pledged to secure its defense.