Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,313

On Monday, September 29, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

In an attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Sunday night, Russian forces killed four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured 13 others, according to Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the country’s military administration, in a post on Telegram. Staff and patients at a cardiology facility were also killed, Tkachenko continued.
• According to Polish news outlet RMF24, the attack also damaged the Polish Embassy in Kyiv, according to a spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pawel Wronski.
• At least 40 people were hurt in the country’s Zaporizhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, and Odesa, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, who wrote on X.
• According to the Polish army, the Russian assault prompted military responses in neighboring Poland, where fighter jets were deployed early on Sunday as Russia attacked targets in western Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s air force reported on Sunday that Russia fired 595 exploding drones and decoys, and 48 missiles, of which 566 were shot down or jammed by Ukrainian forces.
• The “military-industrial complex of Ukraine” was targeted by Russia’s Ministry of Defense with a “massive strike” using “drones, sea-based weapons, and high-precision long-range air, radars, and unmanned aerial vehicles]” according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
• According to Russian Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, a civilian who was injured in a drone attack on Novostroyevka-Pervaya in the Belgorod region of Russia, a civilian died in a hospital after his injuries, according to TASS news agency.
• According to TASS, Russian forces shot down 230 Ukrainian drones, six guided aerial bombs, and six rockets in a 24-hour period, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.

Regional security

Zelenskyy demanded that Russian tankers be outlawed from the Baltic Sea or at least their shadow fleet, saying “intelligence now indicates that the Russians are using tankers to launch and operate drones against European countries.”
• After drones were spotted overnight at several military installations, Danish authorities announced on Sunday that the country was banning civilian drone flights. Days later, several Danish airports were temporarily closed as a result of drone sightings.

diplomacy and politics

With 90% of votes counted in Sunday’s parliamentary election, Moldova’s ruling, pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won the favor, according to the electoral commission of the country.
• Russian-based Telegram messaging app founder Pavel Durov claimed on Sunday that French intelligence had contacted him through an intermediary to censor some Moldovan voices in exchange for funding his court case in France.
• The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs noted in a post on X that Durov had made similar accusations about France attempting to influence politics in Romania earlier this year, during the election season. Moldova is now “after Romania.” The ministry wrote that Durov enjoys making accusations while elections are in progress.