Here are the key events on day 1,288 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025Here is how things stand on Thursday, September 4:Fighting
Russian forces launched 408 attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, killing a 62-year-old man in the Polohy district, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
A man was killed in a Russian attack on the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine, the region’s governor, Serhii Tiurin, said.
Russian attacks injured at least 35 people across Ukraine on Wednesday, including 14 people in the Donetsk area and 14 people in the Kherson region, local officials said, according to the Kyiv Independent news outlet.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that its forces shot down 170 Ukrainian drones, five guided aerial bombs and two rockets in a 24-hour period, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 430 Russian drones and 21 missiles, the Kyiv Independent reported.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed a 52-year-old man in the village of Belitsa, in Russia’s Kursk region, the region’s governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said.
A Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region left nearly 30,000 homes without power, Governor Viacheslav Chaus said.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed its troops have captured “about half” of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukraine’s 10th Army Corps rejected that claim in a post on Telegram, saying: “All such attempts by the Russian occupiers to use localities as a decoration for propaganda videos are doomed to fail.”
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, centre, attends a meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Ze …
