Here are the key events on day 1,290 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025Here is how things stand on Saturday, September 6:Fighting
Russian forces took control of the settlement of Markove in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the Ministry of Defence.
Ukraine attacked Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery, said the commander of Kyiv’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, as well as an oil depot in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.
Debris fell on the grounds of an industrial enterprise after the Ukrainian attack, said Ryazan’s regional governor, Pavel Malkov, with air defence and electronic warfare systems shooting down eight drones in the region, causing no casualties.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “thousands” of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under post-war security guarantees agreed this week with the so-called “coalition of the willing”, led by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would regard foreign troops in Ukraine as legitimate targets. “If some troops appear there, especially now, during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for destruction,” Putin told an economic forum in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok.
Putin also said that if an agreement is reached on “long-term peace” with Ukraine, then he did “not see any sense” in the presence of foreign troops “on the territory of Ukraine, full stop”.
North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Moscow’s forces are not being deployed on Ukrainian territory, only on Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.
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