Here are the key events on day 1,294 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 10 Sep 202510 Sep 2025Here is how things stand on Wednesday, September 10:Fighting
A Russian air strike killed 24 elderly Ukrainians who were collecting pensions in eastern Ukraine’s Yarova village, about 24km (15 miles) from the city of Sloviansk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Kyiv’s allies to quickly boost supplies of air defence weapons to Ukraine and emphasised that Moscow interpreted a lack of stronger international sanctions on Russia as permission to continue its war.
Ukraine’s air defence units were trying to repel a Russian drone attack on Kyiv early on Wednesday, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said on the Telegram messaging app.
A man in Sochi, Russia, died as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack overnight, the region’s governor said.
Russia’s air defence units destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian state-owned RIA news agency reports.
Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries and export facilities have shut down at least 17 percent of Russia’s oil processing capacity, or 1.1 million barrels per day, according to calculations by the Reuters news agency.
Regional security
Poland’s air force has reportedly shot down hostile aerial objects, described as drones, that entered Polish airspace during a Russian overnight attack on Ukraine.
Polish and allied NATO aircraft, ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems were in the “highest state of readiness” in the early hours of Wednesday after Ukraine’s air force warned that Russian drones had entered Polish airspace.
If the drones are confirmed to be from Russia, the incident would mark the first time that Poland, a NATO member, has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since the Ukraine war started in 2022.
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