Here are the key events on day 1,314 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 30 Sep 202530 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Tuesday, September 30 :Fighting
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a “righteous battle” in Ukraine. “Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard,” he said.
President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Russian men aged 18 to 30 are to be drafted between October 1 and December 31.
Ukraine’s military said it shot down a Russian helicopter using a remote-controlled drone near the village of Kotlyarivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
A Russian drone attack on Monday night killed a family of four – including two young children – in the northeastern Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the regional military administration, wrote on the Telegram platform.
Ukraine has recaptured more than 170 square kilometres (66 square miles) of territory near the eastern town of Dobropillia in recent counteroffensives, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Russian forces had lost nearly 3,200 soldiers in the operation.
Popular Ukrainian war blog DeepState said Ukrainian forces had given up the village of Poltavka, east of Dobropillia in Donetsk.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence system intercepted four HIMARS rockets and three Neptune missiles fired by Ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours.
The ministry also said Russian forces struck Ukrainian aviation repair enterprises and several temporary Ukrainian military bases, and took control of the Shandriglovo and Zarichne settlements, both northeast of the city of Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region.
Moscow’s air defence forces intercepted and shot down 78 Ukrainian drones in the Russian regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Moscow and Kursk from Sunday night to early Monday, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.
A fire ignited by a Ukrainian drone attack killed a child and his grandmother in a town outside Moscow, regional authorities said.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported 136 combat clashes with Russian troops over the past 24 hours up to Monday.
Ukrainian air defence forces reported shooting down and suppressing 23 drones in northern and eastern Ukraine and recorded nine drones hitting targets at eight locations.
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Pla …