{"id":425250,"date":"2025-09-15T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425250\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:10:10","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1299-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425250\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,299 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events on day 1,299 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 15 Sep 202515 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p id=\"here-is-how-things-stand-on-saturday-september-13\">Here is how things stand on Sunday, September 14:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Russian forces killed two people in Ukraine\u2019s Kherson, including a 49-year-old woman who was found dead in the rubble of her home, authorities said, a day after Russian attacks killed six people across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian soldiers were advancing in the border areas of the northern Sumy region, and said Russian forces had suffered significant losses in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions along the 1,000km (620-mile) front line.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian forces said they had regained control of the village of Filia in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and reported bringing down a Russian ballistic missile and 164 drones of different types over the past day.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s military also claimed a strike on Russia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/14\/ukraine-targets-key-russian-oil-refinery-as-moscow-tests-hypersonic-missile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirishi oil refinery<\/a> in the northwestern Leningrad region, causing \u201cexplosions and a fire\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said the fire on the refinery\u2019s grounds was caused by \u201cfalling drone debris\u201d, after Russian forces shot down three Ukrainian drones. The fire was extinguished, and no one was injured, Drozdenko added.<\/li>\n<li>Drozdenko also said that two trains derailed in the Leningrad region due to \u201csabotage\u201d, with one driver dying of his injuries while being transported to a hospital.<\/li>\n<li>The death toll from an explosion on another railway line in Russia\u2019s Oryol region on Saturday has risen to three. All of the victims were Russian national guard troops, said Alexander Khinstein, the governor of the Kursk region.<\/li>\n<li>A Ukrainian military source claimed responsibility for the attack in Oryol, but not the deadly derailment in Leningrad, the AFP news agency reported.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian Ministry of Defence reported intercepting 361 Ukrainian drones and four aerial bombs and rockets from a US-made high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) in a 24-hour period, according to the TASS news agency.<\/li>\n<li>Five people were injured in a Ukrainian attack on the city of Horlivka, in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, Russian-appointed local official Ivan Prikhodko said in a post on Telegram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cyberattacks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia\u2019s Central Election Commission said that it experienced an \u201cunprecedented attack\u201d on its digital systems during elections on Sunday for dozens of regional officials, including 21 out of the country\u2019s 80 governors. Russian officials did not immediately comment on who they thought might be behind the alleged attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and Diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>United States President Donald Trump again said he was willing to impose sanctions on Russia, but said Europe must do more, including ceasing to buy oil from Russia.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEurope is buying oil from Russia. I don\u2019t want them to buy oil,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cAnd the sanctions\u2026 that they\u2019re putting on are not tough enough, and I\u2019m willing to do sanctions, but they\u2019re going to have to toughen up their sanctions commensurate with what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Romania summoned Moscow\u2019s envoy after a drone breached its airspace during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, informing him that \u201csuch recurring incidents contribute to the escalation and amplification of threats to regional security\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Annalena Baerbock, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, said that UN peacekeepers could play a role in supporting a peace solution to the war in Ukraine. \u201cIf a peace treaty is reached, it must be secured as best as possible,\u201d Baerbock told the Sunday edition of the Bild newspaper.<\/li>\n<li>Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for European troops to be deployed on Ukrainian soil in an interview with the Kyiv Independent. \u201cIf they don\u2019t want foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, I\u2019ve got a brilliant idea \u2013 they bog off,\u201d Johnson said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events on day 1,299 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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