{"id":236131,"date":"2025-09-18T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236131\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:28:20","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1302-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236131\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,302 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events on day 1,302 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Sep 202518 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>Here is how things stand on Thursday, September 18:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">A Ukrainian drone has struck a car in Russia\u2019s Belgorod border region, killing one person and injuring another, according to the region\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Ukrainian army lost more than 1,500 troops during front-line fighting over the past day, reported Russia\u2019s state TASS news agency, citing the Ministry of Defence. Ukraine has not confirmed the claim, and both sides have engaged in what independent analysts described as unsurprising narrative warfare aimed at projecting military gains.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said Russia had lost an estimated 1,020 people, along with 360 unmanned aerial vehicles and 36 artillery systems, in the past day. Russia has not confirmed the claim.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Russian forces also hit Ukrainian railway infrastructure facilities, \u201cstorage and launch sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment sites\u201d, the Russian Defence Ministry said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media platform X that although Russia had prepared offensives in Sumy, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia this year, Russia has lost \u201cso much manpower\u201d that \u201cas of now, they lack the strength for large-scale offensives.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Military<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Speaking at a joint news conference with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, Zelenskyy said missiles for Western air defence systems were among the first set of US weapons being sent under the Priority Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism, which allows NATO states to pay for the transfer of United States-sourced weapons and technology.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine has received more than $2bn so far as part of the PURL scheme, Zelenskyy said, with the total expected to rise to up to $3.6bn in October.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lithuanian prosecutors charged 15 people in connection with detonations of DHL parcels at logistics depots in Europe last year, which prosecutors allege were organised by Russian citizens with ties to Russian military intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>In what Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called \u201ca paradigm shift\u201d, Denmark will procure \u201clong-range precision weapons\u201d for the first time in response to the threat posed by Russia. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to Copenhagen said the decision was \u201cpure madness\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After a birthday phone call from Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the Russian president \u2013 who he referred to as \u201cmy friend\u201d \u2013 on X, writing that India is \u201cready to make all possible contributions towards a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">King Charles seemed to gently nudge US President Donald Trump on standing firm in Ukraine\u2019s corner, during a lavish ceremony for Trump during his visit to the United Kingdom, when the British monarch recalled the US-UK alliance during World Wars I and II. \u201cToday, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and secure peace,\u201d the king said. The comments came amid questions over whether Trump has put sufficient pressure on Putin to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ahead of the 80th United Nations General Assembly \u201chigh-level\u201d week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he would meet with Russian and Ukrainian delegations but was \u201cnot optimistic about the short-term progress in the peace process in Ukraine\u201d. The two sides\u2019 positions are too different, he said, with Ukraine driven by \u201ca legitimate interest to preserve its territory\u201d and Russia \u201cdetermined to [do] something that would mean the occupation of large parts of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Russian nationalists and online bots moved quickly to sow division after the killing of conservative right-wing figure Charlie Kirk, The Associated Press news agency reported, tying his death to US support for Ukraine and even spreading the conspiracy theory that Ukraine was responsible for his death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3958605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-09-17T210100Z_768749014_RC2WTGA1ACGN_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-BRITAIN-1758144729.jpg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump and King Charles speak on day one of Trump's second state visit to the UK.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>US President Donald Trump and King Charles speak on day one of Trump\u2019s second state visit to the UK [Yui Mok\/Reuters]Economy and energy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukraine and the US International Development Finance Corporation said they would each commit $75m to a joint investment fund that is part of Kyiv\u2019s minerals deal with Washington. The deal \u2013 which Trump has referred to as \u201cpayback\u201d for Ukraine aid \u2013 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/1\/what-is-in-the-us-ukraine-minerals-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed<\/a> in May and will give the US preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals and natural resources licences in exchange for post-war financial and military assistance.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine has gas reserves to meet about 80 to 90 percent of its demand for the upcoming winter, but still needs up to $1bn in additional fuel stockpiled, data show.<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s consumer price index rose by 0.04 percent in the week ending September 15, the state statistics agency said, compared with 0.1 percent growth in the previous week. Overall price growth in the year to date stands at 4.08 percent, compared with 5.78 percent for the same period last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events on day 1,302 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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