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Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of deadly drone strikes connected civilian areas of their countries connected Monday (September 22, 2025) arsenic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipated “a precise aggravated week” of diplomacy astatine the U.N. General Assembly successful New York, wherever the Security Council was expected to sermon the much than three-year war.
Mr. Zelenskyy has tried to springiness momentum to a U.S.-led bid effort, offering a ceasefire and a acme gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow has taken contented with immoderate of the proposals, however, and an extremity to the bloodshed appears nary closer.
Additionally, planetary concerns person mounted precocious that the warring could dispersed beyond Ukraine's borders arsenic European countries rebuked Russia for what they said were provocations. The incidents person included Russian drones landing connected Polish ungraded and Russian combatant craft entering Estonian airspace.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said connected societal media that Russia was investigating NATO's governmental and subject effect and aiming to trim Western enactment for Ukraine by compelling countries to redirect resources toward the defence of confederation countries.
Calibrating however to respond to Russia was not easy, Mr. Rinkevics said connected Sunday. Russia was doing conscionable capable not to transverse a reddish line, but things could inactive spiral, helium added.
Estonian airspace violation
Russia's Defence Ministry denied immoderate Estonian airspace usurpation by its planes, and Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov connected Monday dismissed Estonia and NATO's claims arsenic “void, ungrounded and continuing an unbridled argumentation of inciting tensions and provoking confrontation.” Mr. Zelenskyy was owed to be the yearly high-level gathering astatine the U.N. General Assembly, wherever helium planned to enlistee enactment for efforts to halt Russia's invasion.
“The docket already includes astir 2 twelve meetings with leaders from antithetic countries, from each parts of the world,” Mr. Zelenskyy said connected Telegram precocious connected Sunday.
Mr. Zelenskyy said helium besides planned to conscionable with U.S. President Donald Trump, whose thrust for a bid woody aft taking bureau successful January has yielded nary progress.
“It is captious that this week we fortify the world's resoluteness for robust enactment — for without strength, bid volition not prevail,” Mr. Zelenskyy said.
He said that implicit the past week, Russia fired much than 1,500 onslaught drones, 1,280 glide bombs and 50 missiles of assorted types astatine Ukraine. More than 132,000 overseas components were recovered successful those weapons from dozens of countries, helium said.
Ukraine has campaigned for tighter sanctions connected Russia.
Attack connected Ukraine
Meanwhile, astatine slightest 7 Russian craft bombarded the confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia overnight, sidesplitting 3 radical and wounding 2 others, according to determination medication caput Ivan Fedorov.
The onslaught started astir 4:20 a.m. and lasted astir 40 minutes, Mr. Fedorov said. Residential buildings, buying malls, a parking batch and “critical infrastructure” were targeted, helium said.
“None of the sites had thing to bash with subject infrastructure,” Fedorov said.
The Ukrainian aerial unit said it stopped 132 retired of 141 onslaught and decoy drones launched by Russian forces overnight.
Attack by Ukrainian drones connected Russia
Russia made akin claims. The Moscow-appointed caput of Ukraine's Russia-occupied Crimea peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, said 3 radical were killed and 16 others were wounded precocious connected Sunday by Ukrainian drones that struck the fashionable abrogation edifice of Foros.
The Russian Defence Ministry said determination are nary subject facilities there.
In Russia's Belgorod borderline region, 3 radical were killed and different 10 were wounded by Ukrainian drone attacks connected Sunday, according to the determination governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The Defence Ministry said 114 Ukrainian drones were downed aboriginal Monday implicit respective Russian regions.
