Ukraine’s air defense neutralized 141 out of the 174 weapons used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine overnight on September 2. Hits by enemy missiles and combat drones were recorded at 16 locations.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), together with the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), foiled a terrorist attack that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was preparing against one of the leaders of a Russian opposition political nationalist movement who had traveled to Ukraine for Independence Day.
Russia’s total combat losses since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, have reached approximately 1,491,030 personnel, including 1,390 over the past day.
The number of people injured in the Russian strike on Odesa has risen to eight. A 24-story residential building, office buildings and two educational institutions were damaged.
Ukrainian Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy Vladyslav Vlasiuk held a series of meetings in the United States focused on advancing Senator Lindsey Graham’s bill to strengthen sanctions against Russia and Iran.
Russia is making no progress on the battlefield, so it is intensifying attacks on civilians in an effort to destabilize Ukrainian society and influence the country’s international partners by exploiting their fears.
The German government and relevant German authorities are convinced that Russian intelligence services were behind an attempted sabotage operation involving drones at Leipzig Airport.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has formed a Ukrainian delegation to participate in negotiations with Canada on preparations for concluding a Centennial Partnership Agreement between the two countries.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have narrowed the Russian bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskil River and complicated Russian logistics for its advance toward Kupiansk.
The United States will continue facilitating negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv and is calling for an immediate ceasefire and a diplomatic end to the war.