[Korrespondent] 23:29 "Heads of administrations" of the occupied Ukrainian territories announced the results of "referendums" on joining the Russian Federation: "LPR" - 98.42%, "DPR" - 99.23%, Zaporozhye region - 93.11%, Kherson - 87 .05%.
23:43 Zelensky said in an evening video message that no criminal actions of Russia will change anything for Ukraine: "We recognize the UN Charter, we recognize the basic principles of the coexistence of peoples and we will continue to act in order to protect normal life in Ukraine, Europe and world... This farce in the occupied territory cannot even be called an imitation of referendums. As for the front, I will say briefly and without details for now, although they will be good ones: we are moving forward and liberating our land."
“We knew in advance what they would draw instead of the result. Allegedly, the turnout, supposedly percentages. Even intelligence did not have to try hard. The agreed figures for this farce were thrown into the media. Russia is not even hiding. The only rational response to such audacity of the occupier "even more support for Ukraine. And I thank our partners who confirm such support: defense, financial, sanctions," the president stressed.
23:27 Zelensky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council, convened at the initiative of Ukraine, that after the "referendums" there is nothing to talk about with Putin: "Russia already despises the UN Charter. Russia is already violating any rules of this world. So it's only a matter of time, when it destroys this last international institution that can still function... Russia's recognition of pseudo-referendums as supposedly normal, the implementation of the so-called Crimean scenario and another attempt to annex Ukrainian territory will mean that there is nothing to talk about with this president of Russia. a move that puts him alone against all mankind."
22:58 A draft short-term budget resolution has been submitted to the US Congress providing for a $12.35 billion aid package for Ukraine, which is $600 million more than the White House's request, Arakhamia said from the scene. In particular, according to him, 7.8 billion dollars are allocated for defense, 4.5 billion dollars - for direct budgetary support to Ukraine. The document also renews the Administration's authority to transfer $3.7 billion worth of arms and equipment directly from US stockpiles to Ukraine in the new fiscal year.
22:37 "Referenda" in the occupied Ukrainian territories cannot be considered valid, said UN First Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed at a meeting of the Security Council.
22:24 Iranian combat drones, which the Russian invaders received at the end of summer, have begun massively attacking rear cities in Ukraine, in particular Odessa and Dnipro, in recent days. Most of them were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, but the rest hit the target. Previously, experts doubted the effectiveness of Iranian drones. How things are now - in the material Iranian UAVs are attacking cities .
21:51 US intelligence agencies warned the German federal government in the summer about the risk of possible attacks on Russian pipelines running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and Berlin, shortly before the incident, even suggested that this could happen, writes Spiegel.
21:24 The Polish Foreign Ministry, following the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, recommended its citizens to leave the territory of Russia.
21:22 Swedish seismologists believe that the Nord Stream incidents are related to explosions, not earthquakes, writes Reuters. In turn, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also said that the leaks in the Nord Stream are considered as the result of deliberate actions.
21:14 The Russians attacked Kharkov, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Mayor Igor Terekhov clarified that the Kholodnogorsk district was hit - according to preliminary information, an infrastructure facility was damaged, and there was no electricity in some areas of the city.
20:59 Over the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Soledar, Mayorsk, Kurdyumovka, Zaitsevo, Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Vyemka, Disputed, Pervomayskoye and Kamenka, the General Staff said in an evening summary .
20:36 Ukraine receives equipment from the United States to combat Iranian drones, produced jointly with Israel, with its consent, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgeny Korniychuk said on the air of the telethon: "Iranian drones are copies of American ones that were shot down by Iran in Syria. Of course ", the Israeli industry that works in this sector is, in fact, a joint venture with the United States. And, according to my information, it is from the United States that we are already getting what we need. Again, not without the consent of Israel."
20:20 Blinken confirmed that Washington has no objection to Kiev using Western weapons against regions that may "become" part of the Russian Federation after pseudo-referendums.
19:52 NATO does not recognize "referenda" in the occupied Ukrainian territories, they are a gross violation of international law, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. He also urged NATO countries to restock ammunition as soon as possible to continue supporting Ukraine.
19:31 From the very beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ukraine has been persistently asking its partners to provide air defense systems. One of the latest air defense systems in service with NATO countries is the NASAMS complex. More details - in the material How the complex will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
19:08 The EU border control agency Frontex recorded an increase in the number of Russians crossing the EU border after the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation. So, over the past week, almost 66,000 Russian citizens entered the EU, which is more than 30% more than the previous week. Most of them arrived in Finland and Estonia.
In total, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 1.3 million Russian citizens entered the EU through its land borders, while 1.27 million returned to Russia.
19:04 Ministers of Defense of the Visegrad Group countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic) agreed with further support for Ukraine and confirmed that the territorial integrity of Ukraine is their common interest. At the meeting, it was decided to focus on demining Ukrainian territory in the near future.
All countries, except Hungary, confirmed their readiness for further military assistance to Ukraine. Thus, the Minister of Defense of Slovakia confirmed that his country could transfer decommissioned MiG-29 fighters if it receives compensation for them. Among other areas of support, representatives of the Visegrad Group named assistance in the repair of military equipment and the rehabilitation of Ukrainian servicemen.
18:51 The Cabinet of Ministers has completely banned the export of goods from Ukraine to the customs territory of Russia. The resolution will be valid until the termination or cancellation of martial law and the termination of unfriendly actions of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
18:45 At the Upper Lars border checkpoint between North Ossetia and Georgia, summonses will be handed over to everyone who is subject to conscription, said the head of North Ossetia, Sergei Menyailo. He specified that this would also apply to "citizens who are registered with the military not only in North Ossetia, but also in other regions of the country."
18:13 Ukraine expects two NASAMS batteries from the United States - these are 16 missile launchers. Now they are preparing to transfer them to the Ukrainian military, said Colonel Yuriy Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. One NASAMS battery will be able to protect entire squares or a region - each installation can be placed at a distance of up to 25 km. The mobile anti-aircraft battery consists of 8-12 launchers, depending on the modification, 3-8 AN / TPQ-64 radar stations, two fire control systems, charging and command vehicles.
18:07 The House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada unanimously adopted a statement condemning the fake "referenda" in the occupied Ukrainian territories. The House of Commons confirms that the territory of Ukraine is as recognized at the time of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, and includes Crimea and Donbas illegally occupied by Russia in 2014.
In addition, the Canadian deputies called on the government of the country to provide additional support to Ukraine until all territories are returned under the sovereign control of the Ukrainian government, including by strengthening sanctions against Russia and providing additional military, humanitarian and financial assistance.
17:48 Danilov on negotiations with Moscow: "Ukraine has never been against negotiations with the Russian Federation ... regarding indemnities and reparations. The longer the Kremlin regime delays these negotiations, the worse the conditions and the greater the amount. The tasks of de-occupying Ukraine and defragmenting Russia will be completed in full, according to plans and schedules.
17:43 In Mariupol, mobilization will start on October 10, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said referring to the "documents" of the occupation administration. They also deal with the reservation of emergency hospital workers at the time of mobilization.
17:38 About 800 Azov residents remain in captivity, of which more than 40 are women, there are pregnant women, Olga Kravchenko, head of the department for working with prisoners and their families of the Azov Patronage Service, said on Suspіlny.
17:36 Among the invaders killed in Ukraine, slightly less than 40% were representatives of non-Slavic ethnic groups. According to the GUR MOU, the top five regions with the highest number of victims included the republics of Dagestan and Buryatia, Krasnodar Territory, Bashkortostan and Volgograd Region. At the same time, the number of dead soldiers from poor regions is much higher than from developed ones.
According to Ukrainian military intelligence, after Putin signed the decree on mobilization, the mortality map in the regions will change significantly. Summons are received by thousands of representatives of the intelligentsia and private business from the central regions of Russia and industrial giants. If working professions are still provided with deferrals from conscription, then it is the Russian intelligentsia that will die in the war in Ukraine.
17:25 At a meeting on October 4, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation will consider the possibility of the "DPR", "LPR", Kherson and Zaporozhye regions joining Russia with a positive outcome of the "referendums", speaker Valentina Matvienko said.
17:16 The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry asks its citizens to urgently leave the territory of the Russian Federation, using all possible means of transportation, due to the increasingly difficult situation.
16:41 Podolyak is sure that Russia itself caused the accident on the Nord Stream: “Large-scale“ gas leak ”from SP-1 is nothing more than a terrorist attack planned by Russia and an act of aggression in the direction of the EU. Russia wants to destabilize the economic situation in Europe and cause panic before winter. The best response to a tyrant and an investment in security are tanks for Ukraine. Especially German ones…"
16:29 Russian media publish the first "interim results" of pseudo-referendums on joining the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. "For" entry into Russia allegedly voted from 97% to 98% of the population.
16:24 The occupiers are closing Mariupol for exits in order to carry out forced mobilization in the city, the mayor of the city Vadym Boychenko said: "We see from the statistics that if a week ago about 80-120 people left for Ukraine a day, then over the past day they left There are eight people in Mariupol, which means that Mariupol is being shut down." The mayor urged men of military age to leave the city as soon as possible by any means.
15:59 The community of railway workers of Belarus reported that a set of measures is being taken to check the country's railway infrastructure. The Belaruska Gayun monitoring group believes that these actions may indicate preparations for receiving military trains from the Russian Federation.
15:25 The Federation Council will not hold extraordinary meetings to adopt laws on the "entry" into Russia of new subjects, the next one will be held on October 4, according to Senator Andrey Klishas.
15:18 The French Foreign Ministry announced that French investigators would work in Izyum: "The investigators of the National Gendarmerie have just arrived in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna presented them to Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin. Tomorrow they will be deployed in the Izyum region."
15:11 Russia purposefully launched Shahed-136 Iranian kamikaze drones in Uman to attack Hasidic Jews who are now celebrating Rosh Hashanah in the city, Babel reports, citing sources in the special services. According to them, over the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down more than ten Shahed-136s in the south of Ukraine. Some of these drones were launched from the territory of the occupied Crimea and sent to Uman. The Russians wanted to get into the Hasidic religious sites with a large crowd of people.
14:55 In Mariupol, they began to mobilize local residents. According to the city council, the occupiers refer to the fact that the city will be part of Russia according to the results of the "referendum". The department calls on Mariupol residents to leave the city while there is such an opportunity.
14:26 Residents of the occupied Energodar are forced to "vote" in a pseudo-referendum, and those who refuse are promised "mobilization". According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the occupiers forbade residents from leaving the territory controlled by Ukraine and generally outside the city. They especially control the workers of the operational shifts of the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
The local population sits at home, trying not to go out unless absolutely necessary. Military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces are patrolling the streets with "ballots". They point weapons at everyone they meet and indicate where to put a tick. Frequent cases of coercion to vote for long-dead relatives have been recorded.
14:10 Soldiers of the 92nd brigade reported that in the Kharkiv region, in the forest near Kupyansk, they captured a resident of the Rostov region who was mobilized five days ago. He deserted from his military unit and tried to return to the Russian Federation, but got lost.
13:37 In the Baltic Sea, three strings of the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream have been destroyed, a gas leak has been noticed, the operator reports. The Russian authorities have already said that "targeted sabotage" could have caused the destruction. It is not yet possible to estimate the timing of the restoration of the gas transmission infrastructure.
13:32 Non-single facts of the export of people from the Kharkiv region to Russia - mostly children - are being confirmed, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, now the local authorities, together with the Ministry of Reintegration, are working to return Ukrainian children home.
He also said that the Ukrainian military continues to liberate the Kharkiv region from the invaders. Fighting is going on on the left bank of the Oskol River, the Russians are losing their logistical routes.
12:54 Peskov said that Russia "remains ready" to negotiate with Ukraine, "but the situation and conditions are changing," while the principle of the goals of the "military operation" is preserved.
12:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have established control over the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Kharkiv region , the head of the UVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said. According to him, about 6% of the territory of the Kharkiv region is still occupied.
11:59 The military commissar of the Magadan region of the Russian Federation was dismissed "due to errors during partial mobilization," Russian media write. Earlier in Magadan there was a series of scandals with mobilization.
11:57 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that she had arrived in Kiev: "Good morning, Ukraine, I'm glad to be back. France is there to support Ukraine."
11:39 Russia is deploying a mobilization point of the military registration and enlistment office at the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia reported. A convoy of Russian military equipment is also sent there. At the same time, the Russians were allowed to cross this checkpoint on foot, although it was not intended for this. We made this decision due to a significant increase in the number of light vehicles moving towards Georgia. On the eve of the Upper Lars was allowed to cross on bicycles and scooters.
11:12 Washington still sees no signs that China is preparing to facilitate the Russian invasion of Ukraine or help Russia bypass sanctions, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
10:58 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) also predicts that Russia may announce the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine before October 1. This could be done in order to forcibly send Ukrainian citizens to war against the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of the autumn conscription campaign, analysts say.
10:36 Since September 21, when "partial mobilization" was announced in the Russian Federation, 98 thousand Russians have entered Kazakhstan, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Tokayev said he intends to discuss this issue with the Russian authorities.
10:12 British intelligence predicts that Putin will announce the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine on September 30 during an address to the chambers of the Russian parliament. Russian leaders hope that the announcement of the annexation of territories will be seen as justification for a "special military operation" and bolster patriotic support for the conflict. But those goals are likely to be undermined by growing domestic awareness of Russia's recent battlefield setbacks and worries about partial mobilization, analysts say.
10:08 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 27th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Donetsk directions.
- personnel - about 57,750 (+550) people liquidated,
- tanks - 2306 (+16),
- armored fighting vehicles - 4881 (+24),
- artillery systems - 1378 (+9),
- MLRS - 331 (+1),
- air defense systems - 175 (+3),
- aircraft - 261 (+1),
- helicopters - 224 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 977 (+7),
- cruise missiles - 241 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 3730 (+19),
- special equipment - 131 (+0).
09:59 Medvedev said that if Russia is "forced" to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, NATO will not directly intervene and "swallow the use of any weapon in the current conflict." He also said that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons "if necessary, if we or our allies are attacked using this type of weapon. Or if the very existence of our state is threatened by aggression using conventional weapons."
09:52 In the Odessa region this morning, air defense shot down three Shahed-136 Iranian kamikaze drones, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
09:28 In Kupyansk, as a result of yesterday's shelling, a church school, an outbuilding and a store were on fire, five people were hospitalized with injuries. In Pervomaisky, the Russians hit residential buildings and outbuildings with a rocket, and found fragments of Iskander on the spot. The bodies of seven people were found under the rubble. This morning in Dvurechnaya, the driver of the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance was killed during shelling, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA.
09:24 The occupiers in the Lugansk region began to call for doctors, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that in Novopskov, in order to increase the turnout at the pseudo-referendum, two soldiers per person go home, and the “observer” from the Netherlands admitted that she had lived in Russia before the war. According to Gaidai, ammunition depots and places where Russians gathered were destroyed in almost every community in the region.
09:15 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, three civilians were killed - two in Bakhmut and one in Khromovo. Another 13 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:07 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said that his country will strengthen support for Ukraine due to mobilization in the Russian Federation and "referendums" in the occupied territories: "More weapons, more sanctions, more isolation of Russia."
09:03 In Slavyansk, as a result of enemy shelling, one civilian was wounded, several districts were affected, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:55 In the Russian Federation, they can create the Crimean Federal District, which will include the peninsula itself, as well as the "LDNR" and the occupied territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, sources in the Federation Council, the Presidential Administration and the "government of Crimea" told the Russian newspaper Vedomosti. The former general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin should head the district.
08:33 In the "DPR", "LPR", in the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the final stage of "referendums" is taking place today. For four days, "voting" was held in the adjacent territories, and today from 8:00 to 16:00 you can "vote" at the polling stations. The occupying "authorities" say that the "turnout" for the first four days was 86.89% in the "DPR", 83.61% in the "LPR", 66.43% in the Zaporozhye region, and 63.58% in the Kherson region . It is expected that the preliminary results of the "referendum" will be announced on September 27-28, the final - within five days.
Meanwhile, local residents and legitimate Ukrainian authorities on the ground report massive coercion to "vote", armed men go door to door and force people to fill out ballots. Also, for the "picture", the occupiers bring extras supposedly "voting", teenagers aged 13-17 are also attracted to participate in "referendums".
07:55 During the day, units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Soledar, Kurdyumovka, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Bakhmut, Kamenka, Pervomayskoye, the General Staff reports in the morning report . At the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the situation remains tense: plant employees do not want to cooperate with the enemy and are trying to leave the occupied territories. The occupied part of the Kherson region is completely closed for entry and exit.
05:26 At night, the Russians fired rockets at infrastructure facilities in Zaporozhye, data on the victims and destruction are being specified, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
04:43 Nikolaev twice during the night was subjected to powerful shelling. Currently, damage is known to a number of civilian facilities, in particular residential buildings and shops, as well as the water supply network, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.