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Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 289 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here are the key events of day 1 289 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Posted on September 5, 2025
Here’s how things are on Friday September 5:
Struggle
- Russian drones killed three people – two men and a woman – and injured three others in the village of Khotimlia in northeast Ukraine, the Kharkiv region, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
- A Russian missile strike on a mission of humanitarianism sponsored by the Danish near the Ukrainian city in the north of Chernihiv killed two people, according to Governor Viacheslav Chaus. The other three were injured in the attack, which, according to Chaus, had deliberately targeted the Danish refugee council team. All the victims were Ukrainian.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said it destroyed a launch site for long -range drones with an Iskander missile strike in the same attack in the Chernihiv region.
- Russian troops took control of the village of Novoselivka in the south-east of the southeast region of Dnipropetrovsk, said the Russian Defense Ministry.
- Ukraine wants to see improved performances of interceptor drones to counter Russian air attacks more effectively, said the best Ukrainian military commander Oleksandr Syrskii.
Coalition of will
- Twenty-six nations have undertaken to provide post-war security guarantees to Ukraine, which will include an international force on land and sea and in the air, French president Emmanuel Macron said that after the “Coalition of the Willing” group met for a Paris Allied Paris summit to discuss these guarantees.
- “The day the conflict stops, the security guarantees will be deployed,” said Macron at a press conference at the Elysee Palace, alongside the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Macron initially declared that 26 nations – which he did not name – would unfold in Ukraine. But he later said that some countries would provide guarantees while remaining outside Ukraine, for example, helping to train and equip kyiv’s forces.
- Zelenskyy said after the meeting that “we work which countries will participate in which security components”. He added that “26 countries have agreed to provide security guarantees. Today, for the first time in a long time, it is the first serious and very specific substance ”.
- Germany is ready to intensify the financing and training of Ukrainian forces, but will decide on new military commitments, in particular the deployment of troops in Ukraine, only after the clarification of broader conditions, said a government spokesman.
- Ukraine must become a steel porcupine, indigestible for the present and future attackers, said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after the meeting.
- Macron also said that he, his colleagues European leaders and Zelenskyy, had made an appeal to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, after the summit, and the American contributions to the guarantees would be finalized in the coming days.
- Macron said that there was “no doubt” about Washington’s desire to participate in the security guarantees offered to Ukraine, adding that the relevant planning work should be finalized with Washington.
- During this call, Trump told European leaders that Europe had to stop buying Russian oil which, according to him, helped Moscow to finance his war against Ukraine, said a White House official, having taken a combative tone in the midst of slow diplomatic progress to end the fighting.
- “The president also stressed that European leaders were to exert economic pressure on China to finance the war efforts of Russia,” said the official.
Sanctions
- The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on 11 other people and entities affiliated with the Russian state, targeting the people involved in what it said was Moscow’s attempts to deport and indoctrinate the children of Ukraine.
- The former president and current vice-president of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said that Russia would take more Ukrainian territory and go after British property after London had spent around 1.3 billion dollars collected from Russian assets frozen on weapons for Ukraine.
- Russia expelled an Estonian diplomat in a reciprocal decision, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In mid-August, Estonia expelled a Russian diplomat for alleged violations of sanctions and other offenses against the state.
- Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft, has concluded an additional agreement on the supply of 2.5 million metric tonnes of oil in China via Kazakhstan, said Russian Minister of Russian energy, Russian Minister Sergei Tsivilev.

Regional security
- North Korean leader Kim Jong One said that his country would “fully support” the Russian army as a “fraternal duty”, and Russian president Vladimir Putin called the bonds of the two “special” countries, reported the North-Korian state media KCNA.
- Putin would also have sent Kim a message of congratulations for the day of the North Korea Foundation.
- “According to KCNA and North Korea,” your fight for your fight forces to release the Kursk territories from the invaders is a symbol distinct from friendship and mutual aid between Russia and North Korea “, Putin’s message reads, according to KCNA. “I am convinced that we will continue to work together to consolidate the full strategic partnership between our two countries,” said Putin.



