Firefighters battle a blaze at an energy facility hit by a Russian strike in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine, September 3, 2025

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UPDATE 1753 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Paris.

He was welcomed at the Élysée Palace by French President Emmanuel Macron, ahead of Thursday’s talks with European leaders.

Macron said the leaders are building on preparatory work by military planners, with Europe “ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine and the Ukrainians” once Russia’s invasion is halted.

“The question now is to determine the sincerity of Russia and its successive commitments on peace talks made to the US,” he said.

Zelensky and the Europeans will speak with Donald Trump after tomorrow’s session.

UPDATE 1736 GMT:

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has responded to Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that President Volodymyr Zelensky travel to Moscow to meet him.

UPDATE 1732 GMT:

The UK has sanctioned 11 Russian officials and organizations involved in the Kremlin’s forced deportations and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.

Ukraine has documented the abduction of almost 20,000 juveniles. Officials say the actual number could be up to 300,000.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said, “The Kremlin’s policy of forced deportations, indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children is despicable, and demonstrates the depths of depravity that President Putin will reach to erase Ukrainian language, culture and identity.”

UPDATE 1722 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has attended the Ukraine-Nordic-Baltic States summit in Copenhagen today.

Alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, he spoke about the need for air defense assets and further support via the PURL program, in which NATO allies buy US weapons and transfer them to Ukraine.

He emphasized the necessity of reliable security guarantees with the US “on our side in this crucial period”, noting that the American have the most advance air defense systems.

He also noted the importance of further sanctions on Russia, with no sign of Vladimir Putin halting attacks more than two weeks after his meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska.

He and European leaders, meeting in Paris tomorrow, “will try to connect with President Trump, and we’ll speak about it”.

Frederiksen said:

Maybe the most important part of future security guarantees in Ukraine is ensuring that you have a strong army – a well-equipped and trained Ukrainian army.

We have said from the beginning of this war that you are not only fighting your own war, you are fighting for the entire future of Europe. And therefore we have to continue [support].

UPDATE 1710 GMT:

Eight civilians have been murdered and six injured by a Russian artillery strike on the town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

The shelling between 10:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. killed the five men and three women at home, on the street, and inside a store.

A residential house, apartment buildings, a store, and several shopping pavilions were damaged.

UPDATE 1256 GMT:

At least two civilians have been murdered and at least 35 injured, including children, by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day.

The Russians launched 502 drones and 24 missiles (see Original Entry).

In the Zaporizhzhia region in the south, a 62-year-old man was killed. In the Khmelnytskyi region in the west, a resident was slain amid damage to residential buildings, an educational institution, a municipal enterprise, garages, and public transport infrastructure.

Casualties were also reported in the Kirovohrad, Donetsk, Sumy, and Kherson regions.

UPDATE 0714 GMT:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has demanded legal recognition of four Ukrainian regions — Donetsk and Luhansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south — and the Crimea peninsula as part of Russia.

He said in an interview with an Indonesian newspaper:

In order for peace to be lasting, the new territorial realities that emerged after Crimea, Sevastopol, the DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic], LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic], Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions joined the Russian Federation as a result of referendums held there must be recognized and formalized in an international legal manner.

Lavrov’s declaration returns to a Kremlin position which is even more extreme than that set out by Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump in Alaska on August 15.

Putin insisted on all of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including areas held by Ukraine. However, in return for this, he said Russia would accept only the parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson which it currently occupied.

Lavrov also repeated the Kremlin’s ultimata of “eradicating the root causes of the conflict”, its terminology for prohibiting Ukraine membership in NATO; a weakened, demilitarized, and “neutral” Kyiv; and the lfiting of all sanctions on Moscow.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Donald Trump has said that he is “very disappointed” in Vladimir Putin, but has taken no action over Russia’s invasion and mass killing in Ukraine.

Interviewed on a US radio show, Trump proclaimed, I’m very disappointed in President Putin, I can say that, and we’ll be doing something to help people live.”

He did not say what that assistance is, as he rambled:

It’s not a question of Ukraine. It’s help people live. 7,000 are dying every single week — soldiers mostly — but 7,000 people. And if I can help to stop that, I think I have an obligation to do that.

I’m very disappointed in him. He and I have always had a great relationship. Very disappointed.

Trump’s initial 50-day “deadline”, which he declared in July, for an end to Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians has now passed.

In August, he reduced the time to 10 days. However, after he hosted Putin in Alaska on August 15, he never again referred to the deadline.

Zelensky: “Russian Brazenness Keeps Growing”

In his nightly address to the nation, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of the latest Russian drone strikes across the country:

The brazenness of the Russians keeps growing – they are attacking Ukraine more and more often in broad daylight with dozens of strike drones….

Yesterday, the Russians literally denied what President Trump said about the leaders’ meeting that is needed to end the war.

Zelensky noted, as Putin “keeps spinning his tales – as if he is not responsible for the war”, that “we see another buildup of Russian forces in some sectors of the front”.

Russia Fires 526 Drones and Missiles Overnight

Russia targeted regions in western and central Ukraine in overnight drone and missile strikes.

Air defenses downed 430 of 502 drones and 21 of 24 missiles. The other munitions hit 14 locations, including energy infrastructure.

In Znamianka in the Kirovohrad region in central Ukraine, five people were injured and 28 buildings destroyed.

In the Chernihiv region in the north, almost 30,000 households are without power.

Explosions were also heard in Kyiv around 5:30 a.m.