Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:09 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, where, in particular, he heard Syrsky's report on the front and the operation in the Kursk region. "The Pokrovsk direction is a decision to strengthen positions. Active actions in the Kursk region continue to replenish the exchange fund for our state," the president said.
In addition, the meeting discussed the possibilities of making the use of existing air defense systems in Ukraine more effective and work on obtaining additional protection. There were also important reports on various types of drones.
"And, of course, we continue to work with all partners for stronger solutions to support our defense - for long-range solutions that could destroy a significant part of Russian ballistics before they even start. This is one of the key issues of this war in principle. The issues of our long-range capabilities and the corresponding permissions from partners, long-range shells and missiles that we could use. Russian strikes will be impossible if we can destroy the occupier's launchers where they are, and Russian military airfields and logistics," the president emphasized.
21:25 In Poltava, the number of injured has increased to 271, another 51 people have died, and people remain under the rubble , Zelensky reported.
21:21 Zelensky told NBC News that Ukraine intends to keep control of part of the Kursk region, since it is an integral part of the "victory plan" to end the war. The president explained that in this way, Kiev wants to force Putin to sit down at the negotiating table. "We do not need their land. We do not want to bring our Ukrainian way of life there," Zelensky emphasized. He added that Kiev will present its plan to international partners, including the United States.
At the same time, Zelensky refused to say whether Ukraine plans to try to seize even more Russian territory: "I won't say, sorry, I can't talk about it. It's like the beginning of our Kursk operation."
21:02 Germany plans to provide Ukraine with six more IRIS-T air defense systems, Reuters writes. According to the publication, the deliveries are part of Berlin's plan to transfer a total of 12 IRIS-T batteries, four of which have already been delivered.
20:23 Zelensky reported that he had a meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. The main focus was on issues of strengthening nuclear safety in Ukraine, ensuring continuous monitoring of not only the state of nuclear power plants, but also critical substations.
20:06 Russians shot three Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Toretsk direction, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. According to Telegram channels, three soldiers from one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades came out of the basement of a house with their hands up when the enemy came very close to them. The occupiers put them face down on the ground, after which they were almost immediately shot in the back.
19:10 Norway will transfer 570 million Norwegian kroner (about 48 million euros) to the International Fund for Ukraine for the purchase of drones and air defense systems, the country's government announced.
18:47 Zelensky reported that he had a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: they discussed the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including additional air defense systems and armored vehicles, and work within the framework of the drone coalition. The Ukrainian president also called on the head of the Canadian government "to strengthen advocacy among partners to provide Ukraine with permission and the appropriate means to strike military targets on the territory of the aggressor country." The parties also discussed preparations for the upcoming thematic conference in Canada on the item of the Peace Formula "Release of prisoners and deportees."
18:24 As of 18:00, 51 people are known to have died and more than 200 injured in Poltava as a result of the Russian attack , the Prosecutor General's Office reported. One of the buildings of the Institute of Communications, a hospital and nearby houses were partially destroyed.
Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin reported that 49 people were killed and 219 injured as a result of the strike, and search and rescue operations are ongoing. At the same time, he assured that the educational process was underway at the institution at the time of the strike, and no formations were taking place, as previously reported by Telegram channels. "At 9:08, the alarm sounded, everyone went down to the shelter, a few minutes after the alarm was announced, explosions were heard. The details of the tragedy in Poltava are being studied. It is now known that no formations or other events were taking place at the time of the strike," Lazutkin emphasized.
17:29 Ukraine has drones and missiles that can fly 1,500 km into Russia, said Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin: "We have drones, missiles with a range of 1,500 kilometers... And you have seen that they are effective."
16:58 Russians attacked the village of Makarovo in the Zolochiv community of the Kharkiv region - one person was killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
16:26 In Poltava, 47 people are already known to have died and 206 were injured as a result of the Russian strike, First Lady Elena Zelenskaya reported.
16:07 The Romanian Parliament has finally approved the transfer of the Patriot system to Ukraine. Now the document must be signed by the country's President Klaus Iohannis.
16:00 Poltava region has declared a three-day mourning for those killed in the Russian attack, said OVA head Filipp Pronin.
15:52 Mongolian government officials told Politico on condition of anonymity that they cannot arrest Putin because their "hands are a little tied." The officials explained that their country is energy dependent on Russia: "Mongolia imports 95% of its petroleum products and more than 20% of its electricity from our closest neighbors... These supplies are critical to our survival and the survival of our people."
15:34 The number of victims as a result of the Russian missile strike on the Grand Palace hotel complex in Zaporozhye at night has risen to six, the State Emergency Service reported.
14:41 The United States is close to making a decision on providing Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles JASSM, which can reach deep into Russia, Reuters writes. The inclusion of JASSM missiles in the weapons package is expected to be announced this fall, although a final decision has not yet been made.
14:35 The Rada voted to include the Unmanned Systems Forces into separate branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:29 Russia launched two ballistic missiles at the Institute of Communications in Poltava - as of now, 41 people are known to have died and more than 180 were injured , Zelensky said. The strike hit the territory of the educational institution and a nearby hospital, partially destroying one of the buildings. The Defense Ministry clarified that the time interval between the alarm and the strike was so short that it caught people evacuating to a bomb shelter.
14:17 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reported that he held a meeting in Kiev with the heads of the Ministry of Energy, the State Nuclear Regulatory Authority and Energoatom before his trip to the occupied Zaporizhia NPP. This is already his tenth visit to Ukraine.
13:23 Russians have brought a "colossal number" of air defense systems to Crimea and are building a "mysterious structure" near the Kerch Bridge, said spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy Dmitry Pletenchuk. According to him, the Russians are using all available air defense systems of various ranges on the peninsula: S-300, S-400, and even S-500 systems. As for the structure near the bridge, there is no precise information about its purpose yet, Pletenchuk noted, adding that "it could be a protective structure, a technical structure, or a parallel crossing."
13:11 At night, Russians carried out massive shelling of Ukrzaliznytsia facilities, the company reported. In particular, infrastructure and rolling stock in Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions were attacked. No one was hurt. In addition, on the evening of September 2, the house of a Ukrzaliznytsia employee, a locomotive depot driver, came under enemy artillery fire in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. It is from this city that railway workers are now organizing the evacuation of civilians. The railway worker and his wife, an employee of the primary trade union, were injured.
13:04 The Verkhovna Rada adopted an appeal to the G7 countries, in which, on behalf of the Ukrainian people, it called for "demonstrating unity and determination in protecting the goals and principles of the United Nations Charter and countering the criminal actions of the Russian Federation aimed at destroying Ukraine as a state, undermining the global security architecture and dividing the international community."
12:19 Over the past 24 hours, Russians have used drones to attack not only energy infrastructure facilities, but also energy workers, the Ministry of Energy reported. Thus, in the Chernihiv region, during a UAV attack on an energy facility, three workers were injured. In the Sumy region, a repair crew was attacked by an enemy drone, the driver was injured.
11:40 In Mariupol, the so-called chairman of the occupation city council, Oleg Nosenko, was attacked. He is in serious condition in intensive care with a craniocerebral injury as a result of "a blow with a blunt object to the back of the head," said Mariupol mayoral adviser Petro Andryushchenko. According to him, Nosenko was hit on the head with a brick on Sportivnaya Street.
11:14 As a result of Russian shelling, one of the two external overhead lines through which the Zaporizhzhya NPP receives power from the Ukrainian energy system was damaged, Energoatom reported. If the second line is damaged, an emergency situation will arise, the company warned. Ukrainian specialists cannot yet inspect the damaged area and begin repairs, since there is a threat of repeated shelling of the site by Russian troops.
09:59 The Russian army attacked a residential building in Sadovoe, Kherson region - one person was killed, one was wounded, OVA reported. Another person was killed in Kizomys as a result of a drone attack.
09:22 In Kharkiv, the number of victims as a result of yesterday's attack on the Kievsky district has increased to 14, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. He also said that the previous evening, the Russians again struck the Kievsky and Saltovsky districts with KABs, no one was hurt.
09:03 In the morning, Russian troops attacked Antonovka in the Kherson region from a UAV, one person was wounded. Over the previous day, one person was killed and four were wounded in the region as a result of Russian shelling, including one child, said the head of the OVA, OVA Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:57 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on September 2 - in Selydove and Ukrainsk. Another 12 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, including five in Selydove and three in Pokrovsk, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:41 Air defense destroyed 27 of 35 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs at night, six more were lost and two flew in the direction of the Belgorod region and occupied Donetsk region, the Air Force reported. Air defense operated in the Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Kherson, Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. In addition, at night the enemy struck with three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and a Kh-59/69 guided air missile.
The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim reported that Russia attacked the Voznesensky and Nikolaevsky districts with ballistic missiles, probably Iskander-M, at night. The missiles hit open areas outside of populated areas, there were no casualties.
08:35 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 3:
- personnel - about 618,960 (+1360) people,
- tanks - 8611 (+10),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,821 (+35),
- artillery systems - 17,664 (+18),
- MLRS - 1177 (+0),
- air defense systems - 940 (+0),
- aircraft - 368 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,573 (+36),
- cruise missiles - 2578 (+21),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 23,972 (+47),
- special equipment - 3003 (+9).
08:23 Air defense was operating near Chernigov at night; two people were injured as a result of falling debris, reported the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
08:07 Late in the evening of September 2, Russians attacked a hotel in Zaporozhye: two people were killed, including an eight-year-old child, two more were wounded, including a 12-year-old child, said the head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov.
07:36 Late in the evening of September 2, the Russians attacked the Dnieper - one person was killed, six were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
07:29 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation footage, that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have restored positions in the southwest of Novogrodovka, which is southeast of Pokrovsk. According to the General Staff, in the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops were concentrating attacks near Novogrodovka. The Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState, in turn, reports that the enemy has advanced in New York and Prechistovka.