Here is how things stand on Tuesday, September 30 :

Fighting

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a “righteous battle” in Ukraine . “Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard,” he said.

President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Russian men aged 18 to 30 are to be drafted between October 1 and December 31.

Ukraine’s military said it shot down a Russian helicopter using a remote-controlled drone near the village of Kotlyarivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.

A Russian drone attack on Monday night killed a family of fou

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