Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said that Ukrainian drones had again entered the country's airspace, stressing that the incident highlightes the importance of increasing support for Ukraine, including by providing air defense systems.

Many EU member states have already expressed their readiness to provide Ukraine with funds they could receive from the currently blocked European Peace Facility.

During an informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Ireland on September 1, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas will reiterate her call for member states that have ballistic-missile interceptors in storage to provide them to Ukraine.

A fire broke out on the 14th and 15th floors of a 16-story residential building in Kyiv’s Podilskyi district.

The second batch of Russian Rassvet satellites appears to have failed to reach their planned operational altitudes in space, marking another setback in Moscow’s efforts to rapidly deploy a Russian analogue to Starlink.

Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russian drone launch sites, a communications hub, a command-and-observation post and warehouses in Russia’s Belgorod region and temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories on August 31 and overnight on September 1.

China’s Foreign Ministry has not denied Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s statement that Beijing would not allow Russia to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine and continues to call for a political settlement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

A Ukrainian-Italian event titled “La Nostra Indipendenza,” dedicated to Ukraine’s Independence Day, was held in Milan.

An Indian citizen was among those killed in Russia’s attack on Ukraine overnight on September 1.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Gavin Gray.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 15 other settlements in the Kharkiv region, injuring three people in the village of Zolochiv in the Bohodukhiv district, including two children.

Eight people were killed and another seven injured in a Russian attack on Kyiv overnight on September 1.

UAVs attacked the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad region overnight on Tuesday, September 1, sparking a fire in the port area.

Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized five ballistic missiles, five Kalibr cruise missiles, two S8000 Banderyl missiles and 187 drones used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine since the evening of August 31.

In Kyiv, the death toll from the Russian ballistic missile attack on the night of September 1 has risen to eight; five more people were injured, including three children.

Since this evening, Russian troops have attacked three districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 20 times with aerial bombs and drones. Apartment buildings and a supermarket were damaged.

Total combat losses among Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—from February 24, 2022, through September 1, 2026—amount to approximately 1,489,640 personnel, including 1,440 over the past 24 hours.

In Kyiv on the night of September 1, seven people were killed as a result of a Russian ballistic missile attack on a railway depot and other railway facilities; six of them were railway workers.

Counterintelligence, military counterintelligence, and investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have gathered evidence against two Russian military officials implicated in missile strikes on Reuters journalists in the Donetsk region and the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv.

Russia has already reached a production capacity of about 3,000 jet-powered drones per month and plans to maintain this level going forward.

Russian invaders attacked the Mykolaiv district this evening, resulting in one man being wounded and a fire breaking out

Carlo Formosa, the Italian Ambassador to Ukraine, awarded the Order of the Star of Italy to Anatolii Solovyanenko, chief director of the National Opera of Ukraine, and Maksym Tymoshenko, rector of the National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) concerning the implementation of comprehensive resilience plans for individual regions and preparations in Kyiv for the 2026/2027 heating season.

Ukraine’s Finance Ministry leadership and International Monetary Fund experts have begun discussions on economic prospects and parameters of the 2027 state budget.

Approximately 240,000 first-graders are expected to start school in the new academic year, while a total of 3 million children will begin classes at Ukrainian schools.

China has privately assured Finland that it would not allow Russia to use nuclear weapons.

From August 24 to 30, two Ukrainian regions received energy equipment worth nearly €1.8 million in total from international partners.

Ukraine is conducting combat testing of at least four interceptors designed to counter Russian jet-powered drones.

A total of 173 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian forces were recorded on the front line on August 31, with more than 30 enemy attacks reported in the Pokrovsk sector.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has relieved Oleksandr Kamyshin of his duties as a freelance adviser on strategic matters.

The foreign ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary will meet in Bratislava on September 1 for a Visegrad Group (V4+) meeting. It will be the first meeting of the four countries’ foreign ministers since March 2024.

The number of people injured in today’s Russian air attacks in the Kyiv region has risen to nine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for an audit of agreements with international partners that were reached at the political level but have yet to be implemented by ministries, businesses and state-owned companies.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin during talks in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on Monday that the war in Ukraine must end for the sake of humanity and that New Delhi would support all peace efforts aimed at ending the hostilities.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on Monday to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine, U.S. media reported.

Fires broke out in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi districts after debris from Russian drones fell on the evening of August 31.

Representatives of Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia held the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee of the Meccan Defense Alliance, established earlier this month for the collective defense of its member states.

Israel and Greece have signed a major €3 billion defense deal on Monday, August 31, under which Israel will build a multilayered air defense system in Greece.

Ukraine and its partners must do all they can to push Russia toward ending the war, as signals from Russia currently point in the opposite direction.

Throughout the day, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol, Synelnykiv, Kryvyi Rih, and Pavlohrad districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, dropped aerial bombs, and fired artillery, injuring six people.

President Volodymyr Zelensky held a conversation with representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump—Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner—during which he discussed further coordination between the negotiating teams and the development of solutions to achieve peace.

In the Kherson region, three people were killed and seven were injured—including a child—as a result of Russian shelling throughout the day.

France, which will assume the presidency of the UN Security Council on September 1, plans to convene a separate meeting on Ukraine. It will most likely take place during the high-level week of the UN General Assembly in New York.

As a result of the Russian attack on August 31, another distribution center belonging to the “Aurora” supermarket chain was destroyed.

In Kherson, a Russian drone struck the roof of a supermarket’s sales floor, injuring a child.

Poland's defense holding, Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), plans to launch a project with a Ukrainian partner to jointly produce ground robotic systems.

Russian forces have attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with drones, injuring six people.

An explosion occurred inside the administrative building of a district police department in Rivne, killing one police officer and injuring three others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will focus its diplomatic efforts over the coming weeks on financing defense and long-range and mid-range strike operations, energy and preparations for winter, as well as social programs and support for economic activity.

Belgium is standing firm against using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.