This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday, September 29.
This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday, September 29.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine seasonal conscription campaign, calling up 130,000 citizens for military service.
- A former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Andrei Troshev, has been tasked by Putin to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine.
- Russia has said it destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, though one UAV dropped explosives on a substation, cutting a local power supply.
- On an unannounced visit to Kyiv, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukrainian forces were “gradually gaining ground” in their counteroffensive.