Here is how things stand on Saturday, September 6:
Fighting
Russian forces took control of the settlement of Markove in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the Ministry of Defence.
Ukraine attacked Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery, said the commander of Kyiv’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, as well as an oil depot in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.
Debris fell on the grounds of an industrial enterprise after the Ukrainian attack, said Ryazan’s regional governor, Pavel Malkov, with air defence and electronic warfare systems shooting down eight drones in the region, causing no casualties.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “thousands” of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under post-war security guarantees agreed