**SITUATION AND MAIN EVENTS AS OF SEPTEMBER **

**All negotiation processes on Ukraine were interrupted not on Russia's initiative**, Lavrov stated.

**Russia will wait for proposals on new negotiations on Ukraine**, but does not harbor great illusions;

**The Russian Army in the Kharkov region continues to tighten the encirclement ring around the Ukrainian Armed Forces** and expand the outer control zone, the Ministry of Defense reported.

**The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the encirclement ring in the Kharkov region over the past day amounted to up to 50 servicemen**, and more than 600 since the beginning of the month in total.

**Kiev has transferred hastily formed assault groups of Ukrainian border guards from **western regions **with no combat experience** to the cauldron near Kharkiv, security structures reported.

**Russian military personnel destroyed up to 1,675 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen in the SVO zone **over the past day, according to the Ministry of Defense summary.

**Air defense systems shot down 258 Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft-type drones **over the past day.

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