Zelenskiy said Ukraine struck targets in Russia's Novorossiysk and Krasnodar regions, including an oil terminal.

Sept 5-8 — Liu Haixing, minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, led a party delegation to Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. In Uzbekistan he met President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and leaders of the Senate, legislature and ruling party; in Azerbaijan he met Prime Minister Ali Asadov and New Azerbaijan Party deputy chairman Bahram Budagov. He participated in a Central Asia session on Xi Jinping Thought, a China–Central Asia party dialogue, and attended the opening of a China Study Center and China Book House at the Azerbaijani Presidential Administrative Academy. The visits promoted Xi Jinping Thought and involved exchanges on issues of mutual concern.

Iran's Supreme Leader said Iran's alert and vigilant people have shocked and frustrated better-equipped enemies and won the admiration of freedom-loving people worldwide.