Portal:Current events/2022 September 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
        • Russian attack on civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia
          • Russian forces launch 16 missiles at areas near the city of Zaporizhzhia, including a gathering point for civilians preparing to cross into Russian-occupied territory, where at least 25 people are killed and 50 others are injured. (NBC News)
    • Ukraine–NATO relations
      • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy requests fast-track NATO membership following the Russian annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine. (BBC News)
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • Uzbekistan says that it will not deport Russians fleeing conscription. (Reuters)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • September 2022 Kabul school bombing
    • Twenty-six people are killed and 56 others are injured by a suicide bomber at a school in Dashte Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan. (CNN)
• Papua conflict
  • Four people are killed when armed rebels open fire on civilians in West Papua, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
  • Junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is removed from office in a coup d'état after gunfire in the Burkinabé capital of Ouagadougou. Coup leader Ibrahim Traoré imposes a curfew, suspends all political civil society activities as well as the Constitution, and closes all land and air borders. (AP) (France24)
• Mahsa Amini protests
  • Nineteen people are killed and 32 more injured when three gunmen attack a police station and open fire in a mass shooting in Zahedan, Iran. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge, Economy of the Netherlands
  • Inflation in the Netherlands increases to 17% amid a substantial increase in energy and fuel prices. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Ian makes its fourth landfall in South Carolina, after devastating portions of Florida and Cuba. (National Hurricane Center)
• Two people are killed and 25 others are injured by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Eight people are killed and three others are missing after flooding in Táchira, Venezuela. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Nicaragua
  • The Nicaraguan government announced that it had severed diplomatic relations with the Netherlands.

Politics and elections

• Russian annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin signs accession treaties to annex the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia. However, the accession treaties must be ratified by both houses of the Russian parliament before becoming effective under Russian law. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
• Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirms that the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense was hacked and that leaked data included information about the president's health issues and other national security issues. (Proceso)