September 4, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukrainian forces recapture the town of Vysokopillia in Kherson Oblast, which has been under Russian occupation since March, and raise the Ukrainian flag over the town's hospital. (Newsweek)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Six Israeli soldiers and a civilian driver are injured when three gunmen open fire on a bus in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Two of the attackers are later arrested. (Times of Israel)
Disasters and accidents
- A Syrian Air Force helicopter crashes in Hama, Syria, killing all of the people on board. (Reuters)
- A private Cessna 551 crashes into the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Latvia. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2022 Saskatchewan stabbings
- Ten people are killed and fifteen others injured in a mass stabbing at the James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon in Saskatchewan, Canada. The two suspects remain at large. (CBC News)
- Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians in the first executions in Palestinian territories since 2017. Two of those executed were accused of espionage. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Chilean national plebiscite
- By a margin of 62% to 38%, Chileans vote to reject the new proposed constitution drafted by the Constitutional Convention. (The Guardian)