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20 September 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the counterattack by the Defense Forces on Dobropillia and in the Pokrovsk area, 330 km² were returned to Ukrainian control, of which more than 170 km² were completely liberated from the enemy.
A Russian drone struck a residential building in Prymorsk, injuring an 87-year-old woman.
The Russians struck the Kovpakivskyi district of Sumy, causing a power outage.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces have carried out strikes against the Saratov and Novokuybyshevsk oil refineries in Russia.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 552 Russian drones, two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 29 Kh-101 cruise missiles.
One person was killed and eight wounded, including three medical workers, in enemy attacks in the Chernihiv region over the past 24 hours.
On the front line over the past day, September 19, 165 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
In the Kherson region, as a result of Russian aggression, one person was killed and four others were wounded within 24 hours.
One person was killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of a massive Russian attack.
In the early hours of September 20, Russian invaders launched a massive strike on Mykolaiv using ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to September 20, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,100,600 people, including 1,070 people over the past day.
The consequences of the Russian missile and drone attack have been recorded in the Bucha, Boryspil, and Obukhiv districts of the Kyiv region.
During a combined attack, the army hit a high-rise building in Dnipro.
Fighters from the 8th Border Guard Detachment used strike drones in the Zaporizhzhia direction to destroy a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun, a fuel depot, and a Russian vehicle.
Since the beginning of the month, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces have destroyed four enemy air defense systems and damaged about a dozen more.
Three Ukrainian teenagers have been brought back from Russian-occupied territories as part of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s initiative Bring Kids Back UA.
Another resident of Beryslav, Kherson region, was killed in a Russian drone attack on September 13.
Ukrainian fighters have destroyed a Russian medium-range surface-to-air missile system 'Buk' after an agent of the ATESH resistance movement, who is serving in the Russian military, passed along photos and coordinates of the system’s deployment.
19 September 2025
On September 19, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 124 clashes with Russian forces, with 44 enemy attacks repelled in the Pokrovsk sector alone.
A 5 Kanal vehicle struck a magnetic mine near Pokrovsk, leaving journalists concussed and the driver with leg injuries.
Ukrainian forces have advanced 3 to 7 kilometers into Russian defensive lines in the Dobropillia direction of Donetsk region.
Ukraine plans to cover the deficit in defense production financing, in particular, through controlled exports of certain types of Ukrainian weapons. Three new export platforms designed for the US, EU, and other countries will be presented within two weeks.
Russian troops attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykivskyi districts of Dnipropetrovsk region during the day, causing damage and injuring six people.
Russian troops are trying to hit old residential buildings to cause as much destruction and as many casualties as possible.
Operators of the 412th Nemesis Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a crossing, a fuel and lubricants warehouse, and several pieces of equipment in one of the key areas of the front line.
On September 19, Russian troops attacked one of the villages in the Semenivka community of the Novhorod-Siverskyi district in the Chernihiv region with drones.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 63 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the invaders attacking most actively in the Pokrovsk sector, where 25 battles have been observed.
In the capital, as a result of an attack by Russian drones on the night of September 19, transport infrastructure facilities in the Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts were damaged.
The SSU's counterintelligence unit neutralized a group of Russian agents who were spying on the locations of the Defense Forces in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In Kupiansk, Russian occupiers are using “masquerade” tactics: sabotage and reconnaissance groups dress in civilian clothes and try to infiltrate the city to gather data and take photos with the Russian flag.