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18 September 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine's Armed Forces have thwarted a planned Russian offensive near Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
In the Donetsk region, the Russian army dropped an aerial bomb on the city of Kostiantynivka, killing five people.
Ukrainian forces are conducting a counter-sabotage operation in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with Russian sabotage group members already taken prisoner. For civilians who remain in the city, the situation is critical, though evacuations continue despite the risks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Ukrainian soldiers who took part in the Dobropillia counteroffensive operation in the Donetsk region.
The number of people injured in Russia’s strike on a gas station in Poltava region has risen to five.
On the night of September 18, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces carried out a strike on the Volgograd Oil Refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region.
Russian troops attacked one of the State Emergency Service units in Nizhyn again yesterday, killing one rescuer and wounding two others.
Four settlements in the Kharkiv region were under Russian strikes yesterday; one person died, and the other was injured.
Air Defense Forces neutralized 48 of 75 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine last night.
Between the morning of September 17 and the morning of September 18, Russian troops struck 29 settlements in 13 communities in the Sumy region 68 times.
Russian invaders killed two residents of the Donetsk region yesterday, September 17.
On the frontline over the past 24 hours, on September 17, 184 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
Seven people were injured in Russian strikes in the Kherson region yesterday.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to September 18, 2025, amount to about 1,098,380 people, including 930 yesterday.
Anti-aircraft systems were launched during an air raid alert in the capital and the Kyiv region.
The 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade has opened a school called “Guardians of the Galaxy,” where trainees learn to operate all types of drones.
Russia is initiating a new wave of mobilization in the temporarily occupied city of Melitopol as it prepares for the autumn 2025 draft.
In the Kyiv region, Russian drones attacked and set fire to warehouses and a private house.
Russian forces have destroyed 70% of the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, where around 1,200 residents still remain.
Fighters of the 15th Mobile Detachment "Steel Border" of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used drones to destroy a Russian shelter and antenna in the Kursk sector.
17 September 2025
The Canadian Armed Forces have showcased how they train Ukrainian defenders in modern combat skills.
In the Poltava region, a Russian drone struck a gas station, causing a fire and injuring one person.
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked Kherson region using aviation, artillery, and drones, leaving seven people injured, including a child.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the budget for one year of the war amounts to USD 120 billion.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the PURL initiative fund may increase to USD 3.5–3.6 billion in October.
The Pokrovsk sector became a true trial for soldiers of the 92nd Assault Brigade: a group of Ukrainian troops found themselves fully surrounded by the enemy — cut off from communications, wounded, and under constant shelling. Despite this, they held out for 12 days and managed to break free.
The Russian army continues to shell border districts in three Ukrainian regions daily, actively deploying various types of drones, with the heaviest strikes occurring in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
During the active phase of the joint Zapad-2025 military exercises between Russia and Belarus, held from September 12 to 16, no threatening activity or unusual incidents were recorded directly along the Ukrainian border.
A man was killed as a result of a Russian strike on the village of Slatyne in the Kharkiv region.
Russian troops destroyed a residential building in the village of Dudchany, Beryslav district, Kherson region, with four UAVs.