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04 September 2025
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that Ukraine’s Defense Forces are actively working to boost capabilities to counter Russian Shahed strike drones.
In Chernihiv region, the number of civilians injured in today’s Russian attack has risen to five.
Throughout the day, Russian invaders attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykivskyi districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and artillery fire, damaging houses and cars.
Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal visited Defense Forces units performing combat missions in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The number of casualties from a Russian missile strike targeting a humanitarian demining mission near Chernihiv has risen to two dead and three injured.
Russian attack drones targeted critical and industrial infrastructure in the Sumy community, leaving one civilian injured.
Russian forces launched a missile strike near a checkpoint in the village of Novoselivka, located just outside Chernihiv.
Kherson officials showed the damage caused by Russian shelling in the residential areas of the Dniprovskyi district.
Parts of Sumy and settlements in Sumy district have been cut off from electricity supply due to Russian strikes on critical infrastructure.
In Donetsk region, Russian forces dropped air bombs on a hospital in Kostiantynivka and on buildings in Illinivka, killing two people.
Russian forces shelled Kherson with artillery, injuring four employees of a public utility company.
Two people were killed and two others injured after a Russian drone detonated in the village of Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv region.
In August, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, carried out 17 strikes on Russian oil refining infrastructure.
A Russian drone struck one of the residential districts of Zaporizhzhia, leaving four people injured.
Five people were injured and a fire broke out in a residential area as a result of a Russian UAV attack on the village of Malynivka in the Chuhuiv district.
On the night of September 4, Ukraine's air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 84 Russian UAVs of various types out of 112 launched.
Russian troops carried out 133 attacks on 41 settlements in the Sumy region between the morning of September 3 and the morning of September 4, resulting in civilian casualties.
In the Odesa region, warehouses and vehicles were set on fire as a result of an attack by Russian drones.
A total of 180 combat clashes occurred between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders on September 3.
On September 3, Russian troops killed 11 civilians and injured 16 others in the Donetsk region.
As of September 4, 2025, Russia’s total combat losses in the war against Ukraine, since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022, have reached 1,085,410 personnel, including 840 troops killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupying forces carried out 487 strikes targeting 11 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian invaders launched an attack on the village of Molodizhne in the Kherson region, killing a civilian man.
In the city of Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, the Church of St. Demetrius was destroyed by fire following shelling by the Russian army.
03 September 2025
Russian forces shelled the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson at around 17:00 on Wednesday, wounding two men aged 67 and 56.
Ahead of the Coalition of the Willing leaders' summit, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and UK Defense Secretary John Healey worked through and finalized key issues regarding security guarantees for Ukraine.
Plans being developed within the Coalition of the Willing to deploy troops as part of security guarantees for Ukraine are substantial and real, but no details will be disclosed so that Russia would not be able to prepare.
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked communities in the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region using drones and artillery. One person was killed, and another was injured.
Russian occupying forces attempted to stage a video of raising their flag in Kupiansk, but Ukrainian Defense Forces disrupted the effort by eliminating the assault group.
On September 3, nine people were killed and seven injured in the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, following Russian artillery and drone strikes.