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Sunday, 14 December 2025, 02:55
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 590 attacks across 15 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of enemy strikes on Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding district, one person was killed and 22 were injured, including four children.
Part of Kropyvnytskyi and 44 other settlements in Kirovohrad region were left without power following a massive Russian drone attack.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to September 17, 2025, amount to about 1,097,450 personnel, including 1,020 in the past 24 hours.
Drone pilots from the Phoenix Unmanned Systems Unit of the Pomsta (Revenge) Border Guard Brigade destroyed a heavy bomber, a Mavic UAV, and electronic equipment belonging to Russian invaders in the Kupiansk sector.
A number of trains are delayed due to a large-scale Russian attack on Ukrzaliznytsia and power outages along railway routes.
In Cherkasy region, Russian strike UAVs targeted critical infrastructure facilities.
In Zaporizhzhia, two children who were injured as a result of a night attack on the city are in intensive care.
Russian propaganda is spreading a fake claim alleging that Ukrainian defenders used civilians in Sosnivka, Dnipropetrovsk region, as “human shields.”
16 September 2025
Two people were injured in the Kharkiv region on Tuesday, September 16, as a result of strikes by the Russian military.
Since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian defenders have destroyed 29,095 units of Russian army vehicles.
A 74-year-old local resident was injured in the village of Bilozerka, Kherson region, as a result of an attack by a Russian drone.
In Kyiv region, firefighters extinguished a fire covering 17,000 square meters after a Russian drone struck warehouse facilities at the logistics center of the Epicenter company.
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, causing damage and injuring three people.
Canada’s Minister of Transport Chrystia Freeland will take on the role of Canada’s special envoy on Ukraine.
Eighty-five combat engagements have taken place between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian troops since midnight, 36 of them on the Pokrovsk axis.
Russian forces dropped explosives from a drone onto a private house in the border village of Arkhypivka, Chernihiv region.
Russian occupation forces on the Dnipro front are attempting to land on several islands in the river delta. Today, in particular, they tried to land on Kruhlyk Island and establish a foothold.
In Zaporizhzhia, the number of people injured in last night's attack has risen to 20, after two more children sought medical assistance.
Recently, the enemy has been actively deploying Molniya and Molniya-2 loitering munitions to strike logistics along the Mykolaiv-Kherson highway and routes stretching east from Zaporizhzhia toward Orikhiv, Huliaipole, Vilniansk and beyond.
Russian occupation forces are attempting to resume assault operations in the direction of the village of Malynivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The number of victims of the Russian strike on the Slobidskyi District in Kharkiv has risen to four.
Russians attacked the Sumy community with strike UAVs, with at least six hits recorded.
Russian forces are conducting strikes on Kharkiv.
Overnight on September 16, Special Operations Forces (SOFs) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in coordination with other components of the Defense Forces, struck the Saratov Oil Refinery.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the latest Russian attacks, stated that since the beginning of September, Russia has launched more than 3,500 drones, nearly 190 missiles, and over 2,500 aerial bombs.
In Fastiv district, Kyiv region, a Russian drone strike damaged warehouse facilities at a logistics center, as well as four private homes and 23 vehicles.
Overnight, Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia with Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems, striking the Komunarskyi and the Shevchenkivskyi districts of the city. Apartment blocks, private homes, auto repair shops, service stations, and industrial facilities were damaged.
Ukraine’s air defense forces destroyed 89 of 113 drones used by Russia in its latest large-scale attack on Ukraine starting in the evening of September 15.
In the village of Velykyi Burluk, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, a fire broke out at an agricultural enterprise on the night of September 16 following a strike by a Russian drone.