
Kherson region hit by Russian strikes: homes damaged, seven hurt, including minor
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked Kherson region using aviation, artillery, and drones, leaving seven people injured, including a child.
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.
Russian invaders struck a fire and rescue station in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, with a drone.
Russian troops carried out 49 strikes on 16 settlements in the Chernihiv region over the past day, injuring a civilian and causing extensive damage.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 136 of the 172 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine on the evening of September 16.
Yesterday, Kharkiv and 11 settlements in the Kharkiv region were under Russian strikes, and six people were injured.
On Wednesday night, September 17, Russian invaders struck a hotel in Kramatorsk with two drones.
On the morning of September 17, Russian invaders attacked Ingulets in the Kherson region with a guided aerial bomb, injuring three adults and a child.
One person was killed and 11 others were wounded in the Kherson region over the past 24 hours as a result of Russian aggression.
For me, victory is in preserving the nation, preserving our statehood and achieving a diplomatic settlement on our terms
On September 16, Ukrainian Defense Forces were involved in 183 combat clashes with Russian invaders, with the heaviest assaults and offensive actions occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
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.