
We want to get Russia out of its comfort zone – Ukraine’s intel chief
Ukrainian forces want to get Russians out of their comfort zone.
Ukrainian forces want to get Russians out of their comfort zone.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how the soldiers of the Third Assault Brigade raised the flag over the liberated Andriivka, in the Donetsk region.
The personnel of the river flotilla of the Ukrainian Navy destroyed a command and observation post and eliminated 20 Russian invaders.
In the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian positions 576 times. Fourteen military clashes were recorded.
Russian troops fired at an ambulance in the village of Mykolaivka , in the Kherson region.
Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi awarded the soldiers of the Offensive Guard with departmental awards for the liberation of Klishchiivka, in the Donetsk region.
Over the past day, Russian troops fired 17 times at the city of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is not very fast, but Ukrainian forces are moving forward and liberating the temporarily occupied areas every day.
This morning, Russian invaders attacked Beryslav, in the Kherson region, with a drone, injuring four local residents.
During the latest combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Monday, September 18, Russia used an unprecedented number of aircraft.
At night on September 18, the Russian army attacked the southern regions of Ukraine with several waves of attack drones, and a hit was recorded on the recreational infrastructure of the Vilkovo community in the Danube region.
Russia’s Navy has deployed six warships in the Black Sea, with no cruise missile carriers spotted among them.
Over the last two weeks, Russia has likely additionally strengthened the 58th Combined Arms Army, which has found itself in a difficult situation in the Orihiv direction, Zaporizhzhia region, with airborne assault units.
Yesterday, on September 17, Russian troops killed one resident of the Donetsk region and injured four other civilians.
The Ukrainian military may have enough time to break Russia's land corridor to the temporarily occupied Crimea even before the onset of winter, while the invaders deployed their reserves “prematurely”.
Ukraine’s defense forces have already liberated 51 square kilometers near Bakhmut, including 2 sq. km in the past week.
In the early hours of Monday, September 18, Ukraine’s air defense forces downed 18 of 24 Shahed-136/131 one-way attack drones and all 17 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles launched by Russia.
Russian troops attacked the Snihurivka community in the Mykolaiv region with drones overnight into Monday.
Ukraine's defense forces eliminated about 272,940 Russian invaders between February 24, 2022 and September 18, 2023, including 620 in the past day alone.
The enemy carried out 92 attacks on the Kherson region in the last 24 hours, using mortars, artillery, Grad multiple rocket launchers, UAVs and aircraft.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down two Russian cruise missiles in the Dnipropetrovsk region this morning.
Ukraine's defense forces hit 11 enemy artillery pieces, three ammunition depots, an electronic warfare station and other important targets on Sunday, September 17.
Ukraine is making every effort to exchange prisoners of war based on the "all-for-all" principle, despite constant delays in negotiations by Russia.
On September 17, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Sumy region’s border areas 34 times. A total of 179 explosions were recorded.
In Kherson region, a tractor driver ran over a Russian landmine while working in the field and was seriously injured.
In recent days, Russian troops have likely reinforced their defences around the temporarily occupied town of Tokmak in southern Ukraine, which is approximately 16 kilometres behind the current front line.
17 September 2023
Liberating the Donetsk region’s Klishchiivka from Russian occupiers has created a bridgehead, allowing the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to develop further offensive actions.
Some powerful explosions have been heard near Cape Fiolent in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol.
As the Donetsk region’s Klishchiivka was liberated from Russian occupiers, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky expressed gratitude to each Ukrainian defender, who is now on the front line.