Ukraine allocates UAH 2B to boost ‘Drone Army. Bonus’ program for troops
The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated over UAH 2 billion (USD 54 million) to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense to strengthen funding for the Drone Army. Bonus project.
22 September 2025
The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated over UAH 2 billion (USD 54 million) to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense to strengthen funding for the Drone Army. Bonus project.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the illegal “visit” to the temporarily Russian-occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Burkina Faso’s Ambassador Aristide Tapsoba, Mali’s Ambassador Seydou Kamissoko, and Niger’s Ambassador Issa Abou Sidiq.
Over the past day, Ukrainian forces regained control of 1.3 square kilometers and conducted search-and-destroy operations across an additional 2.1 square kilometers in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are steadily driving out Russian occupying forces near Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
In southern Ukraine, Russian forces have intensified the use of various weapons: missile strikes increased eightfold, the use of unguided air-to-ground rockets rose by 30%, the number of Shahed-type drones grew by 70%, and attacks with loitering munitions such as Molniya, Privet-82, and Lancet tripled.
A powerful explosion was heard in Zaporizhzhia during an air raid alert. Air defense systems were activated.
The number of people injured in the Russian drone strikes on Sumy has risen to two, eight buildings were damaged.
Over the past week, Russian forces carried out 31 assault operations on Ukrainian positions in the south, most of them along the Orikhiv and Huliaipole directions in Zaporizhzhia region.
In Zaporizhzhia, rescuers have completed emergency rescue operations at the sites of air strikes carried out by the enemy in the morning.
Russian invading forces are trying to reach the outskirts of Prymorske along the Orikhiv direction.
Russian troops in the area of responsibility of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pokrovsk direction are trying to penetrate deep into Ukrainian positions in small groups and block logistics routes.
The world premiere of the staged production of Ukrainian composer Dmytro Bortniansky’s first opera 'Creonte' will take place on October 3 in Chernivtsi — on the city’s day and the 120th anniversary of the Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater named after Olha Kobylianska, where the performance will be held.
In the Kharkiv region, one man was killed and five people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling during the day, while another person was injured by an unknown explosive device.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck a Russian S-400 Triumf air defense system in Kaluga region.
Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained two Russian agents in the Kyiv region who, on orders from the FSB, were smuggling Ukrainian SIM cards to Russia for use in drones.
In the morning, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with guided bombs; at least 10 strikes were recorded in three areas of the city.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed the destruction of a massive stock of Russian strike drones and a field ammunition depot in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Rescuers eliminated the consequences of a Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region on the night of September 22.
Rescuers eliminated the consequences of a Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region on the night of September 22.
Soldiers of the Special Unit "Prymary" of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine burned two Russian Be-12 Chayka anti-submarine and maritime patrol bomber aircraft in Crimea and destroyed a Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter.
Soldiers of the Special Unit "Prymary" of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine burned two Russian Be-12 Chayka anti-submarine and maritime patrol bomber aircraft in Crimea and destroyed a Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 132 out of 141 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since the evening of September 21.
Over the past 24 hours, on September 21, 156 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline.
Ukrainian forces blew up and flooded abandoned gas pipeline the Russians tried to use to infiltrate Kupyansk
Two people were wounded in the Kherson region in 24 hours as a result of Russian aggression.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to September 22, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to about 1,102,570 servicemen, 960 of whom were killed yesterday.
Several new series of explosions have occurred in the Zaporizhzhia region, including in the regional center.
A former stage technician of the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater, serviceman Artem Odynets, was killed in the war.
Operators of the 412th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment Nemesis of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed an enemy offensive road clearer, the IMR-3M.
In Russia, the number of contract soldiers has decreased more than 2.5 times, insufficient to cover the army's irrecoverable losses in the war against Ukraine.