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[Korrespondent] 22:52 Another ship blocked due to the war has left the port and is following a temporary corridor, said Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov. The bulk carrier Puma (Cayman Islands) left the Odessa seaport this morning and is now heading to the Bosphorus. The ship is loaded with 16 thousand tons of metal and 14 thousand tons of rapeseed. The bulk carrier entered the Odessa seaport on February 19, 2022 and could not leave the port due to the outbreak of hostilities. Since August 15, four vessels have already used the temporary corridor.
22:11 Zelensky, in an evening video message, confirmed the release of Andreevka in the Bakhmut direction, and also reported on the active actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka, Opytny and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk region, Verbovoy and Novoprokopovka of the Zaporozhye region.
21:54 The head of the OP Andriy Ermak held the eighth meeting with representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Ukraine regarding the implementation of the Peace Formula. The event was dedicated to the implementation of the sixth point of the Formula - the withdrawal of Russian troops and the cessation of hostilities. Representatives of more than 70 states joined the discussion, which took place on the territory of Antonov airport in Gostomel.
21:50 According to Pentagon forecasts, in 2025 the production volume of high-explosive fragmentation ammunition of 155 mm caliber will reach 100 thousand per month, that is, 10-15 thousand more than previously planned. Today this figure is 28 thousand; next spring it is planned to increase it to 57 thousand. In the middle of last year, the United States produced 14.5 thousand ammunition of this type per month.
21:37 Zelensky said that he held a wide meeting with representatives of law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Prosecutor General: “We must finally eliminate any oligarchic-corruption influence on public authorities in Ukraine and guarantee the sustainability of democracy in our state - long-term "Today, appropriate conceptual steps and a plan of measures for their implementation were proposed."
21:12 Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced new deliveries of military aid to Ukraine next week. He also confirmed that Biden will receive Zelensky in Washington on Thursday, September 21.
20:36 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: “Restrictions by the European Commission on the access of Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union market have been lifted. This is an example of true unity and trust between Ukraine and the EU. Now it is important that European unity "It also worked at the bilateral level. So that neighbors would support Ukraine during the war. And if their decisions violate EU law, Ukraine will respond in a civilized manner."
20:23 The scandalous MP Nestor Shufrich was charged with treason, and the search of his home became the main hit of the day in the country. The people's deputy was found with prohibited Russian symbols, awards, military jackets and special documents. Read more in the material of State Treason Shufrich .
20:20 Romania may begin to shoot down Russian drones if its territory is threatened, said Deputy Chief of Defense Staff Gheorghe Vlad: “Depending on the level of threat, we are ready to use all military power to protect Romanian territory.”
He also said that the Romanian army sent 600 troops to the Danube Delta region near the border with Ukraine: “We deployed several radars, intensified our defense and discussed the issue with our NATO partners to find a solution to counter Russian aggression.”
20:13 The defense forces continue the offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions, and have partial success in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the evening report.
Due to heavy losses, the Russians are trying to supplement the newly formed 25th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces - for this purpose, the local population is being mobilized in the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories. In particular, active campaigning is being conducted in vocational schools, technical schools and among graduates of boarding schools with the involvement of military personnel.
19:38 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, discussed in detail the situation at the front in all directions, heard reports from the command on completed special operations and planning for future ones. We also discussed the supply of weapons and ammunition, and heard a large report from the Ministry of Strategic Industry on our own production and the prospects for increasing it.
18:21 Belgium will take part in training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighters as part of the “aviation coalition” led by the Netherlands and Denmark, the country’s Minister of Defense Ludivine Dedonder said.
In particular, Belgium will send two F-16B two-seat fighters to Denmark next year for pilot training, and in the coming weeks a detachment of 50 military personnel, mostly technical personnel. Belgium will host six Ukrainian instructors and four mission planners to further train Ukrainian pilots and other personnel. In the coming weeks, the Belgian Ministry of Defense will also send a group of three military personnel to the training center at the Danish Skrydstrup airbase, where Ukrainian pilots are trained.
17:32 On September 14, the Ukrainian Sea Baby drone shot down the Russian missile ship Samum near the entrance to Sevastopol Bay, the UP reports citing sources in the SBU. The Sea Baby hit the rear right side of the vessel, causing significant damage and causing the ship to lose speed. The Russians had to tow Samum for repairs “with a large trim to the stern and a list to starboard.”
According to the publication, for this attack the SBU used an experimental model of a marine drone capable of operating in a storm, hiding behind high waves. During the special operation, the wave height reached 1.5-2 meters. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the day before that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack Samum with an unmanned boat, which was allegedly destroyed.
16:55 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk told, at the request of the British and French media, what type of cruise missiles Ukrainian pilots hit the Russian ships Minsk and Rostov-on-Don: “The Air Force aviation has two types of cruise missiles provided by partners to combat occupier. We hang the British Storm Shadow under the left wing of the Su-24M, the French Scalp under the right wing. Both missiles work perfectly, without a chance for the occupier. Under the wings of our bombers there is also a place for the German Taurus. Then the “game of cities” can be continued even more effective."
16:08 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius did not rule out that the decision to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine could be made within 1-2 weeks.
16:06 Zaluzhny said that he held a meeting with American and British partners. We discussed the situation at the front, the need of the Ukrainian army for shells, weapons and military equipment. “We are waiting for good news,” added the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the meeting participants focused on the issues of strengthening air defense, additional transport for evacuating the wounded, finding ways to repair equipment and restore the combat effectiveness of military units. The situation in the Black Sea was discussed as a separate topic.
16:01 Every day, dozens of Russian soldiers are captured in Ukraine, said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense: “Every day we record the arrival of dozens of Russians in Ukrainian captivity. Among them are those who were captured as a result of hostilities, and those who surrender voluntarily".
Yusov also spoke about the sharp increase in the number of applications through the state program I want to live : if earlier we received 70-100 applications a day, now it is 170 or more. The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate clarified that currently 1,000 applications are in the process of implementation and more than 200 are “successful cases of withdrawing Russian military personnel from the front line.” According to Yusov, such an effect among the Russian military was provoked by the successful special operation of the Ukrainian military intelligence Sinitsa, as a result of which a pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew an Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine.
15:47 The United States is close to a decision to supply ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine this fall, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper, Biden has still not approved the transfer, but White House officials said anonymously that they would take a "new look" at delivering the missiles this fall to bolster Ukraine's offensive. US military leaders say they have few such missiles, so the White House is considering transferring a limited number.
15:39 Ukraine has returned the bodies of another 51 dead defenders, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported. In total, the bodies of 1,832 Ukrainian soldiers have already been repatriated.
15:10 Great Britain added PMC Wagner to the list of terrorist organizations. The order takes effect immediately. Thus, the UK will consider belonging to the Wagner PMC or active support of the group a criminal offense that could lead to 14 years in prison, the government said.
15:07 As of today, the General Staff has no additional need for female doctors at the front, said Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar. As for military registration, according to her, “this is a norm concerning women with medical education”, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at the level of law.
“The General Staff then and now assures that they now do not need women in these specialties directly at the front, and I would like to remind you that registration does not mean mobilization. Secondly, we do not have women at the front who are there without their consent That is, even if a woman is a soldier, then those five thousand who are on the front line are women who gave their consent to this,” Malyar emphasized.
14:58 Germany is discussing with partner countries the possibility of temporarily transferring IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine, said the head of the Green Party, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee Omid Nuripour.
14:26 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan: “The cooperation of our state, all our law enforcement institutions, the Office of the Prosecutor General with the International Criminal Court is absolutely systemic and brings real responsibility for Russian war crimes closer. There is already the first clear the result is a historic arrest warrant for Putin. There will be all other fair results."
14:22 Millionaire pro-Kremlin blogger Yuri Podolyaka, who is now hiding in the Russian Federation, adjusted missile attacks on Nikolaev at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the SBU reported. He received intelligence information from his informant - the ex-head of the Nikolaev district prosecutor's office, who is now serving a life sentence for treason. Podolyaka forwarded the information he received from him to his handlers from the Russian special services. He also transferred to the Russian Federation data about Russian prisoners of war and information about daily passwords at Ukrainian checkpoints.
13:57 The Southern Defense Forces confirm that a Russian guided bomb fell in Novaya Kakhovka. KAB-500 hit a residential area, causing damage to several apartment buildings and causing casualties among the local population.
13:30 The Russians in the Zaporozhye direction are not creating strike groups, but are trying to transfer additional forces, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Pivden operational command.
12:59 As a result of falling debris from downed drones tonight in one of the villages of the Khmelnitsky region, 12 households, windows in a boiler room, 28 windows in a school and power lines were damaged. No people were injured, said Sergei Tyurin, first deputy head of the OVA.
12:51 A missile attack on Russian ships at a ship repair yard in Sevastopol caused them significant damage: the BDK Minsk was almost certainly functionally destroyed, and the Rostov-on-Don submarine probably suffered catastrophic damage, the UK Ministry of Defense reports and shows a new photo of these ships.
According to British analysts, any attempts to return the submarine to service will take many years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. There is also a real possibility that the difficult task of removing the wreckage from the drydocks will keep them out of service for many months. This will pose a serious challenge for the Russians to support the maintenance of the Black Sea Fleet. The loss of the Rostov-on-Don submarine deprives the Russian Black Sea Fleet of one of four submarines capable of carrying cruise missiles.
12:42 Putin said that 300 thousand “volunteers” have already signed up to participate in the war against Ukraine. He also claims that Moscow “has never refused negotiations on Ukraine, if the other side wants, let them say so.”
12:17 Ukrainian monitoring publics report that an aerial bomb fell from a Russian plane in Novaya Kakhovka. A pair of Su aircraft took off from the Taganrog area and fired controlled bombs towards the Berislavsky region, but one of them fell in Novaya Kakhovka.
12:06 The government adopted the draft state budget 2024 with its own general fund revenues of 1.56 trillion hryvnia and general fund expenses of 3.108 trillion hryvnia. The key emphasis of the project is defense and security, Shmygal said. More than half of all budget resources will be allocated for these purposes - 1 trillion 685 billion hryvnia. This amount is 113 billion more than this year. “There will be even more weapons and equipment. More drones, ammunition, missiles. Just like this year, every penny of taxes from citizens and businesses will go to providing for our Security and Defense Forces,” the prime minister emphasized.
12:03 In the occupied Gorlovka Donetsk region and nearby settlements, the Russians organized the delivery of summonses to men of military age immediately after their participation in “voting” in pseudo-elections, Anna Malyar reported.
11:52 Air Force Speaker Yuriy Ignat said that the target of the night drone attack was Ukrainian aviation, which strikes with long-range Storm Shadow missiles and the day before attacked Russian air defense in Crimea: “The Khmelnitsky region is attacked again. It is clear what the enemy is looking for. They are looking for where the commander is hid our bombers after the events that recently took place in our sea near Crimea."
11:45 The “authorities” of occupied Novaya Kakhovka stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly struck a residential area, one person was killed, 12 were injured. The first strike was carried out by a rocket; now the city is allegedly being shelled from mortars and artillery, the occupiers claim.
11:29 Lavrov said that the Vatican envoy plans to visit Russia to discuss the “Ukrainian issue”, Moscow is ready to communicate with him.
11:11 The Russian 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade has been defeated again. It was her that American experts previously dubbed “a symbol of the problems of the Russian army.” But this is not the only brigade that has suffered serious losses this week. Ukrainian defenders have already eliminated the second commander of the elite Russian 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment, Vasily Popov. Read more in the article Broken for the fourth time .
11:06 Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed that he will meet with Zelensky next week in New York.
11:02 The US Senate Armed Services Committee is investigating the actions of Elon Musk, who limited the operation of Starlink near Crimea in 2022, writes Bloomberg. The head of the committee noted that the situation showed "serious problems with responsibility for national security."
10:25 Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, at least 12 Russian military commanders have been removed from their positions, The Washington Post writes. Some of them were fired for critical mistakes, others - after criticism of the high command or complaints about the situation at the front. This indicates a continuing split in the army and massive discontent among the senior command, the newspaper notes.
09:48 American Republican Senator Mitt Romney called military aid to Ukraine an “extremely wise investment”: “We spend about $850 billion a year on defense. We use about 5% of this amount to help Ukraine. My God, to protect freedom and destroy the Russian army - a country with 1,500 nuclear warheads pointed at us. Being able to do that with 5% of your military budget seems like a very smart investment to me."
09:24 The third separate assault brigade stated that it had liberated Andreevka, Donetsk region, and the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces was “completely defeated.” Ukrainian fighters report that as a result of a lightning-fast operation, the Russian garrison of Andreevka was surrounded, cut off from the main forces and destroyed. In two days, the Third Separate Assault Brigade eliminated the enemy's brigade reconnaissance chief, three battalion commanders and almost the entire infantry of the 72nd brigade, along with officers and a significant amount of equipment.
Today, the fighting continues, Ukrainian units are being consolidated in new positions. “We emphasize that units of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation repeatedly suffered serious losses and defeats from clashes with the Third Assault earlier. Now, after restoration and regrouping, the enemy suffered a total failure. The capture and retention of the village of Andreevka is our path to a breakthrough and the key to success all further offensive," the message said.
09:12 At night, air defense destroyed all 17 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type , with which Russia attacked Ukraine, the Air Force command reported. All drones were launched from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russian Federation) and moved along different routes in the direction of the Khmelnitsky region.
08:51 Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have shelled residential areas of settlements in the Kherson region, an administrative building and a church in the Berislavsky district, a critical infrastructure facility in the Kherson region, and the territory of a plant in Kherson. One child was killed and six more people were injured, including a child.
In the Zaporozhye region, as a result of an artillery strike on Preobrazhenka, one person was injured, according to the OVA.
08:26 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 15:
- personnel - about 271,440 (+470) people,
- tanks - 4612 (+13),
- armored combat vehicles - 8814 (+4),
- artillery systems - 5972 (+28),
- MLRS - 774 (+5),
- air defense systems - 521 (+4),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 4714 (+17),
- cruise missiles - 1455 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8492 (+34),
- special equipment - 889 (+0).
07:59 In this morning's report for yesterday's day, the General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops have captured Andreevka. Anna Malyar clarified that “it was difficult and the situation changed very dynamically several times yesterday.”
In total, 25 military clashes took place at the front over the past 24 hours. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bogdanovka area, in turn, the Defense Forces had partial success in the Kleshcheevka area.
In the Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Lastochkino and Avdeevka areas, as well as Maryinka, Donetsk region. In the Shakhtarsky direction, the Defense Forces hold the initiative and carry out assaults. In the Melitopol direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive, in the Verbovoy area of the Zaporozhye region, inflicting significant losses on the Russian troops in manpower and equipment.
05:54 During his visit to Washington next week, Zelensky will visit Congress, The Washington Post reports, citing sources. According to them, the visit has been agreed upon with the White House and is scheduled for Thursday, September 21. Zelensky will also meet with Biden at the White House, Reuters reports. The meeting is due to take place next week after Zelensky attends the UN General Assembly in New York.