Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:40 Germany has allocated an additional 50 million euros for the treatment of wounded Ukrainian soldiers in its hospitals. According to Interior Minister Nancy Feser, Germany has already evacuated almost 1,200 seriously wounded and injured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians and provided them with assistance in German hospitals.
21:34 Russia produces 42 to 56 ballistic and 90 to 115 long-range cruise missiles per month, which can be used to strike deep into Ukrainian territory, including energy infrastructure. The production rate of Shahed-136 drones is more than 500 units, Forbes Ukraine writes, citing an intelligence source.
20:59 The defence ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have called on NATO in a joint statement to prepare a "collective response" to the violation of the Alliance's airspace by Russian drones and missiles. "This new reality cannot be ignored. We need a collective response within NATO to the challenges posed by modern weapons and technologies, including by strengthening our ability to detect, identify and, if necessary, engage low and slow flying objects," the statement said.
20:17 Zelensky said in an evening video address that the victory plan is completely ready: "There is not and cannot be any alternative to peace, no freezing of the war or any other manipulations that will simply transfer Russian aggression to another stage. We need reliable and long-term security for Ukraine, and therefore for all of Europe." The president also emphasized the need to implement agreements with international partners, in particular on staffing brigades and deliveries of promised air defense systems.
In addition, Zelensky noted "a very important result" on the territory of Russia: "Such inspiring accuracy." In this regard, the head of state thanked the special services - the SBU, the GUR, the Special Operations Forces.
The head of state also reported that he heard two reports from Syrsky today - on defense and offensive steps, "regarding changes in the situation in the Kursk region and our reaction - a strong reaction." The President noted each Ukrainian unit in this direction, where the Defense Forces "are maintaining the situation on our bridgehead within the calculations." Attention was also paid to the situation in the east of Ukraine: "Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Kurakhovo - we are working on strengthening, and this concerns both weapons and personnel."
18:55 Of the additional 495 billion hryvnia allocated by the Verkhovna Rada for defense, 274.4 billion will be spent on payments for the military and their families, and another 76.2 billion on weapons and equipment that will help modernize the army, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said. He added that priority in purchases will be given to Ukrainian weapons manufacturers.
18:13 By the end of the week, the Ministry of Defense will issue a decree according to which it will be impossible to mobilize men of limited fitness between the ages of 18 and 25, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk reported. And those of limited fitness under 25 who have already been mobilized will not be sent to assaults or other operations associated with an increased risk to their life and health.
17:36 The Russian counteroffensive in the Kursk region has been stopped, part of its territory remains under Ukrainian control, said the representative of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Commandant's Office Alexey Dmitrashkovsky. According to him, Russian troops "tried to attack from the flanks, but were stopped, the situation has stabilized and today everything is under our control, they did not succeed."
16:58 The WSJ data on the death of 80 thousand Ukrainian soldiers is exaggerated, said the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko. According to him, in 2022 and 2023, Ukraine lost 19 thousand dead soldiers - this is about official death certificates. There are also more missing, but Kostenko did not specify their number, as well as the data for 2024.
16:14 One of those wounded as a result of Russian shelling of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region has died in hospital, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
15:47 Russians fired artillery at Marganets in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region - three people were wounded, including a nine-year-old child, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
15:32 During the 11th meeting of the Core Group on the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, its participants reached an agreement on the general concept of creating a special tribunal, the Office of the President reported. In particular, the model of the tribunal, which will be created by an agreement with the Council of Europe, was determined. The Core Group participants moved from general issues of the format of the special tribunal to discussing the draft Charter. The meeting was attended by 41 delegations. All of them confirmed that those guilty of the crime of aggression against Ukraine will be brought to justice, and also determined the next steps in creating a special tribunal.
14:38 Estonian defense company Frankenburg Technologies announced that it will begin production of anti-drone missile systems in Ukraine.
14:29 Lithuania plans to provide Ukraine with additional aid worth 40-50 million euros by the end of the year in addition to the 153 million euros already allocated in 2024, Defense Minister Laurynas Kaščiūnas said. Of this amount, 10 million is allocated for the production of the Palianitsa unmanned missile system in Ukraine, which was announced earlier, as well as for the purchase of radars, demining equipment, and short-range air defense systems.
14:13 Russians launched a suicide drone strike on Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding two people, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
13:36 Le Monde writes, citing sources, that one of the points of Zelensky's victory plan is an invitation to NATO. According to the publication, the Ukrainian president hopes to receive an invitation from Biden before the US presidential elections.
13:21 Russians attacked a farm in the village of Malinovka in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk Oblast, wounding three people, the prosecutor's office reported. Three more people were wounded as a result of Russian artillery strikes on the city of Konstantinovka.
12:04 More than 100 Ukrainian-made attack UAVs were used to attack an ammunition depot in Toropets, Tver Oblast, media outlets reported, citing sources in the Defense Forces. The distance to the target from the Ukrainian state border is about 500 km. Sources report that significant stocks of North Korean KN23 ballistic missiles, missiles for the Grad MLRS, S-300 air defense systems, and ballistic missiles for the Iskander system were destroyed at the depot.
11:15 The Verkhovna Rada has adopted bill No. 11417 on increasing the budget this year by UAH 500 billion for military needs. Thus, expenditures this year amount to a record UAH 3.73 trillion for Ukraine, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported.
11:08 The SBU reported that it detained an FSB agent among Ukrainian servicemen in a combat brigade fighting in the Pokrovsk direction. He was preparing a series of Russian air strikes on the locations of Ukrainian troops, for which he was promised 1 million rubles. The Ukrainian was recruited remotely, the promised money was not paid. The traitor was detained when he was recording the geolocations of the forward positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The offender is in custody, he faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
10:49 At night, drones of the SBU, GUR and SSO destroyed a large warehouse of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry in the village of Toropets in the Tver region. Ukrainian media write, citing sources, that the warehouse contained missiles intended for the Iskander operational-tactical missile systems, the Tochka-U tactical missile systems, as well as KABs and artillery ammunition. After the strikes, an extremely powerful detonation began, and a fire is currently ongoing on a 6 km wide area.
According to Volcano Discovery, 18 earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2 to 3.2 were recorded in the Tver region after UAV strikes on an ammunition depot.
10:17 In Kropyvnytskyi, as a result of a Russian attack, several residential buildings were damaged - one person was killed, one was injured, reported the head of the Kirovohrad OVA Andriy Raikovich.
09:56 Air defense destroyed 46 out of 52 attack UAVs at night, five drones were lost, and another one flew to Russia, the Air Force reported. In addition, Russia struck at night with three Kh-59/69 guided air missiles, which, due to counteraction by electronic warfare systems, did not reach their targets. There is damage to agricultural equipment, but there were no casualties or injuries. Air defense operated in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Poltava regions.
09:10 The number of casualties as a result of yesterday's Russian strikes on the Kievsky district of Kharkov has risen to nine, including four rescuers and a 15-year-old teenager, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured as a result of shelling of the village of Odnorobovka in the Bogodukhov district.
09:03 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and four were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:59 In Donetsk region on September 17, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was wounded - in Konstantinovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:54 At night, Russians attacked energy facilities in the city of Sumy with "shahedeen", OVA reported. In the Krasnopolskaya community, one person was wounded as a result of artillery shelling.
08:48 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 18:
- personnel - about 637,010 (+1,130) people,
- tanks - 8691 (+6),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,080 (+3),
- artillery systems - 18,154 (+25),
- MLRS - 1188 (+0),
- air defense systems - 947 (+0),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 15,354 (+25),
- cruise missiles - 2592 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,784 (+45),
- special equipment - 3109 (+18).
08:35 In the Toropetsky district of the Tver region, after a drone attack, an ammunition depot has been burning and detonating since the night, Russian publics write. There are two military units in Toropets, but local authorities did not admit to the attack on the ammunition depot, stating only that the fire broke out after the debris of the downed drone fell. NASA satellite images recorded heat signatures over almost the entire territory of the 107th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate in the Tver region. According to OSINT experts, the attacked warehouse stored, among other things, 122-mm rockets for Grads and 82-mm artillery mines.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense destroyed 54 UAVs during the night, 27 of which were over the Kursk region, 16 over the Bryansk region, seven over the Smolensk region, three over the Belgorod region, and one over the Oryol region.