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[Korrespondent] 21:48 Russians dropped guided aerial bombs on civilian infrastructure in the Shostka district of the Sumy region: two people were wounded in the Glukhovskaya community, and five more in the Esmanskaya community, the prosecutor's office reported.
17:17 Denmark will transfer almost $630 million to Ukraine for the purchase of weapons through the Ukrainian defense industry, of which $434 million will come from frozen Russian assets, the country's Defense Ministry reported. By the end of the year, it is planned to supply Ukrainian-made weapons and equipment to the front, financed by Denmark, as well as from frozen Russian assets that Denmark receives on behalf of the EU.
16:23 The General Staff confirmed that the Defense Forces struck at night an arsenal for storing and modernizing missile and artillery weapons of the Russian troops near the village of Kotluban in the Volgograd Region. According to the General Staff, a train with Iranian missiles arrived at the arsenal the day before. A fire and detonation of ammunition were recorded on the territory of the arsenal.
16:10 Russians fired FPV drones at a railway station in the town of Khutor-Mykhailovsky (Druzhba) in the Shostka district of the Sumy region - a train driver, a station worker and a passenger were injured. An armored locomotive was damaged, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
13:44 The number of victims as a result of the enemy attack on Zaporizhia has increased to 16, including two minors aged eight and 16, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
12:21 The commander of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians, which is defending Vuhledar, Colonel Ivan Vynnyk has been dismissed from his post, the press service of the brigade reported. Vynnyk himself expressed gratitude to the soldiers and colleagues. Last week, the Operational Command North stated that Vynnyk was appointed to the top post "for the purpose of promotion and transfer of combat experience."
11:30 In Zaporozhye, the number of victims as a result of the night attack has increased to 13, including a 17-year-old teenager, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
10:26 In Kherson, one person was wounded as a result of an enemy drone strike this morning, OVA reported. Over the previous day, four people were killed and ten wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:18 In Donetsk Oblast, on September 28, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Yasenovo. Another 14 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
10:14 On the evening of September 28, Russians struck the KAB in the village of Slatino in the Kharkov region - three people were killed, seven were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
10:11 The number of victims in Zaporozhye has increased to 11, emergency rescue operations have been completed, the State Emergency Service reported.
09:27 In Kotluban, Volgograd Region, an ammunition arsenal of the Main Directorate of Missile and Artillery Armament of the Russian Defense Ministry, where some of the Iranian ballistics were stored, as well as launch systems for them, was attacked, claims the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, Andrey Kovalenko. He also reports a fire at a military airfield in Yeysk after a UAV attack.
08:38 Air defense shot down 15 of 22 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, and five more enemy drones were lost, the Air Force reported. The air defense operated in the Sumy, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv and Odessa regions.
09:19 During the night, Russians carried out more than ten strikes on Zaporizhia, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov. A multi-storey building and private houses were destroyed, at present seven people are known to have been wounded.
08:15 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 29:
- personnel - about 651,810 (+1,170) people,
- tanks - 8869 (+9),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,476 (+38),
- artillery systems - 18,795 (+62),
- MLRS - 1204 (+1),
- air defense systems - 962 (+1),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,186 (+93),
- cruise missiles - 2610 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,495 (+84),
- special equipment - 3297 (+6).
07:46 Drones attacked different regions of Russia at night. In Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, after a UAV attack, explosions were heard near a military town, where the Russian Navy airfield is also located, local publics write. Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that in the village of Shabelskoye, Shcherbinovsky District, a drone suppressed by electronic warfare forces crashed into a tree and exploded upon falling, damaging a neighboring house.
Residents of the Volgograd Region also reported a UAV attack and subsequent fire. According to them, a fire is visible in the area of ​​the village of Sady Pridonya in the Gorodischevskiy District. Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev said that several suppressed and shot down drones fell in Voronezh and its suburbs, and a falling drone hit a residential complex on Moskovsky Prospekt, causing a fire. A fire was also recorded in a residential building on the left bank of the city. In addition, according to local residents, a fire broke out in the village of Somov after the UAV attack.
Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev said that dry grass caught fire in the Azov District after the fall of debris from one of the UAVs. Residents of Tsimlyansk, Volgodonsk and other settlements in the Rostov Region also reported explosions. Local publics are writing about a fire in the village of Samarskoye in the Azov District.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense destroyed and intercepted 125 drones during the night: 67 UAVs over the Volgograd Region, 17 over Belgorod, 17 over Voronezh, 18 over Rostov, one each over Bryansk and Kursk Regions and Krasnodar Krai, and three over the waters of the Sea of ​​Azov.
07:38 On September 28, during the day, Russian troops attacked the Kutsurubskaya community of Nikolaevsky district with FPV drones: in the village of Dmitrovka, a residential building was damaged, two people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. As a result of the enemy's night attack by Shahed drones, an educational institution was damaged in the Shevchenkivska community, no one was hurt.