Overview

• Ukrainian officials said Russian UAVs struck overnight on 16–17 September, igniting fires at industrial and infrastructure sites in both oblasts.
• Kropyvnytskyi and 44 settlements in the Oleksandrivka hromada were cut off from the power grid, according to regional chief Andrii Raikovych.
• Rail traffic was suspended on the Pomichna–Kropyvnytskyi–Znamianka–Piatykhatky and Fundukliivka–Znamianka–Piatykhatky routes, the Odesa branch of Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
• State Emergency Service crews deployed 61 rescuers and 14 vehicles to contain three fires, with regional authorities reporting no casualties.
• Poltava’s administration said air defenses responded and debris from a downed UAV caused a fire at a business site that was promptly extinguished, while damage to several homes was recorded in Oleksandrivka.