Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 173 combat engagements on September 14, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk, Lyman and Novopavlivka axes.
• Romania said an attack drone identified as a Russian Geran spent about 50 minutes in its airspace near the Danube; F‑16s tracked it and considered a shootdown before it returned to Ukraine, while German Eurofighters patrolled.
• Bucharest summoned Russia’s ambassador, called the incident unacceptable, and plans to raise it at the UN General Assembly; EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavsky condemned the breach.
• Ukraine’s military said drone and special operations units struck the Kirishi oil refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region overnight, reporting explosions and a fire as results were still being assessed.
• Ukrainian intelligence sources reported combined GUR and Special Operations sabotage on Russian rail lines near Orel–Kursk and St. Petersburg–Pskov, including a fuel‑tanker derailment and casualties among Rosgvardiya personnel.