Overview

• Ukraine’s Air Force reported neutralizing 68 of 91 Shahed-type and dummy drones launched from the evening of September 5, with several still airborne into Saturday morning.
• The General Staff logged 184 combat clashes in the past 24 hours, citing the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka sectors as the most active and reporting thousands of shellings and guided bomb strikes.
• Regional authorities said at least six civilians were killed and 11 wounded in Donetsk overnight, while a drone attack in Zaporizhzhia wounded at least 15, damaged a kindergarten and homes, and saw one person rescued from rubble.
• Rescuers in Dnipropetrovsk’s Synelnykove district recovered three bodies from a house destroyed by a Russian KAB strike on September 1, underscoring ongoing civilian losses from recent attacks.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has launched more than 1,300 drones, nearly 900 guided aerial bombs, and up to 50 missiles since September began, as Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed control of Markovo and Fedorovka in Donetsk.