Overview

• The General Staff logged 184 combat engagements on September 17, with 69 Russian assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk axis and 22 on the Novopavlivka direction.
• Ukraine reported 95 airstrikes, 153 guided bombs, 6,097 kamikaze drones and 4,766 shelling incidents used by Russian forces over the day.
• Kyiv’s latest estimate puts total Russian personnel losses at about 1,098,380, including 930 in the past 24 hours.
• Ukrzaliznytsia rerouted and delayed multiple passenger services after the night attack, including adjustments on Dnipro–Zaporizhzhia and Lviv–Dnipro routes and changes to the Dnipro–Chełm connection.
• Officials said 1,603 children remain in Donetsk settlements under compulsory evacuation, while Dnipropetrovsk authorities are expanding forced-removal lists for over 1,300 children, and a combat medic reported an FPV drone strike on an evacuation bus that caused one death and several injuries.