Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 184 engagements on September 17, citing 95 airstrikes, 153 guided bombs, 6,097 kamikaze drones and 4,766 artillery and other strikes, including 174 from MLRS.
• Ukrainian forces reported stopping 69 assault and offensive actions on the Pokrovsk axis and 22 on the Novopavlivka axis, underscoring those sectors as the day’s heaviest fighting.
• Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said they struck the Volgograd refinery and reported its operations halted, a claim not yet corroborated by other sources.
• Russia’s Bashkortostan leader said two drones hit Gazprom’s Salavat refinery, triggering a fire with no casualties reported as damage assessments continued.
• Inside Ukraine, rail routes were modified with delays after night strikes, authorities expanded mandatory child evacuations in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk officials said 1,603 children remain in evacuation zones, the SBU detained an alleged agent couple in Zaporizhzhia, and a DSNS unit in Nizhyn was hit with one dead and two wounded.