Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 208 combat engagements on Sept. 15, with the Pokrovsk sector the fiercest as defenders repelled 54 assaults.
• Air defenses downed 89 of 113 Russian attack drones overnight, yet Tornado-S rockets struck Zaporizhzhia, killing two and injuring 14, and damaging 10 apartment buildings and 12 houses.
• Regional authorities reported at least seven civilians killed and 49 injured across Ukraine in the past day, including a fatal strike on a farm in Mykolaiv Oblast.
• Officials in Chernihiv said Russian forces hit a site twice, injuring four firefighters responding to a post-strike blaze and damaging civilian infrastructure.
• Ukrainian operations reportedly disrupted Russian logistics with rail-line blasts causing derailments in Oryol and Leningrad regions, while a drone attack forced a unit offline at the Kirishi oil refinery.