Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 160 engagements on September 24 and said Russia launched 5,846 kamikaze drones and dozens of air and missile strikes, with 80 clashes reported by mid‑afternoon on September 25.
• Ukrainian intelligence sources said sea drones hit logistics and oil‑loading facilities at Novorossiysk and Tuapse, disrupting Transneft and CPC terminals, a claim media reported that has not been independently verified.
• Danish officials closed multiple western airports after overnight drone incursions for a second time this week and called the incidents a hybrid attack by a professional operator, while Norway reported a similar disruption in Oslo and no attribution has been established.
• Local authorities reported civilian infrastructure damage and risks, including about 30,000 customers without power in Nizhyn after a drone strike and mined road exits and casualties around Beryslav in Kherson region.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said he asked President Donald Trump for an unnamed weapons system and that Trump supports Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy and weapons‑production targets, as Zelensky also briefed a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation on air‑defense needs and sanctions.