Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff said there were 184 engagements in the past day, with fighting heaviest near Pokrovsk, Siverskyi and Novopavlivka and thousands of kamikaze drones reported in use.
• Ukraine’s drone and special operations units struck the Kirishi oil refinery overnight, reporting explosions and a fire, while intelligence sources say GUR drones hit Ufa’s Bashneft facility on September 12.
• Ukrainian intelligence reports combined GUR–SSO actions damaged rail lines on the Orel–Kursk and St. Petersburg–Pskov routes, halting traffic, causing a deadly blast for Rosgvardiya personnel and derailing fuel tankers, with details still being verified.
• Romania said F-16s tracked a Russian drone inside its airspace for about 50 minutes before it exited, as Poland earlier logged multiple violations that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called unacceptable.
• Police opened a criminal case after an explosion in a freight wagon between Vasylkiv and Boyarka prompted rail rerouting, with officials later citing detonation of munitions in a military train and no reported casualties.