On 21 September, the Defence Forces of Ukraine shot down 36 Russian cruise missiles out of 43 launched by 10 Tu-95MS strategic aircraft from the area west of Engels airfield. Source
Russia & Ukraine
On the night of 21 September, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the Navy conducted a special operation in the temporarily occupied Crimea, inflicting a powerful drone strike on the Saky airfield. Source
11 Su-24 tactical bombers armed with Storm Shadow attacked Crimea – this is what Rybar, which monitors the war from the scene of the events, reports today. Source
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hit out at commentators who were talking about the allegedly slow pace of the Ukrainian counteroffensive on Thursday. Source
According to @Sprinter99800, a Russian Lancet kamikaze drone flew at least 70 km to a Ukrainian military airfield in Dnipropetrovsk region and damaged a MiG-29. Source
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that more than just victory is needed for people to come back to Ukraine: the refugees themselves have to want to come back. Source
Davyd Arakhamiia, the leader of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ruling party, Sluha Narodu (Servant of the People), has said that Ukrainians liable for military service who left Ukraine on the basis of forged certificates of their unfitness for service may be extradited home. Source
The sounds of explosions were heard again in the Russian city of Pskov. The region’s governor reported the sighting of an unidentified object. Source
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces killed 45 Russian occupiers and destroyed 15 pieces of Russian military equipment on the Tavriia front. Moreover, the Ukrainians wounded 135 Russian invaders. Source
It has become apparent that a video has surfaced on the web, which displays a German Leopard 2, participating in active warfare within Ukrainian territories. Source
The 10 US-made Abrams tanks are expected to arrive in Ukraine in mid-September. Source
Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missile system hit Russian S-300 surface-to-air launcher – information confirmed by both Ukrainian and Russian sources. Source
New satellite images showing the aftermath of the attack on the airbase near Pskov, where Il-76 aircraft were destroyed, have emerged online. Source
Reports are surfacing that a Russian KILO class submarine under the command of the Russian Navy has potentially been targeted by Ukrainian forces in Sevastopol. Source
The US Department of Defense has ordered AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missiles for Ukraine from Raytheon company. Source
First FPV drone comes from the left side of the tank and directly cuts into the turret. The hit was actually accurate but the cumulative charge does not explode Source
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have confirmed that the Ukrainian Defence Forces advanced in a counteroffensive on 31 August near the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast and in the western part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Source
Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels published a short video of the already evacuated first destroyed Danish 155mm Caesar SPH on a Tatra T815 chassis. Source
In a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered a set of concrete proposals to resume the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Source
Su-24 foiled an amphibious operation by Ukrainian armed forces in an attempt to capture Cape Tarkhankut. This was claimed by Russian think tank Rybar in Twitter Source