LOSS OF THE ENEMY

MAIN NEWS 🔸 The European Commission will allocate 160 million euros to support the energy industry of Ukraine. This amount will include about 100 million euros from frozen Russian assets in the EU.

🔸The Council approved the renaming of more than 320 settlements as part of de-Russification. We are talking about names that contain symbols of Russian imperial policy or do not meet the standards of the state language.

🔸President Volodymyr Zelenskyi may meet with US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during his visit to the USA next week. Zelensky is expected to speak at the UN Security Council meeting on September 24.

🔸The Russians shelled the Sumy region with artillery. As a result of the shelling of the Krasnopil community, three people were killed and another was injured. The previous evening, the Russian army carried out an airstrike on Sumy, as a result of which the city partially lost electricity and water supply.

🔸On the night of September 19, air defense forces shot down 42 Shaheds and a Kh-59/69 guided air missile, which Russian troops were using to attack Ukraine.

🔸Germany handed Ukraine a new large package of military aid, which, among other things, included Leopard 1 A5 tanks, GEPARD self-propelled guns, drones and more than 60,000 155 mm ammunition.

INFORMATION FROM THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY REGARDING THE SITUATION AT THE FRONT (22:00)
The situation at the front is characterized by the special activity of the enemy in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions, where the enemy uses all available forces and means to achieve their goals, but the implementation of the plans of the occupiers stands in the way of our indomitable defenders, who in extremely difficult conditions, with their professional actions, cause irreparable losses to the enemy , destroy it on land, water and in the air.

A total of 95 combat clashes took place since the beginning of the day.

During the day, a number of settlements in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions were affected by enemy terrorist attacks. The enemy fired artillery at Mykolaivka, Bobylivka, Ryasny, Progress, Zhuravka, and Vilna Sloboda; Yastrubyne, Pavlivka, Kekyne, Rudneve, Richki, and Velyka Rybytsa came under air strikes. The enemy also carried out 11 airstrikes on the territory of the Kursk region, using 14 air defense systems.

Today, in the Kharkiv direction, the Russian occupiers once tried to storm the defense lines of the Ukrainian army in the Vovchansk region.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy actively advanced four times on the positions of our units in the area of ​​Synkivka, Stelmakhivka, and Glushkivka, one skirmish is ongoing. Ukrainian soldiers continue to maintain their defense.

Today, in the Lyman direction, the invading army launched seven attacks on Ukrainian positions near Makiivka, Cherneshchyna, Nevsky, and Torsky. Five battles ended without success for the enemy, two more are ongoing.

In the Siversky area, near the settlements of Verkhnyokamianske, Ivano-Daryivka, and Vyimka, defenders of the Ukrainian land repelled three attacks by the occupying army, four more attacks are ongoing.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders stormed the positions of our troops near Kurdyumivka. The enemy’s attack was repulsed.

In the Toretsk direction, the number of enemy attacks increased to seven. The enemy concentrated its efforts in the area of ​​Toretsk, Shcherbinivka and Nelipivka, where four skirmishes took place, three enemy attacks are still ongoing.

In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers, with the support of aviation, have already made 22 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Novotoretsk, Grodivka, Myrolyubivka, Mykolaivka, Novogrodika, and Marynivka. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have repelled 16 enemy attacks so far, six attacks are still in progress. Enemy losses are being refined.

Fighting continues near Tsukuryny, Georgiyivka, Kostyantynivka, and Katerynivka in the Kurakhiv direction. According to detailed information, 13 out of 36 attacks of the occupying army have been repelled in this area. Fierce battles are taking place.

In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, attacked the positions of our units near Vugledar, Rivnopol, and Katerynivka four times. Two skirmishes are ongoing.

In the Orihiv direction, the occupiers made three attempts to attack our units near Pyatikhatok and in the direction of Novoandriivka. The terrorist army also fired unguided aerial missiles at Kamianske.

In the Dnieper direction, the enemy carried out an airstrike on the Mykolaivka area of ​​the Kherson region. Also, the aggressor does not stop trying to knock out our units from their occupied positions, so today he carried out three offensive operations, currently one battle continues.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY “Rescue operations are currently underway in Sumy after a Russian bomb hit. A boarding house for the elderly was hit. According to the currently available information, there were almost 300 people in the building – more than 200 patients and 60 staff members. The evacuation of people is ongoing and it is checked whether people are under the rubble It is known that at least one person died. Russia could not help but know that this boarding house for the elderly is not a military facility almost 90 guided air bombs on our cities, on Ukrainian positions. We will definitely respond to this terror.”

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Together we are a force! Glory to Ukraine!