Timeline of war: day 216 of russia’s war in Ukraine

Key events

Ukrainian Army's successes

🇺🇦 The General Staff confirmed that the Armed Forces entered Kupyansk-Vuzlovy. russia used the railway station in the village to transfer forces to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

🇺🇦 Pisky-Radkivski of the Kharkiv region has been liberated from russian troops, the Boriv community reports. Currently, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are cleaning and demining. Pisky-Radkivski is located on the left bank of the Oskil River, where russian troops had previously tried to gain a foothold by building a new line of defense.

🇺🇦 The village of Ridkodub in the Donetsk region is under the control of our troops.

📌 Seven Ural trucks were destroyed and disabled in Kherson. An enemy barge was destroyed in the Kherson region, and fire control of the bridge in Nova Kakhovka was established.

📌 Up to 10 units of military equipment and more than 20 occupiers were destroyed in Melitopol.

📌 In Tokmak and Chernihivka districts of the Zaporizhzhia region, a russian S-300 air defense system, five units of military equipment were destroyed, and more than 50 occupiers were injured.

📌 The Armed Forces of the russian federation demilitarized 5 ammunition warehouses and 1 headquarters of the russian military in the south during the day.

📌 Today, the Ukrainian military shot down a russian Su-25 aircraft over the Kherson region.

📌 Our aviation and units of the missile and artillery troops carried out more than 140 fire missions, in particular, they struck the Buk-M3 air defense system deployment point in the Berislavsky district and the concentration of weapons and equipment near Lyubymivka in the Kakhovsky district (Kherson region). Confirmed enemy losses are 8 rockets, a 120-caliber towed mortar, and an infantry fighting vehicle. The rest of the enemy losses are being investigated.

📌 Yesterday, air defense shot down an enemy missile over the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Three Iranian drones that attacked Odesa at night were destroyed in the Odesa region.
3 more Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were shot down over Mykolaiv Oblast.
📌 Aviation of the Defense Forces made 28 strikes. Damage to more than 20 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment and 7 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems was confirmed.

📌 As of yesterday, the losses of 1,210 russian officers have already been confirmed. Over the past 30 days, 6.1 officers die daily, 22% of them senior officers.

📌 In seven months, the Armed Forces captured more than 2,000 units of enemy equipment. In particular, there are 732 armored vehicles, 392 tanks, 182 artillery systems, and 41 self-propelled guns.

📌 The SSU detained a russian agent who carried out kamikaze drone strikes in the south of Odesa.

russia's crimes

📌 At night, the occupiers attacked Kryvyi Rih. The Kh-59 missile hit the airport. Its infrastructure is destroyed. Further use of the airfield and equipment is impossible. No people were injured during the attack.

The russians struck Nikopol again. 3 communities came under fire from almost 90 shells.

📌 russians shelled Mykolaiv with Tornado-S rocket launchers, damaging a number of civilian objects in the center of the city. Shops and residential buildings and Manganariiv Square were damaged. According to preliminary data, no one was injured due to the shelling.

📌 russists fired 10 S-300 missiles at Zaporizhzhia. The occupiers hit infrastructure objects. The power line was damaged.

📌 Sumshchyna. On September 26 and 27, the russian military shelled the Shalyginsk community. They used "Hrads," mines, and automatic weapons.

📌 Details of yesterday's enemy attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk have appeared.

In Kramatorsk, rockets hit the city center, 4 people were injured. In Slovyansk, a residential area in the city's center came under fire.

This afternoon Slovyansk was again shelled by the occupiers. The private housing sector was affected.

📌 Today, Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, was shelled again.

📌 russia is at war with civilians. The occupiers damaged 349 heat supply facilities in Ukraine. 11 thermal power plants were affected, four of which were destroyed.

📌 In the Kharkiv Region, in Dvorichna, the driver of the Emergency Medical Assistance Center was killed during the shelling in the morning; the man was just going to work.

📌 Missiles arrived in Kupyansk today. A church school, an outbuilding, and a shop were on fire. No military facilities. 5 people were hospitalized.

📌 The photo shows a kindergarten after the russian occupation in Kapitolivka, Kharkiv region.

📌 The military of the russian federation completely closed the occupied part of the Kherson region to entry and exit.

📌 British intelligence believes that putin will announce the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine to the russian federation on September 30. The so-called "referendums" in these territories should end today.

📌 russians started mobilizing people in occupied Mariupol. "The Rrussians need new "cannon fodder" to cover their positions, which they are surrendering due to the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces," the Mariupol City Council commented on yet another russian crime.

Life considering war

📌 The Ministry of Reintegration has launched a chatbot to help Ukrainians who need evacuation or have been deported to russia.

📌 The "Yellow Ribbon" resistance movement created the "Together" chatbot. Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories, who are also ready to resist, can now join the "Yellow Ribbon" at this link.

📌 In Kyiv, a flash mob, "Demolish me completely," was launched for the dismantling of monuments to russians. And in Kharkiv, the monument to Pushkin was covered with red paint.

📌 Approximately 6,200 sailors are waiting in line to receive documents for departure abroad. About 1,800 have already received permission.

📌 Provision of legal services in the territories occupied by the russian federation, according to russia's laws, wants to be equated with collaborationism. Such a draft law has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. Lawyers, notaries, and other jurists will face three to six years imprisonment for such actions.

📌 Derussification in action! In Dnipro, the city transport board was promptly replaced. Now, instead of the russian composer Hlinka, the final stop of many routes is called St. Queen Elizabeth.

📌 A new section will appear on the Wall of Memory in Kyiv, where you can independently post a photo of a loved one who died in the war with russia.

Solutions to win

Foreign partners' support

💡 The US Congress reached a preliminary agreement on providing additional aid to Ukraine in the amount of approximately $12 billion.

💡 The Ukrainian diaspora in Chicago handed over another batch of aid to our fighters. This time they bought 100 powerful four-wheel drive pickups. The first 14 cars have already arrived in Ukraine.

💡 American non-profit organizations issued grants worth $180,000 to support more than 130 Ukrainian artists affected by russia's full-scale invasion.

💡 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Kyiv — she introduced the investigators who will work in Izyum. Already tomorrow, experts will go to the site.

💡 The Netherlands will strengthen its support for Ukraine through mobilization in the russian federation and pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories: "More weapons, more sanctions, more isolation of russia."

💡 New Zealand announced sanctions against 19 people of putin's entourage.

💡 Foreign supermarket chains will create shelves with Ukrainian products. This is an initiative of Ucare, which was created to promote domestic manufacturers to the international market.

💡 Microsoft limited the possibility of updating computers to Windows 11 for russians.

💡 Meta identified more than 60 russian fake sites masquerading as well-known publications such as the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Bild. The company also blocked 1,600 fake accounts.

Ukrainians, let's unite! 

💡 Ukrainian runners in Berlin made a real flash mob in support of our country: the athletes wrote the names of Ukrainian cities on their numbers. The flash mob was called Call me Mariupol and united people from completely different cities of Ukraine.

💡 IT courses for combatants will be launched in the capital. Soldiers who lost their health during the war and received the first or second group of disabilities will be able to join the study of computer technologies. They will be taught by teachers of the Faculty of Informatics of the "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy."

💡 A mobile hospital will be built in Trostyanets, Sumy Oblast. The building with an area of ​​about 800 square meters will be manufactured in Germany. It will work while the damaged building of the local medical facility is being restored.

💡 And the hospital in Kropyvnytsky received a device for skin transplantation, which will help treat both civilians and wounded soldiers. A farmer-entrepreneur from Kirovohrad Oblast gave UAH 100,000 for its purchase.