Timeline of war: day 218 of russia’s war in Ukraine

KEY EVENTS

Ukrainian army's successes

📌 In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Ukraine's Defense Forces destroyed three S-300 anti-aircraft missile complexes.

📌 As a result of fire damage to the occupiers in the Sofiivka area of the Berdiansk district in the Zaporizhzhia region, the russian forces lost more than 40 wounded and about 15 killed.

📌 Ukraine's aviation defense forces made 16 strikes in the last 24 hours. It has been confirmed that three strongholds, ten places of accumulation of weapons, and military equipment have been struck.

📌 Our anti-aircraft defense destroyed the missiles launched in the cities of Ukraine. One missile was shot down in the Zaporizhzhia region, one more in the Kryvyi Rih district, and two rockets were destroyed in the area of ​​Synelnykove.

📌 Today, around 5:00 p.m., two russian Su-25 attack aircraft were shot down in the Bashtanka district of the Mykolaiv region.

📌 Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck four areas of the russian forces in Charivne, Oleshky, and Kherson, two radio-electronic warfare stations in the Beryslav district, and a control bridge in Nova Kakhovka.

📌 The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) monitors the situation in the Lyman district of the Donetsk region. According to analysts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced to the west, north, and northeast of Lyman. They are working on completing the encirclement of russian troops in the city and along the northern bank of the Siverskyi Donets River.

Currently, supplies of the russian army in Lyman can only pass through a narrow corridor through the settlement of Torske, which is already under fire from the Ukrainian military.

📌 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the russian occupiers in the areas of 12 settlements within a day.

📌 In the Kharkiv region, the aerial surveillance of Ukraine's State Border Service eliminated a tank, a Tiger armored car, two trucks, and about 60 occupiers.

📌 During the two days of "people's satellite," bought with Ukrainian donations, the russians lost 60 armored vehicles for an amount greater than the entire project's cost. One satellite fully works for our defense's needs; when needed, almost two dozen more are involved in the work.

📌 The russian command transferred 80% of its troops, near the border with Finland and the Baltic states, to Ukraine. This is explained by the significant losses of the russians in the war.

📌 Ukraine and russia are conducting negotiations on the exchange of "all for all," Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov reported.

Today, Ukraine returned six more of our prisoners—4 marines and two civilians.

📌 Ukraine's Security service opened criminal cases against 16 traitors who helped organize pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

📌 Members of the Atesh underground movement, which includes Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians, and russians, mobilized to the russian army. They promise to be socially helpful: merge data on positions, formations, soldiers, and equipment, as well as arrange sabotage. "We will destroy the russian army from the inside," the movement declared.

russia's crimes

📌 Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of a night rocket attack on Dnipro City, four people died, including two children. Five more were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl. More than 60 private houses and several high-rise buildings were damaged in the city—a mutilated market, buses, cars, and power lines.

One of the russian Kh-59 missiles hit a civil infrastructure object in Kryvyi Rih. The destruction at the grain processing enterprise is significant. Several missiles were shot down.

Nineteen people were injured due to russia's morning shelling with prohibited cluster shells in the Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The russians struck the industrial infrastructure in the Zelenodolsk community and damaged the administration building.

📌 In Mykolaiv, a museum and an educational institution were damaged after a rocket attack.

Towards evening, an explosion occurred near a public transport stop. The city was bombarded with cluster shells. Two people died, and 12 were injured.

📌 On September 28, the russians killed six civilians in the Donetsk region. 4 more people were injured.

📌 On the afternoon of September 29, the russian army launched four missile strikes on Kramatorsk. 11 people were wounded.

📌 Yesterday, the enemy shelled the border of the Sumy region and the Chernihiv region with mortars, artillery, and drones more than a hundred times. The fire was coming from russian settlements.

Today was a series of repeated shelling. An animal complex in Sosnivka (Sumy region) was struck, and power lines were damaged.

📌 During the day, seven people were hospitalized with injuries in the Kupiansk district in the Kharkiv region. A 26-year-old man was injured in a mine explosion in the Izium district.

📌 Tomorrow at 3:00 p.m., the Kremlin wants to sign agreements on the inclusion of the occupied territories of Ukraine into russia. This is a criminal act that the civilized world will never recognize.

Life considering war

📌 Three Ukrainians got into this year's 100 Leaders of the Future by the American publication TIME. These are the heads of the Ministry of Digital and Infrastructure heads, Mykhailo Fedorov and Oleksandr Kubrakov, and mathematician Maryna Viazovska. Fedorov and Viazovska got into the Innovators section, and Kubrakov is in Leaders.

📌 International money transfers will become cheaper for Ukrainians. On the initiative of the European Commission, the fee for transfers through official channels will be reduced to 3%.

📌 Ukraine's Rozetka retail company launched delivery to Poland. The service is available for select categories such as home goods, hygiene products, clothing and footwear, food, tools, souvenirs, and books.

📌 Zelensky convenes an urgent meeting of the National Security Council on September 30.

SOLUTION TO WIN

Foreign partners' support

💡 The Pentagon announced a new tranche of $1.1 billion in military aid to Ukraine. The package included 18 HIMARS surface-to-air missiles, 150 off-road vehicles, radars, and anti-UAV systems.

💡 France will hand over three structures to restore bridges to the Chernihiv region.

💡 Israel accepted the first seriously wounded Ukrainian soldiers for treatment.

💡 German intelligence provides Ukraine with information from special services that can be used for military purposes.

💡 If putin uses nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine, NATO may retaliate, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said.

💡 German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen came to Lviv for a visit. She visited a mobile prosthesis workshop funded by the German government and the Maltese Aid Service.

💡 Finland will close its border to russian tourists tonight.

💡 The French company will help restore the military town in Hostomel. Damaged structures will be dismantled, and materials will be recycled for new construction. This is how they plan to rebuild residential buildings, a school, and a kindergarten.

Ukrainians, let's unite! 

💡 Employees of Zhytomyr's utility enterprises started making pot-belly stoves for military personnel. As a material, they use secondary raw materials, like gas cylinders and metal pipes. The plan is to make half a thousand ovens.

💡 In Kropyvnytskyi, 10-year-old Davyd, fond of playing the drums, decided to help raise money for a pickup truck for the military. In one evening, he raised more than 7,600 hryvnias for the army. A boy plays on the city streets at the weekend.

💡 In Ivanychy, in the Volyn region, caring residents gather and together knit warm socks for the soldiers on the front line.

💡 Residents of five communities in the Kirovohrad region bought construction materials and sent them to the Kharkiv region to rebuild homes after russian shelling. They decided to help because they were not indifferent to the fate of Kharkiv residents whose houses were damaged by russian rockets: "This is the call of the soul."

💡 A specialized center will be set up in Lviv to accommodate migrants with disabilities or who need treatment. The premises of the former medical institution on Zamarstinivska Street will be renovated.

💡 The first social atelier is launched in Ivano-Frankivsk. Sewists sew clothes for the military, IDPs, and low-income citizens.

💡 Zhytomyr volunteer Liudmila Yanushevich sewed more than 70 Ukrainian flags in ten days. A woman sews blue and yellow flags in her kitchen and gives them to the military.

💡 Voluntary organization Solomianka Kittens will hold training on pre-medical care on Shchekavytsia Hill in Kyiv. They will teach how to stop critical bleeding and apply tourniquets. "Training, of course, is not an orgy, but there will be scissors, groans, and tears!" the team promises.