A total of 103 combat clashes have taken place at the front since day-start, with the situation remaining most tense in the Kurakhove and Pokrovsk axes. — Ukrinform.

Ukraine's air force said on Thursday it had shot down all 42 drones and one of four missiles used by Russia during overnight attacks. Air defences went into operation in nine Ukrainian regions, the air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app nearly 31 months after Russia's full-scale invasion.

The deep Ukrainian offensive into Russia's Kursk Oblast is becoming a watershed and opening a new page in Europe's largest military conflict since 1945.

Russia has lost 1,020 soldiers killed and wounded, 6 artillery systems and 2 tanks. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook Details: The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 17 September 2024 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed.

Russia launched three Kh-59 missiles and 52 drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on September 18. Ukrainian air defense forces managed to shoot down 46 of the drones, according to Ukraine's Air Force.

Around 1 million killed, wounded in Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, WSJ reports ・Ukraine destroys Russian ammunition depots near occupied Mariupol, Navy says ・None of Ukraine's plans to end the war envisages ceasefire,