946 days ago the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The Russians carried out a massive drone attack on Kyiv. According to British intelligence, attacks on three weapons depots carried out by Ukraine in recent days resulted in the largest losses of ammunition possessed by Russia since the beginning of the war. Here's what happened in and around Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
> Russia carried out several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv on the night from Sunday to Monday. Air defense Ukraine it repelled attacks for several hours, the Ukrainian military reported.
Reuters witnesses heard numerous explosions in Kiev, which sounded like air defense systems operating. Kiev, its surroundings and the entire eastern part of Ukraine were subject to an air raid alert from around 1 a.m.
“There are many hostile unmanned aerial vehicles over the capital and in its vicinity,” said the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, on Telegram.
> The Russian authorities announced on Sunday that 125 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight, including 67 in the Volgograd Oblast, several hundred kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
> Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Głuków area, west of the Ukrainian salient in the Kursk region. In turn, Russian forces made progress towards Toretsk and Pokrovsk – reports ISW.
> The Ukrainian armed forces carried out an attack on an ammunition warehouse in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia on the night from Saturday to Sunday. “Kotluban, Volgograd Oblast. The ammunition warehouse of the Main Directorate of Missile and Artillery Weapons of the Russian Ministry of Defense was attacked. Iranian ballistic missiles and launchers were stored there,” said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, on Telegram.
> The attacks carried out by Ukraine on three weapons warehouses within a few days resulted in the largest losses of ammunition held by Russia since the beginning of the war, and will result in at least short-term disruptions in supplies to the front, the British Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
On the night of September 20-21, Ukrainian troops used drones to strike ammunition depots in Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar Krai and in Toropets in the Tver Oblast. On September 18, there was a successful attack on another ammunition depot in Toropec, which almost certainly destroyed at least 30,000. tons of ammunition stored in open warehouses and bunkers.
> Four people were killed and seven injured in the last 24 hours as a result of Russian attacks in the Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine, said the head of the regional authorities, Oleh Syniehubov, in a message on Telegram. “As a result of the attack with guided bombs (on the town of Słatyne), a single-family house, farm buildings and an educational facility were damaged. Seven people aged 25 to 71 were injured. Three people died,” Syniehubov wrote. Also shot at were: the village of Kozacza Łopan, where a 61-year-old man was killed and three women aged 55, 61 and 62 were injured.
> The management of the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had launched a new attack on a nearby electrical substation, destroying a transformer.
The Zaporozhye power plant, the largest in Europe with six reactors, was seized by Russian forces at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Each side regularly accuses the other of attacking or planning an attack on the plant.
> Denmark and the EU will provide EUR 560 million to the Ukrainian defense industry for the production of weapons and military equipment, which should be delivered to the front at the turn of the year, the Danish Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday.
Main photo source: EPA/KATERYNA KLOCHKO