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Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi, commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, reported that as part of the Vivaldi offensive operation, Ukrainian forces liberated the settlements of Shandryholove and Derylove and established full control over Drobysheve in the Donetsk region.

Soldiers from the Spartan Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard destroyed a Russian Osa surface-to-air missile system near Volnovakha in the Donetsk region.

Over the past 24 hours, on September 13, the Russian army killed three residents of the Donetsk region.

Commander of the Third Army Corps, Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi, said Ukraine has a chance to hold the “belt of fortress cities” and improve its positions in some areas of the Donetsk front.

Russian troops deliberately attacked a fire and rescue unit in the Donetsk region, wounding four rescuers.

Three civilians were killed and 11 injured in Russian attacks on the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops killed four residents of the Donetsk region, and five more people were wounded.

Law enforcement officers have launched a pretrial investigation into the execution by Russian military personnel of two captured National Guard soldiers near Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.

One civilian was killed and nine others were injured in Russian airstrikes in the Donetsk region today.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 973 strikes on the Donetsk region, damaging 105 civilian facilities.

Ukrainian Defense Forces units have struck a Russian site used to store and launch attack drones in the area of temporarily occupied Donetsk.

Among the candidates for Russia’s State Duma in the illegal “elections” on September 20 in the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region are militants, looters, and “veterans” of the so-called Special Military Operation (SVO)”.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces to capture the entire Donbas by the end of 2026, but his "battlefield fiction" remains divorced from the reality of Ukraine's defensive capabilities. At the current pace of advance, Russian forces would not be able to capture the remaining part of the Donetsk region until the fall of 2032.

On July 27, Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated Oleg Shutov in temporarily occupied Donetsk. Shutov was an employee of the so-called Special Operations Center of the Ministry of State Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic and had previously been identified by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) as the direct perpetrator of the killing of Major General Maksym Shapoval.

Russian forces struck the village of Bilbasivka in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs, killing two people, including a 13-year-old child.

The Russians shelled the Donetsk region 30 times over the past 24 hours, wounding seven people.

Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck launch sites for Russian attack UAVs in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Crimea.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has tasked the military leadership with advancing to the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions by December 31 of this year.

Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the main and reserve command posts of the Russian army near temporarily occupied Donetsk with missiles on August 26 and overnight on August 27, 2026.

Operators of the 413th Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces Raid struck a number of important Russian military targets in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on August 24 and 25.