UKRAINE – Yarova, Donetsk oblast, has reportedly been liberated.

Ukrainian Forces advancing towards Lyman...

The Ukrainian troops have extended the bridgehead near Lyman to connect it to the Svyatohirsk area, watch Lyman when Drobysheve and/or Yampil are liberated.

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🗣 Oleksiy Sorokin, Journalist, editor, manager of Kyiv Independent today on Twitter:

"There are videos of Ukrainian troops crossing both the Oskil River and Siverskyi Donets.

More information will be made public soon, but when this is confirmed, remaining Russian troops in Kharkiv Oblast will be in big trouble."

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URGENT – Turkish raids on the positions of the Syrian army and the Kurds in northern Syria, killing 3 people.

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Dozens of Iranian IRGC cargo planes have landed in Russian airports since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the last one on September 4th with an undeclared purpose.

Note: Russia is using Iranian-made drones in the Ukraine.

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🚨🇮🇷Iran continues to deploy weapons and drones to Russia. This week alone, 5 cargo flights from airlines owned by the Iranian military and IRGC landed in Moscow.

🔗 Terror Alarm (@Terror\_Alarm)

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Hezbollah 🇮🇷 terror puppet Hassan Nasrallah met with Houthi 🇮🇷 terror puppet Mohammed Abdul Salam in Lebanon 🇱🇧. Nasrallah’s cowardly underground hiding hole has a fake window and curtains.

🔗 Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner)

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September 17 Assessment Highlight:

Ukrainian forces appear to be expanding positions east of the #Oskil River and north of the Siverskyi Donets River that could allow them to envelop Russian troops holding around #Lyman. 1/3 http://isw.pub/RusCampaignSept17

🔗 ISW (@TheStudyofWar)

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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: a destroyed Russian T-64 tank sitting on the bank of the Oskil river in #Kharkiv

🔗 Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge)

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China's 'soaring dragon' drone used for first time to harass Taiwan

The high-altitude drone does air reconnaissance but can also provide targeting data for anti-ship ballistic missiles. It flew over Taiwan’s southwest Air Defence Identification Zone.

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UPDATE – Russian Security Council: Moscow and Beijing agree on further cooperation between the Ministries of Defense and the General Staff, with a focus on conducting joint exercise.

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Ukraine says Russian missile struck close from nuclear plant

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile strike hit a facility close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine Monday, causing no damage to its reactors but damaging other industrial equipment in what the country’s atomic energy operator denounced as an act of “nuclear terrorism.”

Energoatom, which operates Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, said the strike early Monday hit an industrial complex that includes the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant in the southerm Mykolaiv region.

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🇺🇦⚡ UKRAINE WAR REPORT 🇺🇦⚡

📌 Russian SU25 shot down in Kherson region

📌 Prisoners of PMC Wagner were captured near Bakhmut

📌 In Kherson and the region in the morning mass checks of houses and apartments by orcs. They are looking for weapons, ammunition, explosives, they practically do not check documents.

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BREAKING – Ukraine: At least 13 people were killed as a result of the shelling of the Baku Commissars Square in occupied city of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine using NATO systems with a caliber of 155 mm.

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BREAKING – Ukraine: In Zaporozhye, a workshop for servicing US-made HIMARS missile systems was destroyed.

A Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the Kherson region.

Two US AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down in the air near Novaya Kakhovka.

This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense

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SYRIA – The US coalition base, located at the Omar oil field in the eastern Deir Ezzor region has been attacked with rockets on September 18 by Iranian proxies.

There are no reports of casualties.

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Since 6 September, during 5-6 days, Ukrainian troops have liberated the territory of 8,000 square kilometres. The majority of the liberated territory is a part of Ukraine’s northeast (Kharkiv region), small amounts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east,  and an area of the Kherson region on the right banks of the Dnipro river. Kharkiv region is almost fully liberated from Russian aggressors.

Several thousand Russian soldiers surrendered and are now prisoners of war. So high is the number, much more than expected that there is a problem placing them and providing them with their basic needs.

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At least 40 Kyrgyz servicemen were killed so far in the armed conflict with Tajikistan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan Marat Imankulov announced at a press conference on September 19.

In some parts of the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan, heavy military equipment is being withdrawn from the border, but the process remains "difficult," the head of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan told journalists.

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