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War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on September 15, 2026.

A fresh Russian drone attack on Kyiv sparked a warehouse fire in the Sviatoshynskyi district early Sept. 16.

Zelensky urged parliament to approve seven bills tied to billions in partner funding, warning that difficult measures are necessary to sustain Ukraine’s defense.

Russia analyst Paul Goble says the Duma elections will test Putin’s control, while the Ukraine war is exposing deeper weaknesses in his political system.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Russia is deliberately testing Europe through hybrid attacks and urged stronger sanctions, intelligence cooperation and tighter restrictions on Russian networks operating inside the bloc.

President Volodymyr Zelensky formally dismissed Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko after 317 lawmakers backed his removal.

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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) reported 219 combat engagements by 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Sept. 15, with the heaviest fighting concentrated on the Pokrovsk axis.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Sept. 15, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia targeted his plane twice with drones in recent weeks, including during travel through Moldovan airspace.

Ukraine has appealed to allies for locomotives compatible with its 1,520mm rail gauge amid repeated Russian strikes.

Russian forces have launched coordinated missile and drone strikes on key Ukrainian industrial and commercial hubs, including an ArcelorMittal steel plant, an Eva retail sorting center, and a BaDM pharmaceutical warehouse.

The scale of the search operation at the site of an unidentified drone crash near the Budeswehr’s strategic military airbase indicates possible concern that this may be yet another potential act of sabotage against a NATO facility.

Ukraine’s energy regulator has approved draft retail-market rules that would allow smart-meter users to opt for dynamic electricity pricing.

Eisuke Mori, Japan’s House of Representatives Speaker, addressed Ukraine’s parliament, theVerkhovna Rada, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, underscoring Tokyo’s political, financial, humanitarian, and reconstruction support for Kyiv as Russia’s full-scale war continu…

The Netherlands presented its 2027 foreign-affairs budgets to parliament on Tuesday Sept. 15, announcing an additional €327 million (roughly $377.5 million) for Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery through 2027-29.

Ukraine will strengthen protection for railways, fuel stations and other critical enterprises targeted by Russian strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Sweden’s preliminary election results give the center-left opposition a narrow advantage.

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Russian sources are increasingly using AI-altered videos to exaggerate territorial gains and undermine Ukrainian battlefield successes.

Ukraine successfully tested another interceptor designed to counter Russia’s jet-powered attack drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

Ukrainian drones are hammering Russia’s oil industry, forcing major refineries offline, squeezing domestic fuel supplies and pushing Moscow to restrict exports — while Trump blames Kyiv for fuel shortages and rising prices.

Lavrov claimed the Kremlin’s war could have ended a year ago if the United States and Europe had upheld supposed agreements reached at the 2025 Trump-Putin summit in Alaska; no peace agreement was announced after the meeting.

Ukraine’s parliament voted on Tuesday to dismiss Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, approving a motion submitted by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Since Aug. 27, Kyiv has faced near-continuous Russian drone attacks, disrupting transport, schools, businesses and daily life.

Russia and China have condemned the US deployment of on-orbit space weapons, with Moscow calling for the “complete demilitarisation” of space.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described Trump’s proposed energy truce as a “very good idea” on Tuesday.

A Russian drone struck a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train near Ukraine’s border with Poland, though all 206 passengers were evacuated safely.

Trump’s Belarus envoy John Coale reportedly told Minsk during an ongoing visit that the White House is working to unlock frozen funds held by US banks, with Belarus’s Lukashenko naming the release of about $44 million in Citibank as preconditions for furt…

Russia has lost an estimated 301,030 service members killed or wounded since the beginning of 2026, Ukraine’s General Staff said.

Listeners to the UK-based WWII podcast “We have ways of making you talk” can see that Vladimir Putin, the self-avowed student of history, has ironically failed to identify that his disastrous invasion of Ukraine has repeated many of the same missteps that…

Trump said Monday that Kyiv and Moscow agreed to an energy truce – Kyiv says yes but only if others can guarantee an actual and lasting truce, while Moscow has stayed quiet.

Russia is signaling openness to renewed Ukraine talks, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying Moscow “has something to say.”

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps has launched the ‘Vivaldi’ offensive in Donetsk, targeting Russian infiltration tactics.

Eastern Germany is increasingly skeptical of military support for Ukraine, with 54% of respondents calling Berlin’s weapons deliveries excessive, compared with 39% in the west, a new ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll shows.

Kremlin aide Nikolai Patrushev claimed Polish statehood would cease to exist within “two or three days” if Warsaw entered a military conflict with Russia.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said 19 companies connected to Russia’s KRET radio-electronics holding remain outside all international sanctions lists.

Prosecutor General Kravchenko, who found himself at the epicenter of a corruption scandal, left Ukraine together with his wife and sent notices of suspicion to the heads of the anti-corruption bodies that were investigating people close to him.

A Russian warship in international waters off the coast of Denmark fired flares at a Danish Air Force Fennec helicopter engaged in routine photographic surveillance of the vessel, according to the Danish Armed Forces Command.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reluctant to agree to a reciprocal halt in attacks on Ukrainian and Russian energy infrastructure before winter, people familiar with Kremlin thinking told the FT.

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Trump’s proposed $5,000 “dividend” for every adult US citizen has drawn criticism across Europe.

Ukraine launched a major drone and missile attack on Russia, reportedly hitting a Rosneft refinery and other facilities.

Belarus remains a strategic pressure point in Russia’s war on Ukraine, with Alexander Lukashenko balancing dependence on Moscow against domestic opposition to joining the conflict.

Russian forces launched 200 drones at Ukraine overnight, including Shahed-type and jet-powered UAVs.

War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on September 14, 2026.

NATO fighter jets destroyed a drone over Lithuania in the latest security incident along the alliance’s eastern flank, while Poland launched preventive aviation operations during renewed Russian attacks on Ukraine.

Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to halt strikes on critical infrastructure if Russia genuinely reciprocates, as the US pushes for restraint and Congress advances tougher sanctions on Moscow.

Daniel Fried told Kyiv Post that Russia’s strike near the Polish border was designed to intimidate Ukraine’s Western backers, but said it would not deter them from returning to the country.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed support for Russia’s war against Ukraine in a letter to Vladimir Putin, calling it “sacred” as reports point to possible additional North Korean troop deployments.

Trump Jr. and Bettina Trump confirmed that Russian businessman Umar Kremlev, who received Russia’s Order of Friendship from President Vladimir Putin in April, paid for two nights of their wedding celebrations.