[Korrespondent] 21.59 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Sunday. The parties agreed to hold a meeting in New York. The head of state reported this on Facebook.
"Just spoke with President Trump. An important conversation, and we managed to discuss many things. We agreed on a meeting in New York, and this meeting can change a lot. There is a diplomatic dynamic," he said.
18.59 In Kherson, Russian troops attacked a minibus with an FPV drone. This was reported by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
A 37-year-old man was injured in the attack. He was diagnosed with blast trauma, closed head injury, acubarotrauma, and acute stress reaction.
16.12 Russian troops carried out an artillery strike on Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, in the morning. There were deaths and injuries as a result of the shelling. The city council was informed about the consequences of the attack.
As noted, at around 10:10 a.m., the Lazurny neighborhood came under fire. The Russian army fired three artillery shells at the city.
A woman born in 1956 died as a result of the attack. A man born in 1961 was also injured and is receiving necessary assistance.
15.59 A Russian drone crashed in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital, probably in a non-residential area. This was reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.
"A UAV crashed in the Holosiivskyi district. Previously, in the area of ​​non-residential buildings," the mayor noted.
15.11 On September 20, Russian forces carried out an airstrike on an evacuation point in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast. This was reported by Yevhen Kaplin, head of the Proliska humanitarian mission.
"Russian terrorists carried out an aerial bomb strike on an evacuation point in Kramatorsk. There was a direct hit," Kaplin noted.
Evacuees and rescue workers were currently at the scene.
14.45 Russia may gain the ability to control Shahed drones and missiles online using satellites, said Sergei "Flash" Beskrestnov, presidential adviser on defense technology development.
According to him, Russia's failed attempts to launch the Rassvet satellites into orbit should not be seen as the final failure of the project. The Russian Federation can refine the rocket engines and continue deploying the satellite constellation.
"Russia is a space power, and it is quite likely that some Angara rocket will "unexpectedly" launch half of the Rassvet satellite constellation into orbit with a single launch," Beskrestnov suggested.
The presidential advisor also warned of the consequences for Ukraine.
"This will give the enemy the ability to control the "shaheeds" and missiles online via satellites. This will be a huge problem for us. No, it's not even a problem, it will be a small catastrophe," Beskrestnov said.
13.58 In Sumy region along the Ukrainian border, Russian invaders have occupied a strip up to 4 km deep. This was reported by the spokesman for the Joint Forces Group Viktor Tregubov.
"Separately, we still have a little bit of Sumy region - this is our part of the North Slobozhansky direction. And the situation there is quite stable. There, the Russians have occupied a strip along the Ukrainian border. It is not deep, from 2 to 4 kilometers," he said.
According to Tregubov, the Russians tried to expand this strip, but they failed. "It's not possible to expand it, but it's bad that they 'drawn' such a strip right along the border," the spokesman noted.
13.40 In the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region, a Russian attack on the morning of September 20 damaged a warehouse of an industrial enterprise in the town of Boyarka and a private enterprise in the village of Novoselky.
13.18 The Moscow oil refinery was hit by FP-1 drones. This was reported by the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point.
"As a result of the hits, the plant was completely shut down. All primary processing units were damaged, as well as part of the secondary processing units," the company said about the consequences of the attack, adding that the situation with gasoline at Russian gas stations will worsen.
12.45 Ukrainian Defense Forces hit a Buk-M3 air defense missile system near the settlement of Ukrainka, Zaporizhia region. A Nebo-U radar was hit near Balka, Donetsk region.
In addition, a drone production site was hit in the Seversko-Donetsk area of ​​Luhansk region. Also, in the Donetsk region, a command and observation post was hit near the settlement of Zoryan, and an enemy drone control point was hit in the Staromykhaylivka area.
12.32 Russian military drones attacked a mobile Ukrposhta office in Sumy region. Two employees were injured as a result of the strike.
12.18 The section of the border with Romania remains the most popular with violators. In second place is the border with Moldova.
11.55 As part of the Vivaldi offensive, the settlements of Shandryholove and Derylove were liberated, and full control over Drobyshev in the Donetsk region was established.
In the first and second seasons of the Vivaldi offensive operation, the Third Army Corps and attached units returned 125 sq. km of territory to Ukrainian control, of which 50 sq. km were de-occupied.
In addition, another 800 Russian soldiers were killed. In total, the Russian losses for both seasons of Operation Vivaldi amounted to more than 3,000 personnel. The Third Army Corps continues to grind down the offensive potential of three Russian armies at once - the 20th, 25th and 1st Panzer.
11.23 This night in the Moscow region, Ukrainian soldiers struck one of the key enterprises of the Russian oil industry and a logistics facility. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Our long-range responses worked very noticeably in the Moscow region tonight. One of the key enterprises of the Russian oil industry and the aggressor's logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that support the war machine. In particular, FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palanytsia, Vendetta, Lyuty, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, Pelican were deployed," the head of state said.
The President also noted that sanctions were also applied to an enterprise in the Voronezh region. "Moscow should not build echeloned air defense rings at the expense of other regions, but end its brutal war and choose peace. There are steps on the table for de-escalation: in energy, food security. Political will is needed," the head of state said.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the damage to the Gazpromneft-Moscow Refinery in the Kapotny district of Moscow. A large-scale fire was recorded on the territory of the facility - the AVT-6 primary processing unit, a complex oil processing unit, and an isomerization unit were affected.
10.44 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the most massive drone attack on the Russian capital. According to him, since September 19, Russian air defenses have allegedly intercepted more than 1,600 drones at various borders, 450 of which were on their way to Moscow.
At the same time, Sobyanin acknowledged that several drones reached the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery, and another hit a residential building. According to the mayor, there were no fatalities.
Sobyanin stated that the attack was allegedly aimed at disrupting the elections to the Russian State Duma.
Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov reported that 249 drones attacked the Moscow region during the night of September 20. Two people were killed.
According to him, the most serious consequences of the attack are in the Ramensky district. A warehouse complex caught fire in Sof'ino. On the Northern Highway, the roof of a 21-story apartment building caught fire as a result of the drones falling, and 20 cars were damaged.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that overnight alone it allegedly intercepted and destroyed 1,110 Ukrainian drones over a number of regions of Russia, occupied Crimea, and the Black Sea.
10.13 Ukrainians on social networks are massively reporting technical problems in the operation of the Reserve+ application. Due to the failure, some conscripts cannot log in to the system and access their military registration data.
Currently, many users are not seeing information in the application, and logging into the system is unstable. The Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the cause of the failure.
09.57 In Vinnytsia region, a railway infrastructure facility was damaged as a result of a Russian strike. A fire broke out. No information about casualties was received.
09.35 In the Kyiv region, the number of deaths due to Russian strikes has increased to four, including three children.
A child injured in a Russian attack in the Vyshgorod district has died in hospital. This brings the death toll in the Kyiv region to four - three children and a woman.
The most damage was in the Fastiv district. 24 objects were damaged here, including residential buildings, industrial and commercial premises, the territory of an agricultural enterprise, and 17 vehicles.
09.09 On the night of September 20, Russia attacked Ukraine with 138 Shahed attack UAVs (half of them jet), Gerber, and Parodia simulator drones.
Air defenses shot down/suppressed 101 enemy Shahed, Gerbera and other types of UAVs. Hits were recorded at 17 locations, as well as the fall of downed aircraft (fragments) at five locations.
08.56 Russian troops attacked a monastery in the village of Chervony Mayak, Novoraiska community, with an FPV drone. A 71-year-old priest was killed. Four other priests, aged 51, 53, 51 and 31, were also injured. They had previously suffered mine-explosive injuries.
08.23 Over the past 24 hours, 234 combat clashes were recorded on the front. Russian troops attacked most actively in the Kostyantynivka direction, where the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 25 assaults.
08.08 In the village of Hlevakha in the Kyiv region, a mother and two three-year-old children were killed as a result of a Russian drone attack on the evening of September 19.
In the evening, three families with children were near the house. The woman took two toddlers into the house to put them to bed - at that moment an explosion occurred.
The impact killed a mother and two three-year-old children - a boy and a girl. The roof of the house and the ceiling between the floors were also damaged, and a fire broke out, which was extinguished by rescuers.
07.50 As a result of a night drone attack in Moscow, the Gazpromneft-MNPZ oil refinery, one of the largest refineries in Russia, located in the Kapotny district, caught fire. Its refining capacity is 11 million tons of oil per year. The plant supplies about 40% of Moscow's fuel market and 70% of the Moscow region's needs for gasoline and jet fuel.
In addition, the damage likely occurred in the area of ​​the Sof'ino technopark, located near Moscow.
Ukrainian defense company Fire Point reported the damage to a warehouse complex in the Moscow region. The company said that FP-1 strike drones destroyed a warehouse complex in the Moscow region - previously, it was said to be the warehouses of the company Sovremennye Skladskie Tehnologii.
07.24 From February 24, 2022 to September 20, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,517,990 people (+1,560 per day).
04.15 Canada is discussing with the European Union the possibility of its participation in a 90 billion euro loan program for Ukraine. If Ottawa joins the initiative, Kyiv will be able to buy weapons and ammunition from Canadian companies despite the "made in Europe" requirement, and Canada will pay part of the interest on the loan.
02.50 The European Union is pressing international partners to provide Ukraine with additional funding due to growing needs amid a tense fighting situation ahead of winter, writes Bloomberg. According to Kyiv's assessment, unmet needs in 2027 could amount to at least $32 billion. Brussels is trying to attract other countries to additional funding, including the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland and Canada.