RUSSIA IS LOSING GROUND NEAR LYMAN 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian 🇺🇦 forces are reportedly pushing Russian 🇷🇺 troops back around Lyman, with gains of up to 9 km, the liberation of Dibrova and Piskunivka, and continued movement toward Torske. Russian units are said to be withdrawing in the direction of Kreminna and Rubizhne while coming under sustained Ukrainian drone pressure. OSINT analysts estimate that Ukraine has regained nearly 190 km² in the area. If those battlefield assessments hold, the contrast is stark: while Russian forces are being pushed back on this part of the front, Ukrainian civilians continue to face Russian strikes far from the immediate fighting. The reported gains around Lyman point to growing pressure on Russian positions across the sector, not strength or momentum.

❗️Russian troops used civilians as human shields and forced them through gas pipeline to Russia On 27 September, Ukrainian reconnaissance drones recorded Russian troops taking civilians out of the Kupiansk hromada in Kharkiv Oblast. The Russian troops are fleeing while hiding behind civilians. Russian soldiers are truly terrorists…

New Ukraine frontline update: Operation Vivaldi, the Lyman counteroffensive, Russian losses and the latest confirmed changes across the front. 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini piped.video/rxBpOn3iepI

ISW: Ukraine's win near Lyman came from beating Russia's drones first The Institute for the Study of War assesses that Ukraine likely neutralized Russian drone defenses north of Lyman before the third phase of its Vivaldi counteroffensive. It points to one detail: Ukrainian armored vehicles reached heavy Russian fortifications without coming under drone strikes. The think tank credits a strike campaign on Russian logistics and electronic warfare. Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps said those strikes in occupied Luhansk Oblast cut fuel for the diesel generators that power Russian jammers. The corps says the phase retook 5 settlements and 51 km². 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/…

Russian strikes are incoming from all sides onto Kyiv, in broad daylight. Markets, gas stations, a hospital, office, kindergartens, residential buildings. Russian scum cannot push through on the front line, so they are staging genocide in Ukrainian cities. Many people asked in the comments why we ignore air raid alerts and are outside of shelters during Russian attacks. The answer is simple: alerts last for hours many months in a row. We need to work and live. The world continues watching a live broadcast of Ukrainians being killed.

Why are Russia’s jet-powered drones so difficult to shoot down? Speed is only part of the challenge. According to aviation expert Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, relay stations deployed by Belarus along the border provide Russian strike drones with high-quality communications deep into Ukrainian territory, helping them accurately reach their targets. “The operating range of such a relay allows it to cover a 140-kilometer perimeter. So, if, say, a communications antenna is located on Belarusian territory near the Chornobyl exclusion zone, there is a direct line of radio sight over the Kyiv Reservoir that allows it to cover 140 kilometers - meaning the entire territory of Kyiv falls within its range. That’s why it’s clear why they feel so comfortable in Ukrainian airspace,” an aviation expert explains. Source: Radio Liberty

💔 Maksym and Nataliia Simiohins were simply driving when a russian FPV drone deliberately targeted their civilian car. Their children, little Makar and Ostap, are now orphans. This is the cold-blooded killing of civilians by russia. This is the russian human safari.

Ukraine sent grenade-launcher robots into Russian shelters while infantry stayed outside direct contact. Operators controlled the attack from safe positions tens of kilometers away. Third Army Corps: No one has used similar tactics in this war before — United24. 1/

russia is packing Shaheds with shrapnel to maximize harm to civilians. A Shahed that fell in the Kyiv region today was packed with metal balls, designed to turn the blast into a deadly shower of fragments. This isn’t the first time. A deliberate tactic of terror. A war crime.

TRUMP TIES GLOBAL PRESSURE TO REFINERIES, AI AND IRAN 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷 Donald Trump 🇺🇸 says Ukrainian 🇺🇦 strikes on Russian 🇷🇺 diesel refineries are creating what he called “a world problem,” adding that he personally asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ease the attacks. According to Trump, Zelenskyy responded that Ukraine would “probably” do so. “The big problem is Russian refineries being blown up,” Trump said, adding: “We will handle it.” Trump also framed artificial intelligence as a two-country race between the United States 🇺🇸 and China 🇨🇳. He claimed the U.S. is roughly one to one-and-a-half years ahead, argued that opening advanced AI capabilities to China would surrender that lead, and said AI could ultimately prove more consequential than either the Industrial Revolution or the internet. He described American investment in AI infrastructure as running into the trillions and said companies should be allowed to move quickly, with intervention only when problems emerge. On Iran 🇮🇷, Trump said Washington can prevail through both military and economic pressure. He claimed the U.S. has “basically won” militarily and portrayed Iran’s economy, currency and armed forces as being under severe strain, while citing inflation near 300%. Across all three issues, Trump’s message was consistent: maintain American technological leadership, use pressure abroad, and intervene directly when he believes global economic consequences are becoming too large.

⚡️Reports from the front suggest that Ukraine may be getting closer to threatening Russia’s land corridor to Crimea. We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine 🇺🇦 P.S. If the corridor is actually cut, announcing another mobilization afterward may already be too late for Putin.

We are consistently using our long-range capabilities to respond to Russian strikes against life. Last night, our sanctions were used against two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions. Over the past 24 hours, SSU units also carried out effective operations against the aggressor’s oil facilities in the Krasnodar region. Sanctions were also launched against facilities that the Russians use for drone terror against Ukraine in the Kaluga and Oryol regions. In the Bryansk region, our forces worked directly against the occupying contingent. A target was also hit in the Black Sea. I am grateful to everyone who is taking the war back to where it came from. Russia must stop escalating.

In broad daylight this hospital in central Kyiv was struck today by Putin’s campaign of terror. Over the past fortnight we have witnessed a systematic pattern: • Hospitals bombed in broad daylight. • Pharmaceutical warehouses systematically targeted and burned to the ground. • $84 million of life-saving medicines from multinational pharmaceutical companies destroyed. The Russians are trying to cut off care and burn down the supply chain. This terror against civilians, medical personnel, and healing spaces must stop immediately. Standing here outside the @dobrobut_mc medical center, a proud member of the @ChamberUkraine the reality of Russia's brutal campaign is stark and undeniable. Grateful to all who continue to work in Ukraine’s healthcare sector everyday during this brutal war.

Q: Has your team spoken to Iran today? Trump: Yeah. Q: With mediators? Trump: Yeah Q: Anything else you can share? Trump: We’re going to win.