This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Tuesday, September 26.
This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Tuesday, September 26.
- Kyiv says its air defence destroyed 26 of 38 Russian drones fired overnight, as Russia says it repelled several Ukrainian drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions, destroying at least 11 drones.
- Russia’s defence ministry has released a photograph of Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, attending a video conference, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him in the Crimean port of Sevastopol last week.
- The United Kingdom’s defence ministry says “a dynamic, deep strike battle is underway in the Black Sea”, after the Russian Black Sea Fleet suffered a series of major attacks.
- Washington has imposed new sanctions on five Russian and 11 Chinese companies for their role in supplying drone technology components used in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.