The war in Ukraine 2025-09-28

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  • 7 Tanks
  • 2 AFVs
  • 45 Artillery systems
  • 1 MLRS
  • 454 UAVs
  • 131 Vehicles & Fuel tanks

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  1. MXT

    ⚡️Explosions, fires, and injuries. The main points about the night’s massive Russian attack on Ukraine The aggressor used a large number of drones, as well as “Kinzhal,” “Kalibr,” and cruise missiles launched from Tu aircraft. Initial consequences:

    ▪️Kyiv — the city was attacked by drones and missiles. Large fires, debris fell on apartment buildings. There are casualties

    ▪️Bila Tserkva — confirmed hits. Private houses and non-residential premises were on fire

    ▪️Kyiv region — massive UAV attack. There are wounded. Fires in private houses, farm buildings, and non-residential buildings due to falling debris

    ▪️Zaporizhzhia — ballistic strike on critical infrastructure. One educational institution was affected. Also, a fire in an apartment building, apartments are burning

    ▪️Other regions — explosions were heard in Kyiv & the region, Bila Tserkva, Zaporizhzhia region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Odesa region, Mykolaiv region, Cherkasy region, and Khmelnytskyi region.

    The video shows the aftermath in Kyiv, the region, and Zaporizhzhia. The missile situation is reportedly clear, but the drone attack continues. Insider of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lzundnixp22i
    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lzundnjcgs2i

    “🤬 Zaporizhzhia, the consequences of Russian missile strike!”
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      Russia launches heavy bombers at Ukraine, targets Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia with drones and missiles

      September 28, 2025 5:41 am (Updated: September 28, 2025 7:57 am) • 5 min read Avatar Abbey Fenbert

      Russia launches heavy bombers at Ukraine, targets Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia with drones and missiles An apartment building in flames in Zaporizhzhia during a Russian mass attack overnight on Sept. 28, 2025. (Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration / Telegram)

      Russia targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in a mass missile and drone attack overnight on Sept. 28, launching heavy bombers that triggered air raid sirens even in regions far from the front line. Five Russian Tu-95 bombers took off from Olenya airfield in Murmansk Oblast at approximately 1:45 a.m. local time, monitoring channels reported. At around 2:25 a.m., the Kyiv City Military Administration warned that Russia had launched MiG-31K bombers, prompting an aerial alert across the country. Ukraine’s Air Force then issued a warning at 3:52 a.m., saying Russia had likely launched Tu-95s from the Engels air base.

      Throughout the night, swarms of Shahed-style drones also threatened a number of Ukrainian regions. Explosions were reported in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and Sumy. Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia have reported the heaviest damage from the attack thus far. A five-story building in the capital was partially destroyed and residential infrastructure has been damaged in multiple districts, Kyiv City Military Administration Head Tymur Tkachenko said. The attack also damaged non-residential buildings and parked cars.

      At least six people have been injured, five of whom have been hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. “Missiles are still hitting the city,” he said, urging residents to stay in shelters.

      In Kyiv Oblast, fires broke out in several homes and buildings in districts outside the capital during the “mass enemy strike,” regional authorities said. Five people in the town of Fastiv were injured — all employees of a bakery that caught fire during the attack.

      An apartment building in flames in Zaporizhzhia amid Russia’s mass strike on Sept. 28, 2025.

      In Zaporizhzhia — the regional capital of partially Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southeastern Ukraine — the attack targeted the city’s civilian infrastructure, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov reported. One missile struck a multistory building directly. Nine houses and 14 high-rise buildings were damaged in total, Fedorov said. The attack also damaged non-residential buildings, including a school and the production facilities of an unspecified enterprise.

      At least two attacks hit Zaporizhzhia during the night, according to the governor. At least 16 people were injured, including three children. “Insidious tactics, an inhuman thirst for human suffering,” Regina Kharchenko, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, said the morning after the attack. “Yesterday’s life still smolders in the windows — someone’s photographs, children’s toys, books. People have suffered, and the city is counting its wounds again.”

       

      Explosions were also reported in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Governor Serhii Tiurin confirmed that air defenses had been active over the region during the attack, but said preliminary reports indicated no casualties.

       

      Poland scrambled fighter jets in response to the mass attack, as it has done previously when Russian strikes threatened western Ukraine.

      During a mass attack on Sept. 10, Poland shot down multiple Russian drones that crossed the border and breached Polish airspace. Flight monitors reported that Poland on Sept. 28 closed the airspace over Lublin and Rseszow due to “unplanned military activity related to ensuring state security.”

      Unidentified drones reportedly spotted in Denmark, Lithuania, Finland

      Russia has intensified the scale of its aerial attacks on Ukraine throughout the spring and summer of 2025. Heading into the colder months, officials have warned Ukrainians to brace for a new wave of Russian mass attacks targeting the country’s energy infrastructure. Earlier in September, Russia launched over 810 Shahed-type drones and 13 missiles in a record-breaking attack that struck the Cabinet of Ministers building in central Kyiv. Two nights later, Russia attacked again, striking Ukraine and violating Polish airspace.

       

      The incident marked the first time a NATO member has destroyed Russian drones during the full-scale war against Ukraine. It was followed by a string of Russian airspace violations and suspicious drone incursions in NATO territory.

       

      Amid these escalating provocations, world leaders convened in New York for the high-level U.N. General Assembly, where President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump. In an abrupt tonal shift, Trump declared after the meeting that Ukraine “is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form” — with European support.

       

      Trump later lobbed criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin for the ongoing attacks on Ukraine. “I’m very dissatisfied with what Russia is doing and what President Putin is doing,” Trump told reporters on Sept. 25. “I haven’t liked it at all. He’s killing people for no reason whatsoever.” Trump has still not imposed any new U.S. sanctions against Russia despite the mounting civilian death toll.

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    A relatively strong increase (almost the second highest level since the beginning of May) in the southern front sector of Huliaypillia. Together with a slight increase in the neighboring Orikivsk, it also raised the southern front to a record level compared to the beginning of May when the summer offensive began (third highest).

    Could the offensive on the southern front (as it appears) explain why KWIA rose sharply to a strong 1110? For once, there were also some tanks in the losing side…

    Otherwise, there were decreasing numbers of attacks overall. Pokrovsk maintained its activity in attacks, the most attack-intensive front sector in terms of reported number of attacks.

     

    • Northern Slobozhansky-Kursk 5↘️
    • Southern Slobozhansky 5
    • Kupyansk 6
    • Lyman 15💥↘️
    • Siverskyi 6↘️
    • Kramatorsk 3↘️
    • Toretsk 14💥↘️
    • Pokrovsk 59💥💥💥
    • Novopavlivka 21💥↘️
    • Huliaypillia 9💥↗️
    • Orikivsk 6↗️
    • Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 1
    1. Fram i Natten

      It seems like Ukraine is making good progress on some fronts. Should, as you write, lead to results in the tally.
      I also want to remember that POWs are included in KWIA. So when whole brigades in Ukraine 🇺🇦 surrender, it will result in record numbers.
      And it will happen. Many times. The question is, when will it be the first time?

      Onwards 🦅 💫

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        👍💥

        That suddenly there are tanks in the report indicates a Russian attempt to advance. The tanks are otherwise withdrawn from the front because of FPV drones, as I have understood. (Enormous Russian loss of armor in Russian offensive against Vuhledar summer 2023)

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    📖🇺🇦>>🇸🇪🇬🇧

    🧵https://x.com/anno1540/status/1971921461922484317?s=46

    1/ “They are crying“: Zelensky said what Russians and Putin personally fear

    The President said that the greatest fear of the Russian dictator is not related to the Ukrainian army or international sanctions. He fears his own society.

    The head of state said this in an interview with Axios. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZHoDZbcJY

    According to Zelensky, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia tried to conduct mobilization but quickly realized that this leads to a decline in Putin’s popularity.

    The head of state emphasized that the Kremlin’s fear is not about elections or protests in the usual democratic sense, but about the possibility of a direct uprising.

    They can simply come to the Kremlin and destroy it. Russians do not want mobilization.

    https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/volodimir-zelenskij.htm

    2/ According to Zelensky, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia tried to mobilize, but quickly realized that this would lead to a decline in Putin’s popularity.

    “They started paying money instead of official mobilization. This is an important point. Putin has no prime ministers or parliament, this is not democracy. But this means that he is afraid of his society,” the president emphasized.

    https://youtu.be/F4ZHoDZbcJY?si=KodbKJwGoIacTbyq

    3/ The head of state emphasized that the Kremlin’s fear lies not in elections or protests in the usual democratic sense,

    “but in the possibility of a direct rebellion“

    “They can just come to the Kremlin and destroy it. The Russians don’t want mobilization,” Zelensky said.

    The President also noted that Ukrainian special services are intercepting the conversations of Russian military personnel at the front.

    “They call their families, scream, cry. They are afraid, but they can’t do anything. If they don’t move forward, they will be killed by their own commanders,” he said.

    4/ According to Zelensky, to weaken Putin’s ability to pay for the war, the world should tighten sanctions to deprive the Kremlin of financial resources to pay mercenaries and mobilized troops.

    “Putin cannot pay forever,” the president concluded.

    He also noted that Ukraine and its partners do not want the war to last another year or more .

    “We don’t want to wait another two or three years. We need to act now,” Zelenskyy stressed.

    5/5 As a reminder, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is lying to leaders who still talk to him, saying that the occupation contingent is achieving its goals, particularly in the Dobropil direction. In reality, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are successfully neutralizing the invaders, inflicting heavy losses on them.

    1. MXT

      Interesting. We have well believed for a long time that Putin does not dare to declare full war and introduce a comprehensive mobilization. It was 300,000 men in the autumn of 2022, but since then he has instead ensured to pay enormous salaries to the soldiers.

      We’ll see how long the money lasts, he may be forced to mobilize in the end after all.

      1. Bal

        He needs a new war for that. Preferably against NATO where he can say that Russia did not take the first step. Then peace negotiations, and when NATO does not invade Russia, Putin has saved the country in front of the people.

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    📖🇬🇧🇸🇪

    🧵https://x.com/anno1540/status/1971967792980332589?s=46

    1/✍️
    250927
    17.20

    “Joakim von Braun well knowned Swedish expert Russia and Eastern Europe wrote this, I got the promises to copie from Swedish to English”…..
    —-
    Russia’s military is being damaged time and time again

    The fact that the Russian oil industry is now suffering every day has not prevented Ukraine from also carrying out a number of successful attacks on the Russian military.

    First of all, we should be clear that Russia will never win at the front.

    The Russian progress is minimal and the cost is between 1,000 and 1,500 casualties every day!

    – Russia will be devastated before Ukraine can be defeated!

    2/
    “However, the war is not only being fought at the front line, which unfortunately many miss.”

    In addition to Russia’s cowardly attacks on civilian Ukrainian citizens (which is a serious violation of the laws of war), Ukraine manages to carry out many attacks on the Russian military inside Russia.

    Most attacks are carried out with the help of drones, but missile attacks and attacks using special forces and partisans are also included in the overall picture.

    During August and September, Ukraine has successfully attacked a total of 85 Russian military targets!

    In total, 33 military units and 55 Russian factories that manufacture weapons and ammunition, for example, have been attacked.

    As far as I know, this is the most successful period for the Ukrainian military ever!!! Slava Ukraini!

    3/
    “Attack 7,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border”

    The other day, the Ukrainian military intelligence attacked the Russian marine infantry in Vladivostok!

    – It is a military target located a full 7,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

    The conclusion one must draw is that there is hardly a single military target in Russia that is not within Ukraine’s reach! Very impressive!

    The elite unit 55 Marine Infantry Division (в/ч 30926) is located in Vladivostok.

    The attacked unit is a unit that is part of the division:

    “47 Air Assault Battalion” which was attacked on 16/9.

    Two days later, the 810th Independent Marine Infantry Brigade (в/ч 13140) was greeted by Ukrainian soldiers.

    It was probably at least the 5th time in 2025 that the unit had been attacked by Ukraine.

    They have committed war crimes several times, including by using prohibited gas in battles.

    It has previously been reported that the 810th gv OBrMP had been infiltrated by partisans from the Atesj unit.

    4/
    Another elite unit that was attacked is the Rubikon unit, which is described as the –

    “Rubikon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies”.

    It is a new unit that was created in 2024 and seems to be relatively unknown (though not for long, I can promise!).

    On 19/9, the unit was attacked by four Ukrainian drones. I hope to be able to describe what happened in a future article.

    On September 22, the 17th Tank Regiment was hit by a Ukrainian attack, which managed to destroy a number of drones and parts of the regiment’s ammunition depot.

    Other Ukrainian attacks have been directed at ammunition depots, military bases, military airfields, and several Russian aircraft and military helicopters have also been destroyed in the past two months.

    The Russian Navy VMF has also been attacked successfully.

    The Novorossiysk Naval Base was attacked in early August and again on September 24.

    5/5
    Do your part too! Support Aid4Ukraine!

    Please take the opportunity to support Aid4Ukraine Sweden so that the Ukrainian units at the front can fight even better.

    Larisa Persson (formerly Mishchenko) has sent a lot of vital aid to her personal contacts at the front and always makes sure that all the money ends up in the right place.

    Together with my friends and followers on Facebook, I have collected hundreds of thousands of kronor for Aid4Ukraine.

    Larisa makes sure she gets receipts and photographs of everything sent to the Ukrainian units.

    Send a donation today to Swish 0760-238727 or to my account at SE-banken 5206 33 092 99.

    Write “Give Ukraine” on the payment!

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  20. MXT

    Trump Approval Ratings
    Had a bit much going on this week so I’m a bit late. This is from the 21st (it says 28th but that’s not correct).

    He went up by 0.2 but in total percentage it means he still remains at -17%

    I think in the long run I will switch over to New York Times. It feels more credible as they take into account several surveys and have a weighting system based on quality, etc.
    According to them, he is at -13% so it’s not that much better.
    It aligns quite well with the Fox survey, but they update very rarely.

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    Now Johan found on the turtle thread U137 (Whiskey on the rocks).

    But it’s hardly Whisky Johan is drinking, more like juice? The Old One wrote the post about the submarine hunt here on the blog last Friday?

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    📖🇺🇦➡️🇬🇧🇸🇪
    🧵https://x.com/anno1540/status/1972345116955443532?s=46

    1/✍️
    The Kremlin mouthpiece
    The masters cry baby:

    “There will be a reaction!” Putin threatened Ukraine if it responds to the air attack

    “Our supreme commander-in-chief, the president, has already spoken on this topic. So it’s better not to talk about it at all.
    Everyone understands what Russia’s reaction will be if Kyiv tries to attack the Kremlin“, Peskov said.

    Also, Putin’s spokesperson claimed that supposedly Ukraine and Europe do not want to end the war.

    At the same time, Peskov cynically stated that

    “Russia is conducting military actions to guarantee its own security and eliminate the root causes of the conflict“.

    “On the one hand, it is necessary to force the Kyiv regime to finally take the path of peace, not war, to force Europeans to abandon militaristic positions“, Peskov said.🤡

    https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-mir/bude-reaktsiya-u-putina-prigrozili-ukraini-yakscho-vona-vidpovist-na-povitryanu-ataku.htm

    2/
    – According to Peskov, everyone understands what the Russian Federation’s reaction will be if Kyiv attempts to attack the Kremlin.

    He stated this in a comment to Russian propaganda media.

    3/
    “Russia continues to threaten and kill”

    After another massive missile and drone attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine, which killed civilians, including a child, Peskov issued a new batch of threats .

    At the same time, he emphasized that the topic of Russia’s reaction to possible attacks by Ukrainian troops on the Kremlin

    “is better not even raised.”

    4/
    “Our supreme commander-in-chief, the president,( the little figure with no hair ) he has already spoken on this topic.

    That is, it is better not to even talk about it.

    – Everyone understands what the Russian Federation’s reaction will be if Kyiv attempts to attack the Kremlin,” Peskov said

    Putin’s spokesman also suggested that it was Ukraine and Europe that did not want to end the war. At the same time, Peskov cynically stated that

    “Russia is taking military action to guarantee its own security and eliminate the root causes of the conflict.”

    5/
    “On the one hand, we need to force the Kiev regime to take the path of peace, not war, and force Europeans to abandon militaristic positions,” Peskov said…..

    “What preceded”

    President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the leadership of the aggressor country Russia must stop the war against Ukraine .

    Otherwise, the head of state stressed, Kremlin officials should take care of places in bomb shelters.

    – In addition, Zelensky said that US President Donald Trump openly supports him in striking Russian targets.

    As a reminder, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine needs modern long-range weapons, which the United States can provide.

    https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics-news/mi-ne-teroristi-zelenskij-ozvuchiv-umovi-dlya-dalekobijnih-udariv-po-rf.htm

    And if such missiles are received, Ukrainian soldiers will certainly use them.✊️

    6/6
    Thanks to Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian territory, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have hit 85 key aggressor targets in almost two months .

    Deep Strike drones have successfully attacked military targets and enemy defense enterprises in the Russian Federation.

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    ⚡️Zelenskyy: Russia is using oil tankers, including its “shadow fleet,” to launch and control drones attacking European countries.

    The president calls to shut the Baltic and other seas to Russian tankers.

    — United24Media

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