Russian or Ukrainian information on details of individual attacks and the number of injured and killed cannot currently be independently verified.
The Ukrainian government expects war costs to amount to 136 billion euros next year. Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyj said this. He warned that the sum is currently not covered by state revenues or financial aid from partner countries that has already largely been approved.
Accordingly, Ukraine is still missing almost 24 billion euros. He wants to cover more than six billion euros through reallocation of funds and austerity measures, and the country is in negotiations with its supporters for a further almost 18 billion euros. The head of government did not say what specific savings were planned.
Despite the large sum, the expected war costs in the coming year mentioned by Korezkyj remain below Russia's presumed military budget for 2027. The Reuters news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian government documents, that Russia planned to increase its military budget by 27 percent to around 178 billion euros, the highest figure since the start of the war. To achieve this, education and health budgets, among other things, should be cut.
The town of Hrafske north of Kharkiv City is apparently back under Ukrainian control. This emerges from the current situation report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Geolocated footage shows Russian troops attacking a building in the previously occupied town that was defended by Ukrainian soldiers.
In the same region, north of Kupyansk, Ukrainian troops drove the attackers out of a forest. The Ukrainian military also said it attacked an ammunition depot in occupied Novoyehorivka from the air.
Ukraine says it shot down five ballistic missiles during the nightly Russian air strikes. In addition, 155 drones were repelled, the air force in Kyiv said. Russia used 188 drones and an undisclosed number of cruise missiles and Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles in the attacks. Ukraine has rarely been able to defend itself against ballistic missiles for months.
The Iskander-M is the most widely used short-range ballistic missile by Russia. The S-400, which is actually intended for anti-aircraft defense, is also regularly used by Russian troops against ground targets and is similarly difficult to defend against.
The military in Kyiv left it open how many missiles Russia used. In early August, it stopped publishing accurate figures, which had been the Ukrainian military's usual practice since late 2022. The military justified its decision by no longer wanting to make public the declining proportion of missiles defended. The background is the lack of defensive missiles, especially for the Patriot air defense system.
This has made Ukraine significantly more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, which have recently increased sharply. While at times, according to information from Kyiv, up to 40 percent of ballistic missiles could be defended against, the defense rate fell to low single-digit percentages shortly before the end of the publication of precise figures.
According to local reports, three people were killed in Kyiv and the capital region as a result of nightly Russian attacks with drones, cruise missiles and rockets. The military administration of the Ukrainian capital said there were two dead and four injured in Kyiv. The attacks caused fires in warehouses, commercial buildings and residential buildings.
In the Kyiv suburb of Vyshhorod, a killed child was recovered from under the rubble of a destroyed residential building, Kyiv military administrator Timur Tkacheno wrote on Telegram. Three other people were injured.
South Korea has confirmed the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war from Ukraine. "Although I cannot give the exact date of their arrival in South Korea, I can confirm that the two arrived in mid-September," said MP Youn Kun-young.
There were explosions in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. According to Governor Tymur Tkachenko, a child was killed and three adults were injured in a Russian attack using missiles and drones.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed on Telegram that a fire had broken out in a residential area.
Russia is planning to cut social spending in view of drastically increasing defense spending. Funding for social policy is expected to fall by seven percent in 2027. This emerges from government documents quoted by the Reuters news agency.
From the perspective of Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the recent meeting between Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov highlighted Russia's unwillingness to engage in meaningful peace negotiations.
At least two people were killed in Russian air strikes on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Another six people were injured, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic representative, Kirill Dmitriyev, was received in Washington, D.C. by representatives of the US government.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul criticized the Slovak government's attitude towards Russia and Ukraine during a visit to Bratislava.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has assured Ukraine of support. Russia's "ruthless" sabotage campaign in Europe will only lead to more NATO support for Ukraine, Rutte said.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhenij Khmara has canceled his inaugural visit to Germany. The reason for the cancellation of the meeting planned for today with Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was the current situation in Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers have pushed back Russian troops south of Orikhiv. This emerges from the current situation report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
