Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in a meeting with Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Copenhagen, September 27, 2025
Friday’s Coverage: Zelensky — I’m Ready to Leave Presidency Once Russia’s Invasion Halted
UPDATE 1732 GMT:
Ukrainian long-range drones have damaged the Tynogovato oil pumping station in Russia’s Chuvash Republic, suspending its operation.
The station is in the village of Kovar, 1,000 km (620 miles) from Ukraine.
Chuvash Governor Oleg Nikolaev insisted the damage was minor despite the suspension of operations. No casualties were reported.
“The SBU [State security service] continues to ‘impose sanctions’ against the Russian oil sector, which brings the aggressor country superprofits that go towards the war against Ukraine. Work to reduce the amount of petrodollars in the Russian budget will continue,” an SBU official said.
UPDATE 1102 GMT:
At least two civilians have been killed and at least 36 injured by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past 24 hours.
Air defenses intercepted 97 of 115 drones launched by Russia overnight. Seventeen drones hit six locations.
In the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, one civilian was murdered and nine injured.
In the Kherson region, one person was slain and 12 wounded. Seven apartment buildings, 94 houses, several stores, farm buildings, garages, and vehicles were damaged.
An 86-year-old woman and an 88-year-old man were among at least six people wounded in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Casualties were also reported in the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
UPDATE 0639 GMT:
The Trump Administration is still refusing to supply Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
The missiles would bolster Ukraine’s capability to strike deep inside Russia.
They are the only weapon system excluded from the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List program, in which the US sells arms to NATO members which are transferred to Ukraine.
“A source with knowledge of that pnrocess” said Ukraine has raised the issue of the Tomahawks with the US several times over the past year.
Volodymyr Zelensky asked Donald Trump, during their meeting on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, to provide the missiles.
Zelensky said the following day:
I said to him yesterday what we need, one thing….
We need it, but it doesn’t mean that we will use it. Because if we will have it, I think it’s additional pressure on Putin to sit and speak.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s offensives in eastern Ukraine have failed, as Moscow suffers heavy losses.
In his nightly address to the nation, Zelensky said Ukraine’s forces have inflicted significant casualties on Moscow’s troops, including more than 3,000 slain in a counter-offensive near Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
“For some time they have been forced, year after year, to invent new reasons why the deadlines they announced keep getting pushed back,” he noted.
The world sees that Russia has entered a stage where the war will bring more and more problems for the Russian system itself, the Russian economy, and Russian society. The critical point is not to ease the pressure on Russia for this war. Sanctions, restrictions on trade with Russia, restrictions on the schemes they exploit and profit from – all of this will work.
Putin lies to the leaders who still talk to him when he says that the occupying forces are achieving some kind of their goals. For years now, they’ve been forced to come up with new and new reasons why the deadlines set for them keep being pushed back. And it’s telling that… pic.twitter.com/tmxHHvlWuT
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 26, 2025
Ukraine’s military commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told reporters that “the Russians’ spring and summer campaign has effectively been disrupted”.
Syrskyi said Russia’s 15-month offensive to overrun the logistics hub of Pokrovsk, let alone seize the rest of Donetsk, had failed. He added that Russian plans to occupy a buffer zone in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions along the border had been failed.
Commenting on the advance of small groups of Russian soldiers in August near Dobropillia, the general said Ukraine cut off the invaders along the Kazenyi Torets river in a “trap”.
Syrski said an estimated 712,000 Russian personnel are involved along an active frontline of 1,250 km (777 miles).
