Ukrinform
Ukrinform is the Ukrainian state news agency, founded in 1918. It publishes official news and statements from Ukrainian government bodies.
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Ukraine military intelligence chief calls Kyiv SBU–HUR shooting "unacceptable," denies "war between special services"
Head of Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) Oleh Ivashchenko publicly commented on the September 2 shooting between SBU and HUR personnel in Kyiv, calling it an "unacceptable incident" and rejecting suggestions of a "war between special services." The shooting occurred in the Berezniaky district during investigative actions linked to Russian Volunteer Corps deputy commander Stepan Kaplunov. The SBU and HUR have given competing accounts of the incident, and the State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Prosecutor General have opened pretrial investigations.
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Ukraine's military intelligence chief says Russia has resources to wage war through 2027–2028
Head of Ukraine's military intelligence, Oleh Ivashchenko, said in an interview with Ukrinform that Russia is using mercenaries from more than 40 countries and still has enough resources to continue the war through 2027 and 2028, despite a weakened economy, exhausted contract recruitment, and public opposition of more than 60%. He called for sanctions that genuinely work and for international cooperation to cut off supplies of electronics, machinery, and chemicals reaching Russia through intermediary companies.
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Russian strike on Orlivka border crossing with Romania forces second suspension in a week
On the night of September 5–6, 2026, Russian forces struck border infrastructure in Izmail district of Odesa Oblast, causing the Orlivka international ferry crossing checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Romanian border to suspend operations for the second time within roughly a week. Romanian radar detected inbound aerial targets and the country declared a brief air-raid alert; no violation of Romanian airspace was recorded. Operations resumed on the morning of September 7.
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Ukraine reports 245 combat clashes; Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions under heaviest pressure
Ukraine's General Staff reported 245 combat clashes on the front line over the past day, the 1656th day of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. The Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions together accounted for 60 of those clashes. The General Staff also reported Russian personnel losses of 1,390 over the same period.
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Russian drones hit residential building in Zaporizhzhia in overnight attack on multiple oblasts
Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia with drones overnight on 3–4 September, hitting a multi-storey residential building and starting a fire in two apartments, as part of a broader overnight drone barrage detected across several Ukrainian oblasts. The head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported the fire and published footage of the aftermath on Telegram. Casualty reporting shifted across the day: initial accounts said no one was hurt in the building strike, while later reports described one woman injured.
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Russian drone strike on marshrutka in central Kherson kills one, wounds more than a dozen
On 4 September, a Russian drone struck a marshrutka (route taxi) and a public transport stop in the Central district of Kherson, killing a 47-year-old man in hospital and wounding multiple civilians. By 14:57 that afternoon the toll from the marshrutka strike alone had climbed to 12 wounded, part of a day of strikes across Kherson Oblast reported by Ukrainian officials.
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Russian occupation court in Zaporizhzhia Oblast sentences Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko to 15 years
An occupation court in Russia's Zaporizhzhia Oblast sentenced retired Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko to 15 years in a penal colony on espionage charges. Levchenko, who had been in Russian captivity for more than three years, was convicted under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code after a closed trial whose substantive allegations Ukrainian sources describe as fabricated.
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Kyiv shootout between SBU and GUR erupts over alleged FSB plot against Chechen exile leader Zakayev
Ukraine's SBU said it prevented an FSB-ordered plot to assassinate Akhmed Zakayev, the exiled head of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's government, who was in Kyiv for Independence Day on 24 August. The case targeted Stepan Kaplunov, a Russian-national volunteer and deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) embedded in a GUR special unit. On 2 September, a shootout in Kyiv's Berezniaky district during a search of Kaplunov's apartment left three GUR personnel wounded. Kaplunov and RDK say he was abducted by SBU officers on 23 August and his confession was extracted under pressure; the SBU says his group attacked its investigative team. President Zelensky called the incident 'absolutely shameful,' an SBU official was dismissed, and the DBR and Prosecutor General's Office opened investigations.
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HUR warns of disinformation campaign targeting military intelligence amid SBU clash
Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said on 3 September that a targeted disinformation campaign is being deployed to discredit military intelligence and its combat units, urging the public to trust only verified official sources and asking journalists to report any paid offers of dubious material. The warning came against the backdrop of an armed confrontation between HUR and the SBU in Kyiv on 2 September tied to the detention of Russian Volunteer Corps deputy commander Stepan Kaplunov, and was followed by President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissing an SBU department head and calling the SBU–HUR clash "shameful."
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Zelensky's Staff meeting sets accelerated timeline for interceptor drones against jet-powered Shaheds
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff focused on accelerating Ukrainian production of high-speed interceptor drones designed to counter Russian jet-powered Shahed-type attack drones. Prototypes of the new weapons have been developed, with work underway to bring them to the required effectiveness, and specific deadlines have been set for involving business in air defense production. Zelensky framed the effort as part of an asymmetric response to Russia's growing output of high-speed attack drones.
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India's foreign minister makes first standalone bilateral visit to Ukraine, meets Zelensky and Sybiha in Kyiv
India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Kyiv on 3 September for the first standalone bilateral visit by an Indian foreign minister to Ukraine. He held talks and a joint briefing with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and met President Volodymyr Zelensky, discussing peace efforts, bilateral trade and cooperation, freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, and global food security. Jaishankar said the war would be resolved through diplomacy and negotiations, not through decisions by individual countries to buy or not buy Russian oil.