Over the course of the week, the enemy launched a series of devastating strikes on Odesa, destroying and damaging dozens of residential buildings in the city; during a repeat strike on an administrative building in the city center, rescuers were injured. In Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, shopping centers burned down as a result of the attacks. Kyiv and the surrounding region suffered from strikes on gas stations and logistics warehouses. At the end of the week, Russian shelling caused further tragedies in the Kyiv region and Sumy. In the Kyiv region, a woman and three children were killed. In Sumy, a Russian aerial bomb hit a nine-story building, killing a married couple; their seven-year-old son is in intensive care.
Chronicle of Russian Shelling from September 13 to 20, 2026
At the Yahodyn border station in the Volyn region, on September 13, a jet UAV hit an Ukrzaliznytsia locomotive; passengers were evacuated 15 minutes before the strike. Near the checkpoint, a fire broke out at a gas station. Shortly before the attack, a diplomatic train carrying European officials was at the station, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. Russia attacked a railway infrastructure facility in the Vinnytsia region, an enterprise territory in Khmelnytskyi, and damaged an infrastructure facility in the Ternopil region. In the Konotop district of the Sumy region, Russians attacked an electrical grid repair team's vehicle with a drone: a driver-energy worker was killed, and his colleague was injured. In the Donetsk region, three civilians were killed in one day, two of them in Kramatorsk, which was under aerial bomb strikes throughout the day: multi-story residential buildings, private houses, a fire station, a gas station, a shopping center, and infrastructure facilities were damaged, with at least 11 people injured; another civilian was killed in Druzhkivka; four rescuers were injured due to a hit on a fire and rescue station building. In the Kherson region, the occupiers killed two civilians; in Kherson, an enemy drone destroyed an ambulance, two medical workers were injured, and a female patient was successfully taken to the hospital.
At midnight on September 14, in Kherson, two Shahed UAVs damaged an administrative building and surrounding residential houses; in the morning, a drone strike on a car killed a man. The enemy struck Izium with missiles and aerial bombs: a 26-year-old man was killed, 12 people were injured, including a two-month-old infant and three teenagers; private houses, a cafe, and cars were damaged and destroyed; in the region, enemy FPV drones attacked civilian cars, injuring two men. In Velykyi Burluk, two shopping pavilions selling household goods caught fire. In the Donetsk region, three civilians were killed in one day—in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkivka. Sloviansk suffered strikes from FAB-250s, Molniya-2 UAVs, and FPV drones: two men were injured, and at least 23 private houses, one multi-story building, a shop, and vehicles were damaged. In Kramatorsk, the adversary repeatedly bombed a bridge. In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, an attack by "banderoles" on agricultural enterprise warehouses killed three people and injured 15 others, six of whom were hospitalized; administrative buildings, shops, residential houses, and cars were damaged. In the Sumy region, a 14-year-old boy was among the injured.
On the night of September 15 and in the morning, the enemy struck the private sector of Sloviansk: two people were killed, a 14-year-old boy was hospitalized with injuries, and houses were destroyed and damaged. The occupiers launched a massive attack with guided aerial bombs on central Izium, damaging residential areas and administrative buildings, and causing fires; 11 people were injured, three of whom were hospitalized. In Kherson, a woman was killed in the Korabelny district as a result of a drone attack. In the Mykolaiv region, a man was injured, and agricultural machinery was damaged. In Sumy, the occupiers struck a residential sector, causing a fire in a house and an outbuilding; a child was among the injured. In Volyn, a diesel locomotive caught fire following a Russian strike.
In Kherson, on the night of September 16, a car caught fire following a strike on hospital grounds; in the morning, Russian drones attacked a multi-story building in the city center, causing a fire in an apartment and killing a local resident. In the Mykolaiv region, enemy UAVs thrice attacked the Kyiv–Mykolaiv passenger train; thanks to the timely evacuation of 168 passengers, no one was hurt. During the attack, shrapnel damaged a power line, cutting power to 18 settlements; a warehouse building was damaged in the Voznesensk district. In the Kharkiv region, a 17-year-old boy was injured. In the Donetsk region, two civilians were killed; during the day, Russians shelled the center of Sloviansk with MLRS, damaging a Nova Poshta branch and destroying a private house, with two people injured. In the Cherkasy region, UAV debris destroyed a residential house. In the Poltava region, a drone hit an industrial facility; energy infrastructure was also targeted. Russians heavily shelled the Sumy hromada with guided aerial bombs, hitting an industrial zone and a private sector: two residential houses were destroyed and ten were damaged, an educational institution sustained damage, cars caught fire, a severely wounded man died in the hospital, and ten other people were injured, including two children.
As a result of a UAV attack before dawn on September 17, the railway station building in Berestyn, Kharkiv region, sustained serious damage; three private houses and a storage facility were also damaged. In Kharkiv, a shopping center building caught fire, injuring a female employee. In the Poltava district, the enemy hit an infrastructure facility, setting a warehouse ablaze. Sloviansk suffered an airstrike and shelling from Smerch MLRS: three private houses were destroyed, 16 private houses and two multi-story buildings were damaged, four people were injured, and one person was hospitalized. In the Chernihiv region, a building on the grounds of a farm caught fire. In the Sumy region, four civilians were injured; a 17-year-old youth died in the hospital after being blown up by an explosive object. In the Kherson region, two civilian men were killed.
On the night of September 18, the enemy launched a massive UAV strike on Konotop, Sumy region: residential buildings, two educational institutions, two medical facilities, railway infrastructure, and business facilities were damaged; a gas station was damaged in Shostka. In the Zhytomyr region, the enemy attacked an industrial park, killing two people and injuring two others. In Kramatorsk, an airstrike on the private sector killed two people and injured two more; in Sloviansk, the adversary struck a single neighborhood three times with FAB-250s, injuring ten people and damaging dozens of private and multi-apartment houses, a Nova Poshta branch, an administrative building, and pavilions at the Pryvokzalny market; private households and a medical facility were also damaged in the settlements of Torets and Bylbasivka. Russians attacked a suburban electric train with jet UAVs at a station in the Novovodolazka hromada, Kharkiv region: two cars caught fire, a 40-year-old man was killed, and seven passengers were injured. In the Kherson region, an FPV drone strike sparked a fire in an educational facility; in the village of Tekstylne, a drone attack killed two people; in Kherson, a drone drop damaged several service vehicles on the grounds of a city hospital.
On the night of September 19, the enemy struck Sumy with guided aerial bombs, with one hit occurring between the third and fourth floors of a nine-story residential building: a married couple was killed, and ten other people were injured, including three children—notably, the deceased couple's seven-year-old son is in intensive care. The victims were employees of the Sumy City Council. In the Shostka hromada, FPV drone attacks on civilian transport killed four people. In Balakliia, Kharkiv region, a nighttime UAV attack on the private sector resulted in four dead and three injured; during the day, the enemy struck with a missile, damaging five private houses, shops, a garage, and an administrative building, with a 14-year-old boy injured. In Kharkiv, a multi-story building and a warehouse building were damaged. An airstrike on an enterprise in Sloviansk injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen private houses; a fire broke out in a nine-story building in the Kramatorsk district. In the Mykolaiv region, an administrative building, a private house, and a multi-apartment building were damaged, and a man was injured by an FPV drone attack. In the Kherson region, three people died, including a 71-year-old clergyman killed in a Russian FPV drone attack on a monastery, which also injured four priests; the enemy launched a missile strike on the center of Kherson.
In the Sumy region, on September 20, three people were injured, with extensive damage reported across local communities. In the Chernihiv region, Russian forces struck a motorcyclist with an FPV drone; the injured man was taken to the hospital. In the Kharkiv region, five people were injured; over the week, Russian forces twice shelled the Lozova Horse Factory, completely destroying the feed supplies stored for the winter, Suspilne Kharkiv reported. In the Vinnytsia region, a Russian UAV attack damaged a railway infrastructure facility. Over the course of the week, Russian forces launched more than 2,000 attack UAVs against Ukraine (most of them jet-powered), 1,700 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles of various types.
Odesa Region
Throughout the week, Odesa and the surrounding region suffered systematic, massive attacks, resulting in deaths, injuries, and the destruction of civilian, port, and industrial infrastructure.
On Sunday, September 13, an enemy attack on Odesa continued from early morning, damaging a multi-story building, private houses, two educational institutions, storage and utility structures, a children's sanatorium, and an auto service center; a fire broke out on the territory of the Botanical Garden, injuring 24 people, two of whom were children.
On the night of September 15, the enemy launched a massive UAV attack on the region's civilian, port, transport, and logistics infrastructure, damaging dozens of private houses, garages, and cars. During the day, Russians struck a poultry farm, causing a fire, killing some of the poultry, and damaging a roof with solar panels. An enemy strike on the Odesa region on September 16 damaged a residential house and a warehouse building. In Odesa that day, a jet UAV attack killed one person, damaged houses, and set garages and cars ablaze.
The night of September 17 brought another ordeal for the Odesa region as Russians struck residential areas. In Odesa, a Russian drone hit a 19-story building, triggering a fire and destroying ten apartments on the 14th–16th floors; a private house was also completely destroyed, and 11 vehicles were wrecked. Other damage included at least five private homes, a children's educational institution, a dormitory, an outdoor restaurant patio, warehouses, garages, and motor vehicles. Seven people were injured in the nighttime attack, including two children aged four and 13. On the afternoon of September 17, Russians continued shelling the region: jet UAVs damaged the roofs and glazing of private houses and a tanker truck, injuring four people. In the Black Sea, an enemy drone attacked a civilian vessel flying the flag of Tanzania, killing the captain, injuring three sailors, and damaging the vessel's deck and superstructure.
On September 18, a private house was destroyed in the Odesa region, and at least five homes, a lyceum building, greenhouses, cars, an enterprise, storage facilities, and reservoirs were damaged, with three people injured. In Odesa, a disused two-story building was damaged and caught fire. On the afternoon of September 18, the enemy deceitfully struck downtown Odesa twice in succession, hitting an 11-story administrative building; the fire engulfed several floors, window panes were shattered, and the building's facade and nearby vehicles were damaged. The Russians launched a repeat strike while emergency and rescue services were already working at the scene. Overall, the number of casualties rose to 11, including two rescuers. Three people were hospitalized, one in serious condition.
On the night of September 19, the enemy again launched a massive attack on Odesa and the surrounding region. One strike hit the administrative building targeted the previous day, sparking a fire on the upper floors. Damage was also sustained by a two-story educational institution building, two residential houses, a passenger car, and a minibus. Due to extensive shelling, emergency power outages occurred in Odesa's Peresyp and Prymorskyi districts. By the morning of September 19, power engineers had restored electricity to over 60,000 families, while 178,000 families remained without power, DTEK reported. That same day, the enemy army struck a regional enterprise, damaging three fuel tankers.
Zaporizhzhia
Over the week, enemy shelling in the Zaporizhzhia region killed at least five civilians. In particular, during a morning strike on the regional center on September 15, a man was killed, a woman was injured, a fire broke out at an infrastructure facility, and part of the city experienced a temporary blackout.
On the night of September 17, Russians launched a missile strike on industrial facilities in Zaporizhzhia, causing a fire and partial building destruction, and injuring three people. During the day, the enemy attacked transport with FPV drones: eight passengers were injured when a passenger bus was hit right next to a bus stop, while two medics were injured when an ambulance was hit. In the region, a woman was killed and a man was injured when a guided aerial bomb struck a private house.
On the night of September 18, an enemy drone hit a shopping and entertainment complex in Zaporizhzhia, sparking a massive fire covering over 10,000 square meters; one person was injured. Ekonomichna Pravda reported that the Amstor shopping center burned down, having previously suffered a fire from an enemy attack on September 11. In the evening, the Russian army hit an infrastructure facility, starting a fire.
Since the morning of September 19, Russian troops have been terrorizing Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding region with FPV drones, striking civilian infrastructure, roadways, and emergency services. On the Zaporizhzhia–Donetsk highway, an FPV drone hit a truck, injuring the driver, who was hospitalized. During another attack in the regional center, a drone exploded near a car wash, starting a fire and damaging several passenger cars. In the region, occupiers launched a repeat UAV strike on a State Emergency Service unit extinguishing a residential house fire after shelling, damaging two fire and rescue vehicles.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
On September 14, one person was killed and six were injured in Pavlohrad due to shelling, with vehicles wrecked, while infrastructure was damaged in Kryvyi Rih. The following day, September 15, two men were injured in the Nikopol district, with educational facilities, an administrative building, homes, and cars damaged. In Kryvyi Rih, a UAV strike damaged a non-residential building and injured a man, while in the Synelnykove district, a private house was destroyed and an elderly woman was hospitalized.
On September 16, Russians attacked the Nikopol district with drones, damaging an apartment building. When a drone hit a commuter bus, five people died on the spot, at least seven others were injured, and one woman is in serious condition. In the Kamianske district on September 17, three people were killed and one was injured; four civilians were injured in the Nikopol district, where a Day of Mourning was declared for those killed the previous day.
On September 18, enterprises were damaged and two men were injured in Dnipro; additionally, a man who was severely wounded during shelling on September 10 died in the hospital. On September 19, two casualties were again recorded in the Nikopol district, including a 54-year-old man in serious condition, and a shopping center and infrastructure were damaged. In Pavlohrad, an outpatient clinic was damaged and a fire broke out.
In Dnipro, on September 19, enemy attacks caused fires in storage facilities, damaging a shopping center and apartment buildings. Five people were injured, two of whom were hospitalized in moderate condition. Ukrainska Pravda clarified that the Novyi Kontynent shopping center in Dnipro caught fire overnight into September 20 as a result of the Russian attack. Fires also raged in the Dnipro district. The enemy hit food warehouses in Kryvyi Rih with a drone, causing a fire.
Kyiv Region
Throughout September 15, Russian forces launched a massive jet UAV strike on Kyiv. In the Darnytsia and Holosiivskyi districts, enemy drones struck gas stations, causing heavy smoke. In the Solomianskyi district, a hit on a non-residential building was recorded, along with debris falling onto a garage cooperative, a courtyard, and the roof of a residential building; one UAV fell into a body of water. In the Obolon district, storage facilities came under attack. In the Sviatoshynskyi district, five cars and a non-residential building on the territory of a garage cooperative burned down due to hits. In total, 12 people were injured in the capital that day, six were hospitalized, and one person died in the hospital.
On the morning of September 16, in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district, a warehouse building caught fire due to a hit and falling debris from an enemy UAV, after which the fire spread to neighboring structures. Rescuers extinguished the blaze; one person was injured and hospitalized. In the Holosiivskyi district, a UAV struck a non-residential building; as reported by the SES, a higher education institution building sustained damage, where a minor fire occurred.
Ukrainska Pravda reported that on the morning of September 16, a fire resulting from a Russian attack completely destroyed a warehouse belonging to the Olena Zelenska Foundation, which stored a significant volume of humanitarian aid for hospitals and schools, including generators, medical equipment, home appliances, and educational devices. Additionally, in Kyiv, a warehouse containing props for Kvartal 95 Studio was destroyed, burning set decorations and costumes collected and used by the team during filming over twenty years.
As a result of another ballistic attack on the capital overnight into September 17 and repeated daytime UAV strikes, at least 20 people were injured, including two children aged 10 and 12, with five people remaining in hospitals. Destruction and damage were recorded in the Darnytsia, Dniprovskyi, Solomianskyi, Podilskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts: windows were blown out in at least five residential buildings, a school, and a lyceum; administrative and office buildings, non-residential premises, gas stations, storage facilities, and cars—including an ambulance—were damaged and destroyed. In the Podilskyi district, an administrative building caught fire due to a repeated strike. Infrastructure at the Mykilska Slobidka ring railway station was damaged, forcing service restrictions on the Kyiv City Express ring railway along the Darnytsia–Pochaina section.
As a result of enemy attacks on the Kyiv Region, facilities were damaged in the Bila Tserkva, Boryspil, Brovary, Bucha, Vyshhorod, Obukhiv, and Fastiv districts. In the Fastiv district, a mother and two young children were killed due to shelling; in the Vyshhorod district, an injured child died in the hospital. At least nine civilians were injured, including four children. Among the wounded was a family in the Fastiv district—two adults and three children—with the father and children hospitalized; a six-year-old girl in the Bucha district also suffered acoustic trauma.
Throughout the week, Russians purposefully targeted industrial and logistics facilities in the capital region; specifically, fires raged in an office and logistics complex warehouse in the Bucha district, in warehouses in the Boryspil district, and in a manufacturing and warehouse building in the Vyshhorod district; a building housing Kyivstar mobile operator equipment was also damaged. Significant destruction occurred in the residential sector, and a municipal institution, a garage facility, and transport were also damaged. The greatest extent of damage over the weekend occurred in the Fastiv district, affecting residential houses, manufacturing and utility premises, and an enterprise.
Contributors to this report:
Researcher and author: Yana Yevmenova
Photo editor: Marusia Maruzhenko
Copy editor: Yulia Futei
