[Korrespondent] 23:53 As a result of attacks on the critical infrastructure of Kharkiv, one person died - an employee of the enterprise. Rescuers continue to search, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. At another facility in the Chuguevsky district, another person was hospitalized - the worker received an explosive injury.
22:54 Power supply has been restored in most settlements, local authorities report.
21:51 On the evening of September 11, the Russians fired 11 cruise missiles into eastern Ukraine, nine of which were shot down by air defense, the Air Command of Skhid reported. In particular, units of the air command Skhid shot down seven cruise missiles in the Dnepropetrovsk region, of which five were X-101s, two were Caliber. Two more missiles were destroyed by Air Force units in the Poltava region.
21:47 Zelensky said that Kharkiv and Donetsk regions were completely de-energized, partially Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy: "Russian terrorists remain terrorists and hit critical infrastructure. No military facilities, only the goal is to leave people without light and heat."
In turn, Podolyak said that "direct deliberate strikes on critical civilian infrastructure, in particular on the largest Kharkiv CHPP-5, are an unconditional manifestation of Russia's terrorism and its desire to massively leave civilians without light and heat. Such is the cowardly" answer "for flight own army from the battlefield."
21:24 In connection with the shelling of infrastructure in the Sloboda region, a number of trains from / to Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava are expected to be delayed, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
21:19 The leadership of the Western Group of the RF Armed Forces has been removed from command due to the successful offensive of the Ukrainian forces, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. Now this grouping will be headed by Lieutenant-General Alexander Lapin, commander of the Center grouping of troops, together with his headquarters. The operational staff moved from Luhansk to the command post of the Western group.
To date, a personnel decision on the further service of Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov is under consideration. He was appointed to the post of commander of the Western Military District on August 26, 2022, where he replaced Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevy (he was in office for three weeks).
21:15 In the Sumy region, there is no electricity supply in 135 settlements of the Akhtyrsky district. Also, in some settlements in the region there is no water, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
20:56 The occupiers attacked the critical infrastructure of Kharkiv and the region, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. In some settlements there is no electricity and water supply, fires broke out at the places of impact.
20:53 The Pavlograd city council reported that air defense had worked in the city, there was also a hit in an infrastructure facility outside the city. Some streets were left without electricity.
20:27 The territory of the Dergachev community is completely de-energized due to the fact that the invaders hit critical infrastructure facilities, the city council said.
20:03 In the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region, air defense forces shot down an enemy missile, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin.
18:52 In the Kherson region, the invaders retreated from their positions in some settlements, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the evening report . Also, the Russians hurriedly left Svatovo in the Luhansk region in four KamAZ trucks, 20 Tigr armored vehicles and more than 20 stolen cars of local residents.
18:37 The backup power line to the Zaporozhye NPP has been restored, the IAEA reports. According to the organization, the station is now provided with external electricity needed for reactor cooling and other safety functions.
18:14 Reznikov said in an interview with the Financial Times that it is too early for Ukraine to celebrate a victory - it is necessary to protect the vast territory that it has recaptured in recent days. According to him, the lightning offensive went "much better than expected," but then comes the time for serious work.
“The counteroffensive liberates the territory, and after that you have to control it and be ready to defend,” the minister explained, adding that the Ukrainian troops were tired after the six-day attack, although morale was at its best. "The Ukrainians wanted to launch this counteroffensive, we needed this counteroffensive, and this is a sign that Russia can be defeated," Reznikov said. However, he warned that Russian forces could launch a counterattack.
17:41 The Russians this afternoon simultaneously hit three cities in the Donetsk region - Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Nikolaevka, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. Industrial facilities, high-rise buildings, a gas station were damaged, the building of the TsNAP was destroyed. At least one wounded is known.
17:13 Putin spoke on the phone with Macron. According to the Kremlin, the parties discussed the situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP - in particular, "mutual readiness was expressed for non-politicized interaction on the situation around the ZNPP with the participation of the IAEA." They also discussed food security - "the position was confirmed that the grain exported through the Black Sea ports should be sent primarily to developing countries."
16:22 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in daily reports showed its retreat from the Kharkiv region:
15:33 The occupiers are fleeing towards Luhansk and Russia, at the checkpoint in Stanytsia Luhanska there is a queue 12 km long, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaydai: more active, because both in Kremennaya and Starobelsky districts, Ukrainian flags were raised over administrative buildings or on electric towers. And, by the way, they were not removed - either the occupiers left, or the collaborators are afraid."
According to Gaidai, now the Armed Forces of Ukraine intend to finally recapture Izyum and Liman, and then take up the de-occupation of the Lugansk region.
15:24 The Russian media write with reference to the regional authorities that 13,000 "refugees" came out through the border checkpoints on the border with the Kharkiv region in three days.
15:16 Against the backdrop of the retreat of the Russian army, in several aviation garrisons of the Russian aerospace forces, pilots are discussing escaping the country and ways to hide from international justice. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Russian criminals plan to emigrate to the countries of South America.
15:12 Moscow suspended preparations for "referendums" due to the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive, Meduza writes, citing sources close to the Kremlin. According to them, the Kremlin-connected political technologists who worked in the Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions have already been recalled to Russia, while they still remain in the Kherson region.
15:07 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that there were no more long queues at the Ukrainian-Russian border, at night everyone who wanted to cross the border in the direction of Russia was able to do it. According to Gladkov, "thousands of people" crossed the border over the past 24 hours, most of them went to their relatives in their vehicles. Today, there are 1342 people in 27 temporary accommodation centers in the region. "We are preparing to send 500, 200 and 50 of them to other regions," Gladkov said.
The governor of the neighboring Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that the authorities had deployed 19 temporary accommodation centers, where 1,700 "forced migrants" live.
14:42 In the village of Kazachya Lopan, Kharkiv region, the flag of Ukraine was installed, the Dergachev City Council reported. Earlier, Dergachevsky mayor Vyacheslav Zadorenko reported that the Russian military had begun evacuating the village: "According to our information, Rashists are fleeing from Cossack Lopan to Belgorod, going home and evacuating the local population. We are waiting for official information from the General Staff."
14:36 Kyivstar announced that it had restored communication in Balakliya.
14:17 Lavrov said that Russia does not refuse negotiations with Ukraine, "but the more the process is delayed, the more difficult it will be to agree."
13:43 The command of the Russian troops is probably planning another provocative shelling of Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to blame Ukraine for this. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the units of the 94th division of the Russian Guard, stationed on the territory of the ZNPP, received a command at 14:00 to go into the shelter and stay there "until further notice."
12:49 Russians struck at Voznesensk of the Nikolaev area, at least two people are wounded, the head of a regional council Anna Zamazeeva reported.
12:35 An enemy missile was shot down over the Dnieper by air defense forces, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
11:57 Zaluzhny said that since the beginning of September, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have returned more than 3,000 sq. km. At the same time, in the Kharkiv direction, Ukrainian forces began to move not only to the south and east, but also to the north - 50 km remain before reaching the state border.
The Commander-in-Chief published photographs with the results of the work of several units of the Armed Forces, which liberated the villages of Bayrak, Novaya Gusarovka, Shchurovka and Olkhovatka. "The capture of the powerful fortified areas of the Russian troops, which they proudly named Moscow, Omsk and St. Petersburg, made it possible to launch a counterattack on Balakleya, Izyum and Kupyansk," the commander-in-chief wrote.
11:49 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region broke through the lines of the Russians to a depth of 70 km and captured more than 3,000 square meters. km of territory over the past five days is more than Russian troops have managed to occupy in all operations since April. According to analysts, this operation destroys the axis of the Russian offensive in the northern Donbass.
According to them, the Russian troops are not conducting a controlled withdrawal, but hastily fleeing to avoid encirclement in Izyum. The liberation of this city, ISW believes, will be the most significant Ukrainian military achievement since the Battle of Kyiv in March, removing the threat of a Russian offensive in northwestern Donetsk Oblast along the E40 highway.
11:34 In the morning, in the Uman region of the Cherkasy region, air defense forces shot down a Russian missile during an air raid. The wreckage fell on a private house, people were not injured, said the head of the OVA, Igor Taburets.
11:05 a.m., the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the Chkalovskoe village in the Kharkiv region - thanks to the 14th separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Roman the Great, Zelensky said.
10:23 The death toll as a result of enemy shelling in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, has risen to six people, the mayor of the city, Ruslan Trebushkin, said.
10:04 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 11th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kharkov and Donetsk directions.
- personnel - about 52,650 (+400) people liquidated,
- tanks - 2154 (+18),
- armored combat vehicles - 4617 (+33),
- artillery systems - 1263 (+4),
- MLRS - 311 (+0),
- air defense systems - 162 (+0),
- aircraft - 242 (+3),
- helicopters - 213 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 902 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 216 (+1),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 3445 (+19),
- special equipment - 117 (+1).
09:58 In the Kherson region, Russians are tightening filtration measures. According to the first deputy head of the regional council, Yuri Sobolevsky, there are a lot of reports of searches - primarily in the areas of crossings and near large military facilities they are looking for spotters and partisans.
09:47 In the Donetsk region over the past day, ten civilians were killed by Russian shelling: four in Pokrovsk, three in Krasnogorovka, two in Bakhmut and one in Raygorodok. Another 19 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:42 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, five people were injured from enemy shelling in the Chuguevsky, Izyumsky and Kupyansky districts, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
09:28 In the Nikolaev area, except for the regional center, Bereznegovatoye village suffered from the Russian attacks today - five people were injured. Residential buildings have been damaged and destroyed, and the search for another person is ongoing, said Vitaly Kim, head of the OVA. In addition, at night, according to preliminary information, air defense worked and two enemy missiles were shot down in the Voznesensky district.
09:02 The enemy launched a missile attack at night on residential areas in the center of the Dnieper. One person was wounded, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. In Nikopol, as a result of enemy shelling, three people were injured. Also, the Russians hit the Marganets community - preliminary, without wounded and destruction.
08:37 Zaporozhye NPP has been completely shut down , Energoatom reported. Today at 03:41 ZNPP power unit No. 6 was disconnected from the power grid. Preparations are underway for its cooling and transfer to the safest - cold - state.
08:00 APU repelled enemy attacks in the areas of settlements Sosnovka, Mayorsk, Nikolaevka Second, Zaitsevo, Veselaia Dolina, Soledar, Bakhmut, Sands, Pervomayskoye and Novomikhailovka. Because of the losses, the Russians are planning to carry out "mobilization" in the temporarily occupied territories, the General Staff reports in the morning summary .
07:55 Tonight Russians fired at Nikolaev, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported. According to preliminary data, nine people were injured.
07:16 The Cabinet of Ministers will attract an additional $530 million from the World Bank. According to the Ministry of Finance, the loan was provided on preferential terms under the guarantees of Great Britain and Denmark. The money will go, in particular, to the salaries of public sector workers, pensions, medical guarantees.
06:11 NYT writes that current and former US officials praised Ukrainian preparations for a counteroffensive. The publication notes that the decision to advertise their counteroffensive in the south before striking in the northeast is a standard disorientation device used by US special forces who have been training Ukrainians since the occupation of Crimea in 2014.
Over the summer, Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts as they began planning a counteroffensive. Senior US officials declined to say what details of the counteroffensive plan Ukraine shared or how much advice the United States gave. But one official said the Americans were constantly discussing with Kyiv how Ukraine could stop Russia's advance in the east.
02:50 AFU destroyed another ferry crossing in the area of Nova Kakhovka "without the possibility of further use", OK Pivden reported.
00:46 The head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai expects "wonderful news" from the occupied Svatovo, Kremennaya and Rubizhne: "We should not expect that tomorrow we will liberate the entire Lugansk region. But the progress is huge. The fighting is quite heavy, but the occupiers are fleeing from all settlements "In the near future, perhaps even tomorrow, we will hear wonderful news from Svatovo, from Kremennaya, from Rubizhnoye."
According to Gaidai, the OVA received information all day on Saturday about the flight from the region of both the occupiers and the Gauleiters appointed by them.
00:14 During his visit to Kiev, Blinken brought a message from Biden about the need to start negotiations with Putin. Kyiv does not accept the recommendations to start "peace" negotiations with the Russian Federation and demands the complete de-occupation of Donbass and Crimea - several Ukrainian officials said this during the Yalta European Strategy forum secretly held in Kyiv, writes UP. In particular, Reznikov stressed that Ukraine had learned a lot during the war, "including not to trust any talk about peace that our partners offer us."