On September 23, the anti-aircraft gunners of the Air Command "South" of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an Iranian-made multi-purpose drone Mohajer-6 for the first time in Ukraine.
At a meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal emphasized the need for international pressure on Russia to continue the "grain initiative" and Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea ports.
The exhumation of those killed by Russian invaders and buried in mass graves in Izium, Kharkiv region, has been completed. A total of 447 bodies have been found.
In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian law enforcement officers have discovered 18 sites, where Russian invaders used tortures against Ukrainians, and identified 1,000 Russian war criminals.
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled enemy attacks near the Kharkiv region’s Kupiansk and the Donetsk region’s Zaitseve and Novomykhailivka.
The Ukrainian military managed to partially drive Russian invaders out of the temporarily occupied areas as soon as they received Western weapons, namely artillery systems.
Exhumation procedures, taking place in the forest near the Kharkiv region’s Izium, are near completion. A total of 436 bodies of those who had fallen victims to the Russian armed aggression were recovered.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleksiy Makeyev as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Federal Republic of Germany.
The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine confirmed that there were cases of executions and ill-treatment by the Russian military in Bucha, Kyiv region.
On Friday, the Russian invaders directed three Shahed-136 kamikaze drones to Odesa. One of the drones was destroyed by the Ukrainian air defense forces.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has discussed financial support and reconstruction of Ukraine with World Bank Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg and World Bank Vice President Anna Bjerde.
President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that Russia has caused a humanitarian disaster in Ukraine due to hatred of freedom, and called on world figures, companies and foundations to join the newly created Olena Zelenska Foundation.