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 More than 20 settlements were liberated during active operations in the Kharkiv direction. The Armed Forces wedged into the enemy’s defense to a depth of up to 50 km. Filtration operations are ongoing in a number of settlements. This was announced by the Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov.

He also noted that while conducting offensive actions in the Slovyansk direction, units of the 103rd separate brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces together with units of the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine advanced up to 3 km deep and liberated the village of Ozerne in Donetsk region.

Holding their positions, our military successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kostyantynivka, Dovgenke, Dibrivne, Hryhorivka, Soledar, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Mariinka and Kamianka settlements.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially confirmed the liberation of Balaklia, Kharkiv region, by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Today, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made at least 12 strikes on the airfields, hitting two platoon strongholds, six areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, and two anti-aircraft missile complexes. Our air defense units destroyed two UAVs.

The artillery of the Defense Forces and the partisan movement provided the Russians with logistical support problems in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson Region.

During the day, the enemy hit military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine 4 times with missiles and 15 times with aircraft. To do this, he made up to 20 flights.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians aimed their Grad multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery at the Nikopol district four times. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. The Marganets community was shelled three times. The enterprise was damaged. Specialists work on site. The scale of destruction in the community is being clarified. In the city of Nikopol, 11 private houses and outbuildings near them, several solar power plant panels, and a gymnasium were damaged.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said that the occupiers launched a rocket attack on the town of Kurakhove, hitting a private house and a road. There was no information about the victims. In the Kostyantynivska community, an elevator came under fire - the extent of the damage is being determined.

Today at 10:00 a.m., the occupiers committed another terrorist act in the city of Kharkiv. An administrative building was damaged as a result of a missile attack on the Industrial district of the regional center. Another rocket hit the ground nearby. Two men died. Five people were injured. Oleg Sinegubov, the Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, announced this.

Units of the Special Operations Forces were awarded "For Courage and Bravery". They were handed over and attached to the flags by the commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Viktor Khorenko.

Today in Germany at the US Air Force Base Rammstein, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Yevhen Moysiuk took part in the meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine, which is chaired by the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Britain will hand over 120 tractors to Ukraine. They will speed up the transfer of military equipment, in particular, multiple rocket launchers. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Great Britain, Ben Wallace, following the results of the meeting in the Rammstein format.

Starting from September 19, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will close entry for Russian citizens, including those with Schengen visas issued in other countries.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during an unannounced visit to the city of Kyiv, met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visited the city of Irpin and the "Okhmatdyt" hospital, where Ukrainian children injured as a result of Russian aggression are recovering.