Russian claims to control a settlement, while Ukraine claims to repel a Russian military attack.

date
16/09/2025
On the 15th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a war report stating that the Russian military had gained control of the Oligovsky settlement in the Zaporizhzhia region. Over the past day, the Russian military continued to strike Ukrainian troops and equipment in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson directions. On the same day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that as of 10 pm that evening, there had been a total of 173 battles in the frontline area. Ukrainian forces repelled multiple Russian attacks in the Luhansk, Toretsk, and Pokrovsk directions.