Ukraine’s General Staff on Sept. 28 recorded 2,090 Russian casualties over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily total since February 2022, according to Britain’s Defence Intelligence.
The figure covers both killed and wounded troops, the intelligence update dated Sept. 29 said. Three earlier daily totals topped 2,000, all recorded in 2024. Another 1,960 casualties were recorded on Sept. 16, 2026.
Russian casualties have stayed high since the summer, the update said. Defence Intelligence assessed that this was “highly likely” because Russia is maintaining the intensity of its operations in the fortress belt region, particularly near the Ukrainian stronghold of Dobropillia.
The casualty figures come from Ukraine’s military and were relayed by British intelligence. They could not be independently verified.
Strikes Across 10 Regions
Separately, overnight Russian strikes hit 10 Ukrainian regions, damaging homes, data centers, energy facilities and a Kyiv railway depot, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
In Kyiv, the attack damaged the depot at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway station, along with data centers, business centers and residential buildings, Zelenskyy wrote on X. In the Odesa region, strikes hit an educational institution, a student dormitory and two foreign vessels.
The Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Volyn and Rivne regions also came under attack, according to Zelenskyy’s post. Energy facilities, substations, civilian businesses and residential buildings were damaged in those areas.
Neither Ukrainian post gave casualty figures for the overnight strikes, and the damage reports could not be independently verified.
International Reaction
In separate posts, Moldovan President Maia Sandu and Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker said Russian strikes had hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. It was not clear from those posts whether they referred to the same attack Zelenskyy described.
Sandu wrote that civilians were killed in strikes on civilian targets in Kyiv, Dnipro and elsewhere, though she gave no death toll. Stocker’s post said a clinic in Kyiv’s city center was also hit and called deliberate attacks on civilians a violation of international law.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed full solidarity with Estonia, which he said had just attributed to Russia responsibility for a fire targeting a defense sector company. He described the growing number of such acts as a dangerous escalation by Russia.
Air Defense Support
Ukrainian air defenses carried out successful interceptions overnight, including of ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy wrote. He thanked the United States and Norway for the NASAMS air defense system and missiles for it, and France and Germany for a recent package of air defense missiles.
“Against the backdrop of Russia’s daily escalation, it is important that the protection of life receive continuous support and that such packages continue to arrive.”
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