The pace of Ukrainian forces’ advance the north-east had thrown Russian forces into a “panic” , Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in his nightly address. The leader of the Moscow-backed administration in Donbas has called for urgent referendums on the region becoming part of Russia . The Kremlin has denied allegations that Russian forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine’s Kharkiv province. [16] Geolocated social media footage confirmed a Ukrainian missile strike against a Russian barracks in Kherson City on September 18. [20] Russian milbloggers claimed that Russian forces repelled Ukrainian attacks near Shchaslyve and Bezimenne (in the Davydiv Brid bridgehead), but ISW cannot verify these reports.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2022 16:57 UTC