🛡️ Defense

Ukrainian forces repelled a roughly platoon-sized Russian mechanized assault near Yablunivka, destroying a tank and an IFV and damaging another IFV.

September 21, 2025 Yablunivka, Donetsk Oblast

Likely Reported by 3 independent sources

Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Censor.NET

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Entities

Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Kostiantynivka (location) Russian Armed Forces (organization) Ukrainian Armed Forces (organization) Russian troops (military_unit) OSGT Dnipro (organization) Russian forces (organization) Dobropillia (location) Lyman (location) Rubtsi (location) Oleksandrivka community (location) Druzhkivka community (location) Kostyantynivka (location) Serhii Horbunov (person) Smerch (weapon_system) FAB-250 (weapon_system) UMPK (weapon_system)

Source Reports

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Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces repelled Russian mechanized assault near Yablunivka

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Four people were killed, and four others were injured in Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Enemy conducted 21 attacks in the Lyman sector trying to penetrate defenses in areas of Hrekivka, Novomykhailivka, Shandryholove, Kolodiazi, Torske and Novoselivka

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:39.402Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-22-2025