Ukrainian forces killed Colonel Oleksandr Isaev, the commander of the Russian 8th Artillery Regiment (18th CAA), with an FPV drone strike in occupied Kherson Oblast.
Multiple high-reliability sources confirm the core facts of this event.
How we assess confidence →Entities
Source Reports
Ukrainian forces reportedly struck and killed the commander of the Russian 8th Artillery Regiment (18th Combined Arms Army [CAA], Southern Military District [SMD])) Colonel Oleksandr Isaev in occupied Kherson Oblast on September 19.
On 19 September, the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organisations reported a critical humanitarian situation in occupied Oleshky.
Food was last officially delivered to Oleshky on 26 May and there are now cases of families eating dogs.
Police evacuated the body of a 72-year-old clergyman who was killed in a Russian drone attack on a men’s monastery in the Novorayska community.
The monastery’s oldest resident, Monk Moses, was seriously wounded and died from his severe injuries.
Russian FPV drone killed a 71-year-old priest and injured four others in Kherson Monastery.
Ukrainian defenders eliminated Oleksandr Isaiev, commander of the Russian Armed Forces’ 8th Artillery Regiment, in the Kherson region on 19 September.
Share This Event
Know another source?
If you've seen this event covered by another news outlet, submit it for editorial review. Approved sources improve our confidence ratings.
This event is already verified. Additional sources further strengthen the record.
Extraction metadata
Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-23-2026