TUSK BOMBSHELL: Ukraine Losing 27,000 Troops EVERY MONTH. ELECTION DAY IN RUSSIA. MS 2026.09.18

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00:00 — Introduction: top events of the last 12 hours
00:12 — Tusk's bombshell: Ukraine losing 27,000 troops per month
01:05 — Tusk arrives in Ukraine — and Russia holds its fire
01:46 — Russia's quiet night: just 93 drones, lowest numbers of the month
02:49 — Ukraine's answer: 629 drones intercepted on election day morning
03:44 — September 18: Russia's parliament elections begin
04:47 — Zelenskyy's dilemma: prove elections are dangerous — or hold them
05:35 — Kyiv: aftermath of a ballistic strike on railway infrastructure
06:05 — Turkish cargo ship badly damaged near the Danube Delta
06:33 — Ukraine admits: Zatoka Bridge crippled — 26-day rail delays
07:19 — Amstor shopping mall reduced to ruins in Zaporizhzhia
08:05 — Dnipro under fire: drones and Dan-T missiles overnight
08:32 — Zaporizhzhia front: Russian counteroffensive begins
09:39 — T-08 road cut: Orikhiv outflanked, no safe evacuation left
11:06 — Last village of the first Druzhkovka defense line captured
12:39 — Veroliubka falls — the gap between Konstantinivka and Chasiv Yar cleared

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 19, 2026.]