Damage from overnight Russian KAB glide bomb strikes in Kramatorsk, September 23, 2026. Ten residential buildings, an Orthodox church, and a car were damaged. Photo courtesy of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS), Donetsk Oblast.Russian drones struck Kyiv throughout September 23, killing two people and injuring 45, according to Klitschko, the city’s mayor. Strikes hit gas stations, warehouses, a business center, and the area around Kyiv’s central railway station, where the Shayba railway market caught fire. The Darnytsia pharmaceutical plant was also struck. Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation confirmed that about 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region lost stable internet service.In Kyiv Oblast, drones damaged private houses, warehouses, an administrative building, and infrastructure in the Bucha, Fastiv, Obukhiv, and Vyshhorod districts, injuring three men in Fastiv district. Two people were injured in Zhytomyr Oblast.In Sumy Oblast, the regional administration reported on the morning of September 23 that Russian forces carried out more than 40 attacks on 15 settlements over the previous day, injuring a woman. Around 7 a.m., strikes hit four locations in Sumy city’s Kovpakivskyi district, damaging homes, an educational facility, railway infrastructure, and the gas network. Over the full day of September 23, the administration recorded nearly 60 strikes on 22 settlements, with 10 people injured, including a 17-year-old boy.Russian forces hit Kharkiv and eight settlements in Kharkiv Oblast with seven guided bombs and 128 drones, killing a man in Kharkiv and injuring 14 people, including an 11-year-old boy in Izium. Strikes damaged apartment buildings, private homes, car dealerships, power lines, and gas stations.In Donetsk Oblast, regional military administration head Vadym Filashkin reported four killed and 10 injured on September 22, with deaths in Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Stepanivka, and Spassko-Mykhailivka. On September 23, Russian attacks killed eight people and injured 19. Five were killed and six injured in Oleksandrivka, two killed and 10 injured in Kramatorsk, and one killed and three injured in Sloviansk. Filashkin said 103 civilian structures were damaged, including 81 residential buildings.Russian forces attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast more than 10 times with glide bombs, artillery, and drones, injuring a man and damaging infrastructure, private houses, and farm machinery.Zaporizhzhia Oblast head Ivan Fedorov reported 734 strikes on 52 settlements over the previous day, including 21 airstrikes, killing one person and injuring three. Late on September 22, a strike set a shopping center in Zaporizhzhia’s Pivdennyi district on fire. The blaze covered 6,000 square meters and injured two men. The strike came one day after Russian drones hit the city’s Intrade shopping center.In Kherson Oblast, Russian attacks on Kherson city and surrounding settlements killed two people and injured eight, damaging four apartment buildings, six private houses, a gas station, and cars.Russian drones struck port and civilian infrastructure in Odesa Oblast overnight, hitting a cargo ship flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and killing its captain, a Ukrainian citizen. Warehouses storing medicines, household goods, and food were hit twice.Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported 1,560 Russian personnel losses over the past day, along with three tanks, 13 armored fighting vehicles, 32 artillery systems, and 1,426 drones. Ukrainian losses were not disclosed.At the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha delivered a joint statement backed by 51 countries, calling on Russia to agree to a full ceasefire and enter meaningful negotiations.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the General Assembly that Russia is recruiting citizens of 47 countries to fight in its war and urged their governments to keep them out of it. “Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die,” Zelensky said.After meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Putin has been invited to the G20 summit in Miami in December. “We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept,” Rubio told reporters. The Kremlin said it is considering the invitation.The same day, a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter flying from Kaliningrad violated Polish airspace north of Braniewo at 11:08 a.m. local time, penetrating about 300 meters for 42 seconds, Poland’s Operational Command said. Poland scrambled fighter jets and placed ground-based air defenses on alert.The post Ukraine Field Report: Russia Kills Eight in Donetsk Oblast, Wounds 45 in Kyiv as 51 Nations Demand Ceasefire appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.