Day: September 20, 2025

The post @OSINT_Insider They were not sitting idle before. Remember small drones inside Pakistan when the India Pakistan war was happening. Those kinds of drones were flying way beyond the range from Indian border, which means those were controlled from inside Pakistan by sleeper cells. first appeared on The World Web Times – worldwebtimes.com.

Russian forces conducted one of the largest drone and missile strikes against Ukraine in recent weeks on the night of September 19 to 20. ⬇️

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 8 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai; 32 Kh-101 cruise missiles from Saratov Oblast; and 579 Shahed and decoy drones from the directions of Kursk, Bryansk, and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 2 Iskander-M/KN-32 ballistic missiles and 29 Kh-101 cruise missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defenses downed 552 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that an unspecified number of ballistic and cruise missiles and 23 drones struck ten locations and that drone fragments fell in ten locations.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces conducted a simultaneous strike on targets with large numbers of missiles and drones and that Ukrainian forces used tactical aviation, including F-16s, to intercept the cruise missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russian forces targeted Dnipro City and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast broadly and locations in Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Poltavka, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Kharkiv Oblasts.

Zelensky stated that Russian forces directly struck a high-rise residential building in Dnipro City with a missile equipped with cluster munitions. Footage reportedly shows a Kh-101 cruise missile striking the residential building in Dnipro City, underscoring the need to further bolster Ukraine’s air defense umbrella.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration Head Serhiy Lysak reported that the strike killed one and injured 13 civilians.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office reported that Russian strikes in Khmelnytskyi Oblast killed one and injured three civilians.

Other Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces damaged civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Sumy oblasts. x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1969556450717340066

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) Sep 21, 2025

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, did not inform the White House that her office was revoking the security clearances of 37 people – including top deputies to CIA Director John Ratcliffe – before it happened last month, causing consternation as it resulted in the White House not having an opportunity to closely vet the list before it became public and there appeared to be no paper trail from the president directing the effort, according to The Guardian.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) Sep 21, 2025