President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visits brigades in the Donetsk region, 18 September 2025. Credit: Office of the President of Ukraine. President of Ukraine says 160 square kilometres liberated in the Pokrovsk and Dobropillia areas. Russian losses since the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive – in the Pokrovsk area alone, in these past weeks – are already more than 2,500. According to open source intelligence, Russian forces continued offensive operations in the Pokrovsk direction on 18 September but did not make confirmed advances. In this specific area, Zelenskyy stated that Russian losses since the start of this counteroffensive – in the Pokrovsk area alone, in the past few weeks – are already more than 2,500, of which over 1,300 Russians have been killed.