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What happened in Ukraine war news on 15 September 2023?
Summary
A look back at the security reports from mid-September 2023, from a new ICC office in Kyiv to strikes around Sevastopol and Enerhodar.
What did the security picture look like on 15 September 2023? The reports available by that date, dated 13 and 14 September, pointed to a legal step in Kyiv and a run of strikes in the south.
On 14 September, the International Criminal Court opened a field office in Kyiv as part of its war crimes investigations. It became the largest ICC office outside its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.
Strikes on Sevastopol
On 13 September, Russia said at least 24 people were injured in Ukrainian missile strikes on Sevastopol, and that two boats were damaged. Ukraine claimed it had destroyed the Russian landing ship Minsk, submarine B-237 and a KC-701-class patrol boat of the Black Sea Fleet.
B-237 is the Rostov-na-Donu, a Project 636.3 diesel-electric attack submarine. It was commissioned on 26 December 2014 and joined Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Drones near Zaporizhzhia
Also on 13 September, Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev said Ukraine had launched a drone strike on Enerhodar, near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. He said all six drones were destroyed. The report came as part of coverage of the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Taken together, the reports from those days showed the war's legal and military tracks moving side by side: the ICC building a larger presence in the Ukrainian capital, while Russia and Ukraine exchanged claims over strikes in Crimea and near the occupied nuclear plant's town.
