Throughout August 14 and into the night of August 15, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out strikes against a number of key military targets belonging to the Russian occupiers in the Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

On Saturday, August 15, Russian troops launched an attack on Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of the shelling, two civilians were injured, residential buildings were damaged, and a fire broke out.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has drafted departmental orders to abolish border zones in certain areas of the Rostov and Voronezh regions that border the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as between occupied Crimea and the Kherson region.

On the night of Friday, August 15, Russian forces launched a drone strike on the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District in the Odesa Region. As a result of the attack, a shoe factory building was damaged, and several fires broke out.

Over the past 24 hours, on August 14, Russian troops launched massive strikes on Kharkiv and other towns and villages in the region. As a result of the enemy shelling, six people were injured and suffered acute stress reactions.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupation forces launched massive strikes on the territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv regions. The enemy used aircraft, artillery, and hundreds of drones of various types in the attacks. As a result of the shelling, more than 30 people were wounded, including a child.

On the night of August 14–15, Russian sources reported a strike on the Savasleika military airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, where MiG-31K fighters—carriers of “Kinzhal” aeroballistic missiles—are based. In Samara, there was also reportedly a strike on one of the industrial facilities.

Protests against the resignation of Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister have been ongoing for 30 days now.

In the Mykolaiv region, police and the Territorial Coordination Center detained a driver from the Kherson Rapid Response Unit of the Red Cross while he was evacuating civilians. As a result, evacuation trips from Kherson have been temporarily suspended.

According to a new survey, only 5% of internally displaced persons have received housing compensation, even though 57% of IDPs lost their homes in the occupied territories or in the combat zone.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose personal and economic sanctions against individuals, companies, and vessels involved in the illegal export of Ukrainian grain.

The Russians attacked Kherson and the Kherson region with drones and aerial bombs; several neighborhoods are without power.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Moscow sees no point in returning to the 2022–2023 version of the “Black Sea Initiative” and suspending hostilities in the Black Sea. Sergey Lavrov also commented on Turkey’s proposal.

In the Polish capital, a Ukrainian woman was injured during a confrontation with a group of Polish adults. They allegedly reacted negatively to her Ukrainian accent and knocked out two of her front teeth. 

Russia uses about 220 guided bombs every day against Ukrainian communities near the front lines. Despite international sanctions, the Russian defense industry continues to produce and modernize these weapons.