Kyiv plans to review the procedures for managing traffic on the capital’s bridges during air raid alerts. City officials, in collaboration with the military, are to develop an updated protocol and submit it to the government.

On August 28, Russia conducted a combat-training launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the warheads successfully hit their designated targets in Kamchatka.

A Russian jet-powered drone set a flight range record, traveling approximately 960 km from its launch point. According to OSINT analysts, this is one of the longest recorded flights of this type of UAV.

Russia continues to recruit foreigners to fight in the war against Ukraine. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has obtained documents regarding at least eight Indonesian citizens who were recruited into the ranks of the Russian occupation army.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Chisinau, where he met with Moldovan President Maia Sandu

On the afternoon of August 26, a series of powerful explosions rocked occupied Donetsk. According to preliminary reports, one of the city’s districts was hit by a series of rocket strikes.

Russia is deliberately attacking border crossing points on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border in an attempt to disrupt transportation links between the two countries and destabilize the region.

On August 24 and during the night of August 25, 2026, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces launched strikes against a number of Russian military targets. Among the targets hit were electronic warfare systems, a satellite communications station, fuel, lubricant, and ammunition depots, as well as a Russian fighter jet.

The High Anti-Corruption Court has imposed a preventive measure on Iryna Mudriy, the former deputy head of the Office of the President, who is implicated in the “Forest Gump” high-level corruption case.

On the afternoon of August 24, Russian troops carried out an airstrike on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. Eight people were wounded in the city following the explosions. Across the region, 11 people were wounded.